Introduction

  • Set in motion by climate change, biodiversity loss, or planetary pollution, the call for socio-political and ecological transformations has become increasingly audible in political and public discourse. Nonetheless, consensus crumbles once concrete measures are put on the table. Serious tension often arises over costs, responsibilities, and accountabilities. Disparities also sit between national and international frameworks and the different scales and temporal dimensions of planetary environmental problems. While awareness of the multivocality and inner, societal, and even global conflicts that go along with ecological crisis has made its way into different social science and humanities disciplines, the notion of ecological ambivalence has not yet been addressed systematically from an interdisciplinary viewpoint, and therefore its possibly creative potential remains underexplored. While awareness of the multivocality and inner, societal, and even global conflicts that go along withSet in motion by climate change, biodiversity loss, or planetary pollution, the call for socio-political and ecological transformations has become increasingly audible in political and public discourse. Nonetheless, consensus crumbles once concrete measures are put on the table. Serious tension often arises over costs, responsibilities, and accountabilities. Disparities also sit between national and international frameworks and the different scales and temporal dimensions of planetary environmental problems. While awareness of the multivocality and inner, societal, and even global conflicts that go along with ecological crisis has made its way into different social science and humanities disciplines, the notion of ecological ambivalence has not yet been addressed systematically from an interdisciplinary viewpoint, and therefore its possibly creative potential remains underexplored. While awareness of the multivocality and inner, societal, and even global conflicts that go along with ecological crisis has made its way into different social science and humanities disciplines, the notion of ecological ambivalence has not yet been addressed systematically from an interdisciplinary viewpoint, and therefore its possibly creative potential for imagining alternative futures remains underexplored. This edited volume, Ecological Ambivalence, Complexity, and Change: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities, seeks to fill this gap and inspire conversations, new approaches, and narratives across disciplines that capture the dilemma in which conflicting reactions, beliefs, or feelings toward public policies or private practices for “saving planet Earth” threaten to produce a stalemate.show moreshow less

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Author:Simone M. MüllerORCiDGND, Matthias SchmidtORCiDGND, Kirsten TwelbeckORCiDGND
Frontdoor URLhttps://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/117743
ISBN:9781032627946OPAC
Parent Title (English):Ecological ambivalence, complexity, and change: perspectives from the environmental humanities
Publisher:Routledge
Place of publication:Abingdon
Editor:Simone M. MüllerORCiDGND, Matthias SchmidtORCiDGND, Kirsten TwelbeckORCiDGND
Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2025
Release Date:2024/12/20
First Page:1
Last Page:10
DOI:https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032627984-1
Institutes:Philologisch-Historische Fakultät
Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik
Fakultätsübergreifende Institute und Einrichtungen
Philologisch-Historische Fakultät / Geschichte
Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik / Institut für Geographie
Fakultätsübergreifende Institute und Einrichtungen / Wissenschaftszentrum Umwelt
Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik / Institut für Geographie / Lehrstuhl für Humangeographie und Transformationsforschung
Philologisch-Historische Fakultät / Geschichte / DFG-Heisenberg Professur für Globale Umweltgeschichte und Environmental Humanities
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften