1st Edition
Ecological Ambivalence, Complexity, and Change Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities
Introduction
Simone M. Müller, Matthias Schmidt, and Kirsten Twelbeck
Part I: Conceptual Facets
1. Ecological Transformation and the Implications of Spatial Scale
2. Climate Solidarity, Time, and Ambivalence: On a New Term and Its Historical Legacy
Dietmar Süß
3. Transformation and/of ‘Colonial Tropes.’ Latin American Narrative Palimpsests
Victor A. Ferretti
4. Interactions of Efficiency, Consistency, and Sufficiency across Levels: Assessing Innovation Tensions through the Lens of Paradox Theory
Marcus Wagner
5. Toxic Commons and the Politics of Ambivalence: Re-imagining Toxic Legacy Sites
Simone M. Müller and Angeliki Balayannis
Part II: Ambivalences in Practice
6. In Praise of Ambivalence: Reflections on Experiences of Pollution and Remediation
Sebastian Lundsteen
7. Global Waste: On the Ambivalence of Wealth, Health, and Contradictory Development Models
Iris Borowy
8. Farming the Wind: Aeolian Politics and the Sacred Desertscapes (Orans) of Rajasthan
Dibyadyuti Roy and Nisha Paliwal
9. Global South Ambivalences of Transformation? Literature, Extractive Capitalism, and Literary Militancy in West Africa
Sule Emmanuel Egya
10. Mining for a Low-Carbon Economy? Articulations by the Mexican Corporate Sector
Rafael Hernández Westpfahl
11. Integrating Labor, Environment, and Climate? (Dis)connections in the Spanish and Portuguese Energy Decarbonizations
Rocío Hiraldo
12. Bioplastics Versus Conventional Plastics: An Analysis from a Sociological, Ethical, and Educational Perspective
Ulrike Ohl, Maria Backhouse, Kerstin Schlögl-Flierl, Anja Kalch, and Helena Bilandzic
13. Against all Odds: Managing Ambivalence in Philippe Squarzoni’s Graphic Novel Climate Changed
Kirsten Twelbeck
Concluding Remarks and Survey of the Contributions
Hubert Zapf
Biography
Simone M. Müller is DFG Heisenberg Professor of Global Environmental History and Environmental Humanities at the University of Augsburg, Germany.
Matthias Schmidt is Professor of Human Geography and Transformation Research at the University of Augsburg, Germany.
Kirsten Twelbeck is an American Studies scholar and coordinates the international doctoral program ReThinking Environment, a cooperation between the University of Augsburg and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.
