- Questions and Provocations: short abstracts
An African feminist historical perspective on African women and the environment: Lanoi Maloiy, (University of Nairobi & Durham University, honorary fellow)
- This provocation will examine African women’s interaction with the environment across the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial eras. Starting with indigenous women’s interaction with the environment, followed by examination of the colonial administration disruption of Anlu women’s interaction with land in Cameroon. The last case study will be of Wangari Maathai of Kenya and the environmental challenges she tried to resolve during the post-colonial regime of President Moi.
Reflections on the Record – and on Environment and Time: Katarzyna Puzon (Humbolt University, Berlin)
- My contribution will discuss the ways in which the legacy of scientific sound archives challenges temporal imaginaries implicated in the production of environmental knowledge and historymaking, and will reflect on how the story of such devices as the shellac record problematises these practices.
Nature and landscape conservation from a diachronic perspective: comparing the resistance against dam building and wind power in rural Germany: Mario Krämer (Global South Studies Center, University of Cologne)
- My contribution compares nature conservationists’ opposition to wind power in rural Germany with resistance against dam building projects in the early 20th century and explores changing perspectives on the aesthetic value of nature and landscape from a diachronic perspective.
The Uneven Temporalities of Mycogenic Ruins: Anatolijs Venovcevs (University of Oulu)
- The purpose of this presentation is to think about ruins from a mushroom perspective – to reframe the vestiges of the past from anthropogenic to mycogenic ruins. By drawing inspiration from mushrooms that grow on German World War II military sites in Sør-Varanger municipality in northeastern Norway and fieldwork with the local mycology society that studies them, I consider the enfolding, and, at times, contradictory temporalities found within the dark heritage of mycogenic conflict ruins.
online, June 14, 2024
- Organisers: Helen Cornish, Cormac Cleary, Jelena Tošić, Giovanna Parmigiani (NAoH, EnviroAnt)