A core question in plant ethnography is: How can human sensoria and learned modes of perception capture the existences, lifeworlds, and practices of world-shaping through and among plants? Certainly, this needs experimentality, creativity, and a commitment to transdisciplinarity. In this field trip, we want to explore possibilities of ethnographic attuning …
We are very happy to share our series of public events for the winter term 26/27! Everybody is very welcome to join! For any questions, please feel free to reach out to moderators or organizers of the events!
Hot off the presses! Anja Klein’s Monograph “Earthly Models. Ethnographic Encounters in Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research” has just been published with transcript in September 2026! About the book: Models of floods, disease, lakes, and fish don’t arrive ready-made – they’re patched together from code, data, theory, habits, and disagreement. Moving between …
How do we cohabit in troubled planetary ecologies? How to do environmental anthropology amid troubled ecologies and global struggles for democracy? And how can ethnographic film serve as one possible device for a public and engaged environmental anthropology? We tackle these questions in the impulse talk “Ethnographic film as a …
Update: The program for our upcoming workshop ‘Impulses for a public and engaged environmental anthropology. Concepts, perspectives, and politics’ is ready! You can find it here (PDF). We are really looking forward to fabulous conceptual inputs on subjects like infrastructure, water, and city, and on concepts like ‘more-than-human urban imaginaries’, …
The first collaborative publication on Habitability, our joint subject over the past years, is released! Title: Habitability Authors: LAEHR, Britta Acksel, Petra Beck, Milena Bister, Carola von der Dick, Desirée Hetzel, Alexander W. Schindler, Fotini Takirdiki Published in the “Environmental Humanities Glossary” of the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, …
Organisation: Desirée Hetzel, Emilie Köhler, Elisabeth Luggauer, Arno Pascht (DGSKA, AG Umwelthnologie) & Milena Bister, Valeska Flor, Oliwia Murawska (DGEKW, Kommission Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen) 8.-9. Oktober 2026, LMU München * Deutsch siehe unten Despite the increased public focus on extreme weather events, issues such as ecology and nature conservation are, on the …
Cities and the activities urban infrastructures enable have long been noted for making demonstrable impacts on the surrounding atmosphere. Cities also provide unique social and political infrastructures, promoting particular forms of cohesion and fracture, including opportunities for promoting political consciousness and inspiring collective activism. This paper introduces the concept of …
This session will explore the politics of water in Palestine/Israel, with a focus on the falls of rain. Where water is governed by an occupying power, rain can index the extremes of infrastructural control, just as it can reveal its limits, holding possibilities beyond the state, recalling other ways. By …
