Histories of Sustainability in Europe. Discourses and Practices Before and After 1989

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Histories of Sustainability in Europe. Discourses and Practices Before and After 1989

Veranstalter
Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe
Veranstaltungsort
Ort
Marburg
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
15.11.2018 - 16.11.2018
Deadline
05.11.2018
Website
http://www.herder-institut.de
Von
Christian Lotz / Sabina Kubeke

The workshop "Histories of Sustainability in Europe: Discourses and Practises Before and After 1989" to be held on 15/16 November 2018 in Marburg is part of the project "Histories of Sustainability" funded by the Leibniz Association and run by the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin (Elke Seefried) in cooperation with the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe (Marburg/Christian Lotz) and the University of Augsburg (Marita Krauss, Jens Soentgen).

Sustainability as a word started its wider usage career in the 1970s with the documents and conferences prepared by United Nations. Only few decades later in the 21st century sustainability has already become a buzz word with its meaning being vague and very much dependent on the context. Therefore, the core aim of the workshop is to focus on the immense transformation of the sustainability discourse from its routes in forestry to the usage in almost every field of the human activity nowadays. What exactly have various actors and their policies meant by sustainability in particular European cases from the second half of the 20th century? How did discourses and practises of sustainability were influenced by political and social transformations in Eastern and Western Europe after 1989?

The workshop brings together 13 scholars working on case studies about several European countries and issues related to sustainability. In preparation of the workshop, the participants will provide short papers about their projects. The time during the workshop on 15/16 November is devoted to the discussion of these papers.

If you are interested to attend the workshop as a guest, please register in advance. Send an email to sabina.kubeke@herder-institut.de mentioning you name, your affiliation and (if appropriate) the title of the project you are currently working on. There is space for a small number of guests at the workshop. The guests will get access to the papers of the workshop participants in order to join the discussion. Please register no later than 5 November 2018.

Programm

Thursday, 15 November 2018

13.00-13.10 Welcome
Elke Seefried (Munich), Christian Lotz (Marburg)

13.10-14.00 Keynote
Melanie Arndt (Regensburg): A "new era of ecology" in East and West, 1986–1992

14.00-14.20 Coffee break

14.20-15.00 Presentation & discussion
Felix Lieb (Munich): From "qualitative growth" to "sustainable development": German Social Democratic concepts of sustainability and the economisation of environmental policy 1983-1995
Comments: Yulia Karpova (Budapest)

15.00-15.40 Presentation & discussion
Yulia Karpova (Budapest): Sustainability visualized and materialised: design project for the Soviet recycling system, 1981-85
Comments: Felix Lieb (Munich)

15.40-16.00 Coffee break

16.00-16.40 Presentation & discussion
Sabina Kubeke (Marburg), Poland and the international environmental cooperation during 1970s-1980s
Comments: Isabell Schrickel (Lüneburg)

16.40-17.20 Presentation & discussion
Isabell Schrickel (Lüneburg): A computational approach to explore the discoursive landscapes of sustainability at IIASA
Comments: Sabina Kubeke (Marburg)

17.20-17.40 Coffee break

17.40-19.10 Map Slam (group work with cartographic sources on environmental issues)
Christian Lotz (Marburg), Paul Grünler (Marburg)

20.00 Dinner

Friday, 16 November 2018

9.00-9.40 Presentation & discussion
Ronald Plantinga (Groningen): The sustainability challenge in a regional agricultural context. The case of the Frisian dairy sector, 1990-2018
Comments: Nadja Hendriks (Augsburg)

9.40-10.20 Presentation & discussion
Nadja Hendriks (Augsburg): Local interpretation of a global mandate of action: reading "sustainable development" in Bavarian communities
Comments: Ronald Plantinga (Groningen)

10.20-10.40 Coffee break

10.40-11.20 Presentation & discussion
Jacob Nuhn (Bremen): Biking to sustainability: local cycling initiatives in (post)socialist Dresden and Wroclaw, 1980-2000
Comments: Tracie Wilson (Halle)

11.20-12.00 Presentation & discussion
Tracie Wilson (Halle): The problematic nature of sustainability among environmental activists in Bielsko-Biala
Comments: Jacob Nuhn (Bremen)

12.00-13.00 Lunch break

13.00-13.40 Presentation & discussion
Karen Froitzheim (Augsburg): The development of economic sustainability: a corporate perspective in Germany and Great Britain
Comments: Eva Oberloskamp (Munich)

13.40-14.20 Presentation & discussion
Eva Oberloskamp (Munich): "Sustainable energy" and the liberalisation of energy markets: discursive conjunctions in Germany during the 1990s
Comments: Karen Froitzheim (Augsburg)

14.20-14.50 Final discussion

Kontakt

Sabina Kubeke

Herder Institute Marburg

sabina.kubeke@herder-institut.de

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