Contested Spaces, Geo-Interventions, and the Search for Order: Re-Assessing Germany’s Modern History

The predicaments of the early twenty-first century seem to call established narratives of modern trajectories into question. Environmental crisis and the shock of the Anthropocene coincide with disillusionment about classical tales of Western liberty, emancipation, and conquest of planetary space. How did we get there, and what kinds of stories should we be telling? Paul Nolte’s lecture surveys the field for the case of modern Germany and suggests a framework that brings together recent approaches in the history of ecology, space and territory, and political regimes since the eighteenth century. Den Originalbeitrag und mehr finden Sie bitte hier: https://lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/nolte_dhilondon