Former Railway Embankment Feldkirchner Tangente

Former railway embankment Feldkirchner Tangente—Munich’s “Wild East”? For a short time, this bypass route was used by trains. For a long time, endangered fauna move about undisturbed across the former embankment, rare plants establish themselves, and local people go here for recreation and relaxation.

Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery

Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery is an exhibition on Munich’s environmental histories. It showcases the final projects of students in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. The stories told in this exhibition ask: to whom does the urban world belong and what do we want the urban environment of the future to look like?

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Dietrich, Anne

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU), Germany

Anne Dietrich completed her master’s degree in social and cultural anthropology at LMU Munich in 2019. She joined the Environmental Studies Certificate Program at the RCC in October 2016. In addition to urban environmentalism and civic engagement, her research interests focus on individual strategies of negotiating environmental problems and ecological calamities in daily life. Taking these interests further, the topic of her master thesis was “’Disasters are only known to man.’ Negotiation processes and coping strategies of those affected by the June 2016 flood in Lower Bavaria. A critical cultural study of natural catastrophes.” Anne is currently working at DOK.fest München/Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München e.V.

Jebasinski, Maike

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU), Germany

Maike Jebasinski is enrolled in a master’s degree in intercultural communication at LMU Munich and partakes in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program at the Rachel Carson Center. During the studies for her bachelor’s degree in European studies at the University of Passau, she focused on English and history. After a year at the University of Warsaw and internships in Italy and London, she finished her degree with a thesis analyzing how Europe is being depicted in the British Daily Mail newspaper.

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StadtAcker

StadtAcker: Munich’s most valuable oasis? An example of how the dream of an urban garden can become a reality is the StadtAcker. Assisted by the city administration, citizens created a green oasis.

Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery

Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery is an exhibition on Munich’s environmental histories. It showcases the final projects of students in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. The stories told in this exhibition ask: to whom does the urban world belong and what do we want the urban environment of the future to look like?

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Mayer, Johanna

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU), Germany

Johanna Mayer completed a master’s degree in theoretical and mathematical physics at LMU Munich. She is also a graduate from the Rachel Carson Center’s Environmental Certificate Program. After her master’s program, she has worked on a scientific publication at the chair for statistical and biological physics at LMU Munich. She recently started a new position as an intern for data science and research at the Green-Tech startup Planetly.

Pichl, Carolin

Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany

Carolin Pichl is currently completing the Rachel Carson Center´s Environmental Studies Certificate Program. She has already finished her master’s degree in management at TUM and holds a bachelor‘s degree in sports science from TUM. Her master thesis focused on the consequences of being perceived as a socially committed person in the application process.

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Werksviertel-Mitte

Werksviertel-Mitte: A Showcase for Nature in the Ostbahnhof Neighborhood? In the Werksviertel the urban future of Munich is being reinvented. The development of the former industrial district is based on a social vision: inclusion and bringing together diverse elements. The Werksviertel has a rich history, and the plans for the future are ambitious. Is it possible to find a successful balance between past and future, between city and nature?

Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery

Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery is an exhibition on Munich’s environmental histories. It showcases the final projects of students in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. The stories told in this exhibition ask: to whom does the urban world belong and what do we want the urban environment of the future to look like?

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Held, Helena

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU), Germany

Helena Held studies visual anthropology at LMU Munich and is always interested in the interface between anthropology and art. Therefore she presented her outcome of the research of her bachelor thesis in an exhibition. She made a film together with some fellow students about the wool production on the Shetland Islands and presented a short film at the Venice Bienniale. She studied at the Venice International University (VIU) and the University of Oslo (UiO), where she visited transdisciplinary courses and worked on environmental topics like food studies and ecofeminism.

Klünder, Vera

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU), Germany

Vera Klünder studies public health at LMU Munich.

Reitz, Talitta

Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Germany

Talitta Reitz is a graduate landscape architect and urbanist, and a certified heritage conservationist from University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Originally from Brazil, she has a background in architecture and urbanism from Federal University of Parana, Curitiba, where she worked for architecture offices and local and federal institutions for heritage conservation. In 2016, she was the recipient of the ASLA “Student Design Merit Award,” and of the Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society in Architecture and Allied Arts “Design Excellence” Medal. Currently, she is an early stage researcher of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie RECOMS Innovative Training Network and a PhD candidate of environmental humanities at the Rachel Carson Center at LMU Munich.

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Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery is an exhibition on Munich’s environmental histories. It showcases the final projects of students in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. The stories told in this exhibition ask: to whom does the urban world belong? What do we want the urban environment of the future to look like?

Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery

Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery is an exhibition on Munich’s environmental histories. It showcases the final projects of students in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. The stories told in this exhibition ask: to whom does the urban world belong and what do we want the urban environment of the future to look like?

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Kleemann, Katrin

Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Germany

Katrin Kleemann is a doctoral candidate at the Rachel Carson Center / LMU Munich in Germany, she studies environmental history and geology. Her doctoral project investigates the Icelandic Laki fissure eruption of 1783 and its impacts on the northern hemisphere. She holds a master’s degree in early modern history and a bachelor’s degree in history and cultural anthropology. Katrin receives a doctoral fellowship from the Andrea von Braun Stiftung. She also is the social media editor for the Climate History Network and HistoricalClimatology.com.

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The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s

Excerpt from The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s by former Rachel Carson Center fellow David Moon.

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Interview with David Moon, author of The American Steppes

In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, former Rachel Carson Center fellow David Moon is interviewed on his new book, The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s.

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Histories of Central Himalayan Herbs: Vanaspati Karyalaya in Tehri Princely State c. 1879–1950

by Nivedita Nath

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Arcadia, Spring 2020, no. 13

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Recollecting the “prodotti vegetali” of the Natural History Museum, University of Florence

by Anna Svensson

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Arcadia, Spring 2020, no. 12

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Yuyos

This film is an audio-visual ethnographic project lived together with the peasant family Franco Gauto, in Colonia Luz Bella, rural Paraguay.

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"The Forest of Our Lives: In and Out of Political Ecology"

The author seeks to bring together environmental anthropology and history to frame the place of forests in humans’ lives, from a political ecology point of view. He does this by reflecting on his personal experiences in Northeast India, Kenya, and Sweden.

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