Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron Curtain - Couverture souple

Pieck, Sonja K.

 
9780262546164: Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron Curtain
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0262546167 ISBN 13 : 9780262546164
Editeur : The MIT Press, 2023

Synopsis

An exploration of the Green Belt conservation project between the former East and West Germanies and its relationship to emergent ecosystems, trauma, and memorialization.

The first book-length scholarly treatment of Germany’s largest conservation project, the Green Belt, Mnemonic Ecologies by Sonja Pieck presents a new interdisciplinary approach: that effective restoration and conservation of wounded land must merge ecology with memory. Since the Cold War’s end in 1989, German conservationists have transformed the once-militarized border between East and West Germany into an extensive protected area. Yet as forests, meadows, and wetlands replace fences, minefields, and guard towers, ecological recovery must reckon with the pain of the borderlands’ brutal past. The lessons gained by conservationists here, Pieck argues, have profound practical and ethical implications far beyond Germany.

Can conservation help heal both ecological and societal wounds? How might conservation honor difficult socioecological pasts? Deeply researched and evocatively written, this beautiful, interdisciplinary investigation into the legacy of war and nature’s resurgence blends environmental history, ethics, geography, and politics with ecology and memory studies. Amid our rampant biodiversity crisis, Mnemonic Ecologies shows why conservation must include humanized landscapes in its purview, thus helping to craft a new conservation ethos that is collaborative, empathetic, and more sensitive to the connections between humans and the places they inhabit.

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À propos de l?auteur

Sonja K. Pieck is a human geographer and Professor of Environmental Studies at Bates College. Her interdisciplinary research explores environmental politics, cultures, and governance in Europe and South America.

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Éditeur
The MIT Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0262546167
ISBN 13 
9780262546164
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
290
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