13160b
Seminar
SoSe 16: A Global History of Environmentalism
Nadin Heé
Comments
Even today, environmentalism is often understood as a privilege of the so called global north to protect nature from those in the global south seen as too ignorant or too primitive to care for nature themselves. In the past decades, this notion has been challenged both by historians of environmental history and environmentalists themselves. Correspondingly, in this seminar we will take a closer look at diverse histories of environmentalism that are practiced by a variety of actors across the world. We will discuss how these were determined by different conceptualizations of
nature and environment. We will seek to understand how race, class and global power relations shaped both state and non-state environmental movements. We will explore some of these histories along common themes among various environmentalism's such as conservation of nature or the role of (natural) disasters. Doing so, we will also discuss whether and how the emergence of environmentalisms is entangled with so called globalization, and seek to find a periodization for the phenomenon on a global scale. close
Suggested reading
Ramachandra Guha, Environmentalism: a Global History (New York: Longman, 2000)
14 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2016-04-20 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2016-04-27 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2016-05-04 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2016-05-11 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2016-05-18 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2016-05-25 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2016-06-01 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2016-06-08 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2016-06-15 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2016-06-22 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2016-06-29 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2016-07-06 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2016-07-13 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2016-07-20 12:00 - 14:00