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Hybrid Cities: Agency, Scale, and Power:A Conversation Between Matthew Gandy, Dorothee Brantz and Chris Otter
No full textThis conversation piece features Dorothee Brantz, Matthew Gandy, Chris Otter, and Mikkel Thelle. Addressing key concepts including hybridity, agency, scale, and power, the conversation revolves around key themes in contemporary urban environmental history and seeks to identify potential analytical directions and connections to pursue prospectively. In doing so, the conversation takes stock of current and potential developments in urban environmental history and environmental humanities generally.</p
Beastly natures : animals, humans and the study of history
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Workshop: How to Write and Conceptualize the History of Youth Cultures (Berlin, 30 June - 1 July 2016)
No full textWorkshop Program: Thursday, 30 June 2016 Technische Universität Berlin, Center for Metropolitanstudies, Hardenbergstraße 16-18, 10623 Berlin 10:00-10:30 AM Welcome Address Dorothee Brantz (Center for Metropolitanstudies) and Felix Fuhg (Humboldt University Berlin) 10:30-12:30 AM Panel I: Driving Forces of Youth Cultures Matthew Worley, University of Reading: 'Suburban relapse: boredom, alienation and despair’ David Wilkinson, Manchester Metropolitan University. ‘Agents of Change’: Post-Punk a..
'Risky Business': Disease, Disaster and the Unintended Consequences of Epizootics in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France and Germany
No full textLivestock diseases have a long history. Epizootics like cattle plague and foot and mouth disease have always been a great threat to the well being of animals, human health, and agricultural production. However, thus far they have received little attention in the historical scholarship
on risk management. The following essay seeks to contribute to this scholarship by looking at the history of Rinderpest in eighteenth and nineteenth century France and Germany. In comparing these two examples, the essay examines how epizootics have affected the development of European meat
production. I maintain that they fostered the creation of expert knowledge, which in turn directly affected the reform of meat production. Yet it also increased the realization that meat production always remained a risky business prone to such 'natural' disasters.</jats:p
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