Environmental change and migration in historical perspective
organisée par "Climates of Migration", projet commun du Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, et du Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society de la Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Appel à contribution avant le 10 mars 2011
We seek proposals on a range of interconnected historical
topics, including, but not limited to:
- migration as a result of the constant degradation of the
environment (droughts, erosion, etc.)
- migration as a result of different kinds of extreme natural
events in the past (storms, floods, earthquakes, and others)
- population changes over time in distinct hazardous locations such
as floodplains, coastal zones, etc.
- the history of vulnerability and resilience; what exactly is the
relationship between the hazardscape and the landscape, or, put
differently, why did people move into a dangerous area in the first
place?
- historical examples of relocation, resettlement, zoning, and city
planning issues with impacts on the population as a result of
environmental change
- historical discourses on environmentally induced migration
- colonial discourses on climate as an incentive for or an obstacle
to migration
- islands, especially small and low-lying ones, as particularly
vulnerable (or particularly resilient) places
- the relevance of local, regional, and transnational networks for
environmental migrants
