47 research outputs found
¿Historia entrelazada y el medio ambiente?Â
The objective of entangled history and the environment is to introduce climatic and other environmental factors into the postcolonial debate on the unequal power relations between the metropolis and its colonies. Dealing with both environment and empire, as well as unequal (colonial) power relations, has so far largely occurred in separate fields, environmental history, and postcolonial studies. The book attempts to bring the two strands together and to combine the conceptual perspective of intertwined history and comparative practices in order to highlight both material and constructed (or discursive) aspects of the environment as a factor in the formation of unequal (colonial) power relations. Two case studies are conducted through this conceptual lens. The first offers a new perspective on Christopher Columbus' first contact with the Arawak in Hispaniola in 1492. The second examines how climate became an argument for enslaving Africans and displacing them to sugar plantations in the Caribbean
Vergleichen unter den Bedingungen von Konflikt und Konkurrenz
Albert M, Engelschalt J, Epple A, et al. Vergleichen unter den Bedingungen von Konflikt und Konkurrenz. Praktiken des Vergleichens. Working Paper des SFB 1288. Vol 1. Bielefeld: Universität Bielefeld, SFB 1288; 2019.Was ist das Spezifische an Vergleichen bzw. Vergleichspraktiken, die unter den Bedingungen von Konflikt und/oder Konkurrenz durchgeführt werden? Im vorliegenden Working Paper wird dieses Spezifische anhand von soziologisch inspirierten Überlegungen zu den Grundbegrifflichkeiten des Konflikts bzw. der Konkurrenz als einer besonderen Art der Formung sozialer Beziehungen herausgearbeitet. Zunächst werden die Begriffe von Konkurrenz und direkten gewalttätigen Konflikten vor dem Hintergrund unterschiedlicher disziplinärer Forschungskontexte bestimmt. Ausgehend von einer Soziologie der Konkurrenz geht es dabei um sozial- und geschichtswissenschaftliche Diskussionen um gewalttätige Konflikte. Zentral sind die begriffliche Schärfung unterschiedlicher kriegerischer Auseinandersetzungen und das Gewalthandeln in Konfliktsituationen, die nicht als Krieg bezeichnet werden können. Anschließend werden die vielschichtigen Wechselbeziehungen sowohl zwischen gewalttätigen Konflikten und Konkurrenz als auch zwischen Konflikten, Konkurrenzen und Vergleichspraktiken aus der Sicht der unterschiedlichen Forschungsprojekte des Projektbereichs A des SFB 1288 dargestellt.**Ergänzender Hinweis zu den Creative Commons Lizenzen**"Creative Commons license terms for re-use do not apply to any content (such as graphs, figures, photos, excerpts, etc.) not original to the Open Access publication and further permission may be required from the rights holder. The obligation to research and clear permission lies solely with the party re-using the material.
COVID-19, Climate, and White Supremacy - Multiple Crises or One?
Rohland E. COVID-19, Climate, and White Supremacy - Multiple Crises or One? Journal for the History of Environment and Society. 2020
Fire in Swiss Re's Early History, 1864-1906: Perspectives for an Environmental Business History?
Rohland E. Fire in Swiss Re's Early History, 1864-1906: Perspectives for an Environmental Business History? EABH Bulletin. 2010;1:40-46
¿Historia entrelazada y el medio ambiente? Transformaciones socioambientales en el Caribe, 1492-1800
Rohland E. ¿Historia entrelazada y el medio ambiente? Transformaciones socioambientales en el Caribe, 1492-1800. Ensayos InterAmericanos. Vol 9. Bielefeld: kipu-Verlag; 2020
Changes in the Air. Hurricanes in New Orleans from 1718 to the Present
Rohland E. Changes in the Air. Hurricanes in New Orleans from 1718 to the Present. Environmental History. International Perspectives. Vol 15. New York: Berghahn Books; 2019.Hurricanes have been a constant in the history of New Orleans. Since before its settlement as a French colony in the eighteenth century, the land entwined between Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River has been lashed by powerful Gulf storms. Time and again, these hurricanes have wrought immeasurable loss and devastation, spurring reinvention and ingenuity on the part of inhabitants. Changes in the Air offers a rich and thoroughly researched history of how hurricanes have shaped and reshaped New Orleans from the colonial era to the present day, focusing on how its residents have adapted to a uniquely unpredictable and destructive environment across more than three centuries
H-Environment Roundtable Review of Cameron B. Strang, Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018)
Rohland E. H-Environment Roundtable Review of Cameron B. Strang, Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018). 2022;12(5):10-12
From Wood to Stone. The Risk Management of Swiss Re in the Sundsvall Fire in 1888
Rohland E. From Wood to Stone. The Risk Management of Swiss Re in the Sundsvall Fire in 1888. Environment and History. 2011;17(1):153-169
Arriving in the Anthropocene: 300 years of adaptation to hurricanes and Mississippi floods in New Orleans
Rohland E. Arriving in the Anthropocene: 300 years of adaptation to hurricanes and Mississippi floods in New Orleans. Anthropocene Curriculum. 06.12.2019