Sebastian Grevsmühl (CNRS)
The global environment: A Visual History
In my talk I will address a large variety of historical icons of the global environment. I will show that the icons of our environmental age do not provide simple readings, that they carry multiple, often contradicting messages, and that they can be vectors of highly ambiguous and even conflicting political beliefs. One central claim is that we need to better understand the constitutive role the visual and associated knowledge practices, conventions and infrastructures play in mediating global environmental phenomena. My goal is thus to develop a broader historical framework for understanding how the visual actively shaped scientific and environmental discourse, and how it stimulated the rise of holistic and dynamic understandings of the environment from the nineteenth century onwards.
Sebastian Vincent Grevsmühl is CNRS researcher and historian of science, technology and environment. He specialises in environmental history and visual studies. He has mainly written on the geophysical sciences, polar history and the role of images in science. He is the author of La Terre vue d’en haut: l’invention de l’environnement global (Seuil, 2014).
Sebastian Grevsmühl est chercheur au CNRS et historien des sciences, des techniques et de l’environnement. Il est spécialiste des études visuelles et d’histoire environnementale. Il est l’auteur de La Terre vue d’en haut (Seuil 2014) et il a publié plusieurs articles sur les sciences géophysiques, l’histoire polaire et les cultures visuelles en sciences.
Es folgt ein Kommentar von David Kuchenbuch (Gießen).
PD Dr. David Kuchenbuch, geb. 1980, arbeitet als Zeithistoriker an der der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. Er forscht zur europäischen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts und hat zum „Social Engineering“ und zur Geschichte des Globalismus publiziert.
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Léa Renard (2021, 4. Juni). 10.06.2021 – The Global Environment: A Visual History. Dynamiken und Erfahrungen der Globalisierung - Dynamiques et expériences de la globalisation. Abgerufen am 17. April 2024, von https://doi.org/10.58079/o1ys