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About the Exhibition

About the exhibition Toxic Relationships

Toxic Relationships: Uncovering the Worlds of Hazardous Waste

Modern societies’ hazardous by-products cast a dark shadow over the planet. A threat to humans and the environment alike, hazardous waste comes in many guises: discarded batteries, asbestos, giant ships, or tailings from mining operations. While these objects might not seem dangerous at first sight, they have characteristics and components that make them potentially deadly. This virtual exhibition gives you an insight into the obscure world of hazardous waste, its questionable trade across the globe, and the people successfully fighting for safe and just waste management. The Hazardous Travels research team takes you on a journey both into our research and to the edges of our societies that many prefer not to see.

Maximilian Feichtner, Jonas Stuck, Ayushi Dhawan, Christina Lennartz, and Simone M. Müller

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Feichtner, Maximilian

Feichtner, Maximilian

Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Germany

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Maximilian Feichtner studied Spanish, political science, and social sciences in Freiburg, Cape Town, and Bangkok. He participated in the Global Studies Programme and received a joint MA in social sciences from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the University of Cape Town in July 2016. Maximilian joined the DFG Emmy Noether Research Group “Hazardous Travels: Ghost Acres and the Global Waste Economy” at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich in April 2017. In 2021, he finished his PhD thesis with the title “The Metamorphosis of the Amazon: Oilmen, Hazardous Waste, and the Ecuadorean Rainforest in the 20th Century.” You can learn more about his project here.

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Stuck, Jonas

Stuck, Jonas

Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Germany

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Jonas Stuck is a PhD student at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, and part of the DFG Emmy Noether Research Group “Hazardous Travels: Ghost Acres and the Global Waste Economy.” He is working on the export of hazardous waste from West Germany to its East German neighbor during the Cold War. His research interests include the international trade of hazardous waste, the history of environmental citizen movements, and the intersection of science communication with the arts and academia. He graduated with an MA in Contemporary History from the Humboldt University Berlin, the Sciences Po Lyon and the Université Lumière Lyon 2. You can learn more about his project here.

Dhawan, Ayushi

Dhawan, Ayushi

Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Germany

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Ayushi Dhawan is currently undertaking a PhD in Environmental Humanities at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She is a part of the DFG Emmy-Noether Research Group “Hazardous Travels: Ghost Acres and the Global Waste Economy.” With a background in history, her research focuses on the Alang Shipbreaking Industry in Gujarat, 1983–2012. She completed her BA Hons. and MA in History from the University of Delhi in 2014, before joining the foundation year at the University of Leiden in 2014–2015, supported by an ENCOMPASS Scholarship. Subsequently, she earned her research master’s degree in colonial and global history in 2017. She has written various blog posts for Seeing the Woods, Kunsthal Extra City #Cahier 5, and Environmental History Now. Learn more about here research project here.

Lennartz, Christina

Lennartz, Christina

Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Germany

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Christina Lennartz is currently pursuing her Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration at the Ludwig-Maximilians University. Before commencing her studies in 2017, she spent a year working on organic farms in Southern France, California, and Oregon, which sparked her initial interest in environmentalism and sustainability. Following her travels, she worked in the Berlin start-up scene and media industry as an editor as well as a project, content and social media media manager. She joined the DFG Emmy-Noether Research Group “Hazardous Travels: Ghost Acres and the Global Waste Economy” as a research assistant in September 2018.

Müller, Simone M.

Müller, Simone M.

Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Germany

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Dr. Simone M. Müller is Project Director and Principal Investigator of the DFG Emmy Noether Research Group “Hazardous Travels: Ghost Acres and the Global Waste Economy” at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich. She works at the intersection of globalization studies, economic and social history, and environmental humanities. Her research interests range from the international trade in hazardous waste material and the intellectual history of economic ecological thinking, to green city concepts and the study of ocean space. She has received numerous awards and fellowships, among them from the Smithsonian Institution, the Science History Institute, and the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Young ZiF (Center for Interdisciplinary Research) of the University of Bielefeld and in 2017 was nominated as one of the leading female academics in her field by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Bosch Foundation. You can learn more about her research here.

