My bottom line, building on Hobsbawm, Ranger and Anderson, is: #ethnicity, as an imagined community, is a construct, an invented tradition that ends up being, to quote myself, an “invented nature”
JOB: 3-year Postdoc Position in Public Anthropology (with a focus on Environmental Humanities) at the University of Bremen
The application deadline is December 10, 2025
https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/university/the-university-as-an-employer/job-vacancies-1/job/4108
for my seminar "Cultures of the Environment" I am working towards student spending a session mapping an #environment of their choice, as a way to kickstart discussion about selective #representation and #mapping as #environing. Does anybody have suggestions for a reading to assign to students ahead of the meeting (ca. 20-25 pp.)? I have some material already, e.g. a 2017 #DeepMapping booklet by Bloom and Sacramento (which is however too long as an intro reading) and some work by and about Denis Wood (which is problematic, as I am afraid that introducing his conviction into class, as necessary, will lead the discussion way astray). I'd appreciate any suggestions.
Ein #Erdbeben & in der Folge ein Großbrand & ein #Tsunami zerstörten heute vor 270 Jahren #Lissabon fast vollständig – eine der verheerendsten #Naturkatastrophen der europäischen #Geschichte:
▶ Rainer Koch, Literarische Bewältigungen einer Erschütterung. Das Jahr 1755, #WerkstattGeschichte 3/1992, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/umweltgeschichte/
#histodons #Umweltgeschichte #Katastrope #Catastrophe #envhist #envhum #Lisbon #earthquake #NaturalDisaster #Literatur #GreatLisbonEarthquake
Hey #EnvHum folks and #archaeologists! Are you involved in archaeological research into the history of forests? Then this call for papers might be of interest to you. Take a look:
https://projektwald.hypotheses.org/527
#WoodStory #ProjektWald #Forstgeschichte #Archaeology #Archäologie #CfP
We set up a multilingual #envhist starter pack (with a dash of #envhum) on @fedidevs: https://fedidevs.com/s/NjYz/
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#newbook: "Non-Western Approaches in Environmental Humanities" ed. Gabriela Jarzębowska-Lipińska, Aleksandra Ross & Krzysztof Skonieczny (Brill)
#envhum #envhist #openaccess #ecocriticism #ecolit #environment
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