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Anna L. Ahlers featured in FAZ on China's rise in the global system of science
Go to Article (in German)Constructing Spaceship Earth
In Constructing Spaceship Earth, Perrin Selcer explores how and why scientists affiliated with UN agencies made the global-scale environment a so
Data That Travel: Climates between Africa, Europe, and the Globe
"Data That Travel: Climates Between Africa and Europe" examines the conditions of climatological data collection efforts in colonial Africa and the pr
Exploring the Origins of Earth System Science
Earth System Science (ESS) underpins our contemporary collective and scientific representation of the Earth. It is grounded in the institutional work
The Industrial Organism
During the long nineteenth century, biologists and geologists developed a teleological theory of evolution according to which organic entities exhibit
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Menagerie: People and Wildlife in the American City
Half a century ago, major cities in the United States had little, if any, large and charismatic wildlife. In the years since, however, researchers and
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The Art of Judgement in Wetlands
The ecological category of wetland is very recent and it came into use only in the second half of the last century, when the dramatic loss of wet land
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In spite of this awareness, the notion of wetland is highly problematic: it is not self-evident what constitutes wetlands as they are, by definition,
Fossil Modernity—Technical Materialities and Time Regimes in the Anthropocene
Most definitions of the Anthropocene connect this new era to the industrial use of fossil resources. However, crude oil, coal, and natural gas have ha
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In cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion at Mülheim/Ruhr (MPICEC) the path from the history of fossil technology to
Machines That Can Talk? Looking for a New Way to Understand Animals in the Historic Discourse
This project postulates the question: is it possible to trace the origins of some methods of current ethology back to the debate around the Carte
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