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Interview with Tom Philpott, author of Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It

In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Tom Philpott is interviewed on his book, Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It.

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Interview with John Soluri and Claudia Leal, editors of A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America

In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, John Soluri and Claudia Leal are interviewed on their edited volume, A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America.

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Land׀S̶c̶a̶p̶e̶. Il più famoso paesaggio

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Perspectives Issue 2020/2

Combinando ricerca storica e lavoro di campo, Noemi Quagliati documenta la distruzione e il recupero dei paesaggi del fronte occidentale della Grande Guerra.

Oggetti testardi: tradurre i rifiuti

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Perspectives Issue 2020/2

David-Christopher Assmann scrive un testo narrativo per raccontare la sua ricerca che verte su come la narrativa e la poesia abbiamo esplorato e trattato il tema dei rifiuti. Questa meta-narrativa ci ricorda quanto i rifiuti siano difficili da trattare, anche attraverso le convenzioni letterarie.

Interview with Kristina Lyons, author of Vital Decomposition: Soil Practitioners and Life Politics

In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Kristina M. Lyons is interviewed on her new book, Vital Decomposition Soil Practitioners and Life Politics.

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Stubborn Stuff: Translating Rubbish

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Perspectives Issue 2020/2

David-Christopher Assmann explores how rubbish is translated into (literary) text, arguing that discarded materials are difficult to translate, resisting discursive orders and practices.

The Most Famous Land|S̶c̶a̶p̶e̶

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Perspectives Issue 2020/2

Through a combination of historical research and environmental fieldwork focusing on photographic imagery taken during World War I, Noemi Quagliati documents the environmental recovery of the former Western Front.

Why Europe Responded Differently from the United States

Why Europe Responded Differently from the United States

This is Chapter 9 of the exhibition “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: A book that changed the world” by historian Mark Stoll.

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, a Book that Changed the World

This virtual exhibition presents the global reception and impact of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring as well as the book’s legacy in popular culture, music, literature, and the arts.

This version 2, published in 2020, includes minor updates to the original 2012 virtual exhibition (view PDF here) and applies the Environment & Society Portal’s responsive layout.

Mark Stoll

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Stoll, Mark

Stoll, Mark

Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas

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Mark Stoll is professor of history at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, and is working on an environmental history of capitalism. Stoll is author of two books, Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism (2015), and Protestantism, Capitalism, and Nature in America (1997), as well as chapters on the influence of religion on Rachel Carson and E. O. Wilson. He has edited “Nature and Human Societies,” a book series for ABC-Clio on world environmental history, and with Dianne Glave co-edited “To Love the Wind and the Rain”: African Americans and Environmental History (2006).

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Introduction

Introduction

Overview of the exhibition “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: A book that changed the world” by historian Mark Stoll. This exhibition presents the global reception and impact of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, a Book that Changed the World

This virtual exhibition presents the global reception and impact of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring as well as the book’s legacy in popular culture, music, literature, and the arts.

This version 2, published in 2020, includes minor updates to the original 2012 virtual exhibition (view PDF here) and applies the Environment & Society Portal’s responsive layout.

Mark Stoll

About the author

Stoll, Mark

Stoll, Mark

Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas

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Mark Stoll is professor of history at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, and is working on an environmental history of capitalism. Stoll is author of two books, Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism (2015), and Protestantism, Capitalism, and Nature in America (1997), as well as chapters on the influence of religion on Rachel Carson and E. O. Wilson. He has edited “Nature and Human Societies,” a book series for ABC-Clio on world environmental history, and with Dianne Glave co-edited “To Love the Wind and the Rain”: African Americans and Environmental History (2006).

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