Thomas Lekan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1126775 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Thomas Lekan |
| NOMBRES | Thomas |
| APELLIDO | Lekan |
| FIRMA | LEKAN T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4432-4333 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Grün statt Grau
Recently, I was invited to take part in a panel discussion at the Ludwig Maximilian University's (LMU) Center for Advanced Studies in Munich on the topic of “Global Climate Justice,” the fourth and final in a series there on “Climate Futures: Dialogues across the Science-Society-Policy Interface.” As the event date approached, my misgivings about my role kept intensifying. “You've invited the wrong person!,” I thought, as I struggled to frame my …
Saving Nature under Socialism
Julia Ault’s impressive monograph joins a growing body of scholarship that explores the contours and contradictions of the GDR’s ‘socialist environmentalism’ within circuits of knowledge, policy and technology that traversed the Iron Curtain. Like Astrid Kirchhof, Ault questions post-Cold War stereotypes of the GDR as a polluted greyscape, dominated by an ecocidal dictatorship ruling over a suppliant population. Instead, Ault argues that the ruli…
Germany's Nature
Dolores L. Augustine. Taking on Technocracy
The history of West Germany’s antinuclear and ecology movements has generated a vibrant scholarly literature over the past decade, one heightened by the search for “usable” pasts amid today’s dire climate crisis. As Doris L. Augustine shows in this deeply researched monograph, Taking on Technocracy: Nuclear Power in Germany, 1945 to the Present, Germany’s Energiewende (energy transition), a national plan to phase out nuclear energy and reduce fos…
Baselining nature
Baselines are one of the most ubiquitous, yet unrecognized, components of contemporary environmental regulation. Usually understood as the ‘natural’ or ‘historical’ state of a species population, ecosystem, or climatic zone, baselines become reified through regulatory processes, management schemes, and consultant reports that attempt to assess and/or mitigate the effects of environmental change. Though the natural sciences have long recognized th…
A Natural History of Modernity
This article explores the doomsday vision of humans and other animals found in the nonfiction books, documentary films, and autobiography of former Frankfurt Zoological Garden director and television star Bernhard Grzimek. Focusing on his career transition in the 1940s and 1950s from veterinarian to zoological director to global conservation activist, the article shows that the Malthusian fears that underpinned Grzimek's plea for national parks i…
Region, Scenery, and Power
Fractal Eaarth
This essay offers a postcolonial critique of recent environmentalist literature and exhibitions that frame the Anthropocene using the NASA Apollo mission's Earthrise (1968) and Blue Marble (1972) photographs from space. Building on the work of Dennis Cosgrove and Donna Haraway, as well as historical evidence from the U.N. Environmental Summit in Stockholm in 1972, the essay explores how the attempt to depict Anthropos as a unitary geophysical age…
Serengeti Shall Not Die
This article examines the documentary films, popular science books, and essays of former Frankfurt Zoo director and television star Bernhard Grzimek and his son Michael as harbingers of a global conservation movement and an emerging tourist economy in East Africa, moulded by the unresolved longings of German imperialism, West German anxieties about decolonization and the Cold War, and the rise of West Germans as the ‘world champions of travel’. I…
Imagining the Nation in Nature
"A "Noble Prospect
Cold War Ecology
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Germany's Nature
What’s Next for Environmental History
Imagining the Nation in Nature
Focusing on the heart of German romanticism, the Rhineland, Thomas Lekan examines nature protection activities from Wilhelmine Germany through the end of the Nazi era to illuminate the relationship between environmental reform and the cultural construction of national identity
Imperial Germany 1871-1918
Regionalism and the Politics of Landscape Preservation in the Third Reich
Baselining nature
Baselines are one of the most ubiquitous, yet unrecognized, components of contemporary environmental regulation. Usually understood as the ‘natural’ or ‘historical’ state of a species population, ecosystem, or climatic zone, baselines become reified through regulatory processes, management schemes, and consultant reports that attempt to assess and/or mitigate the effects of environmental change. Though the natural sciences have long recognized th…
Fractal Eaarth
This essay offers a postcolonial critique of recent environmentalist literature and exhibitions that frame the Anthropocene using the NASA Apollo mission's Earthrise (1968) and Blue Marble (1972) photographs from space. Building on the work of Dennis Cosgrove and Donna Haraway, as well as historical evidence from the U.N. Environmental Summit in Stockholm in 1972, the essay explores how the attempt to depict Anthropos as a unitary geophysical age…
Serengeti Shall Not Die
This article examines the documentary films, popular science books, and essays of former Frankfurt Zoo director and television star Bernhard Grzimek and his son Michael as harbingers of a global conservation movement and an emerging tourist economy in East Africa, moulded by the unresolved longings of German imperialism, West German anxieties about decolonization and the Cold War, and the rise of West Germans as the ‘world champions of travel’. I…
"A "Noble Prospect
Regionalism and the Politics of Landscape Preservation in the Third Reich
Regionalism and the Politics of Landscape Preservation in the Third Reich
Imperial Germany 1871-1918
Imagining the Nation in Nature
Focusing on the heart of German romanticism, the Rhineland, Thomas Lekan examines nature protection activities from Wilhelmine Germany through the end of the Nazi era to illuminate the relationship between environmental reform and the cultural construction of national identity
Germany's Nature
What’s Next for Environmental History
Cold War Ecology
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Imagining the Nation in Nature
"A "Noble Prospect
Serengeti Shall Not Die
This article examines the documentary films, popular science books, and essays of former Frankfurt Zoo director and television star Bernhard Grzimek and his son Michael as harbingers of a global conservation movement and an emerging tourist economy in East Africa, moulded by the unresolved longings of German imperialism, West German anxieties about decolonization and the Cold War, and the rise of West Germans as the ‘world champions of travel’. I…
Region, Scenery, and Power
Fractal Eaarth
This essay offers a postcolonial critique of recent environmentalist literature and exhibitions that frame the Anthropocene using the NASA Apollo mission's Earthrise (1968) and Blue Marble (1972) photographs from space. Building on the work of Dennis Cosgrove and Donna Haraway, as well as historical evidence from the U.N. Environmental Summit in Stockholm in 1972, the essay explores how the attempt to depict Anthropos as a unitary geophysical age…
A Natural History of Modernity
This article explores the doomsday vision of humans and other animals found in the nonfiction books, documentary films, and autobiography of former Frankfurt Zoological Garden director and television star Bernhard Grzimek. Focusing on his career transition in the 1940s and 1950s from veterinarian to zoological director to global conservation activist, the article shows that the Malthusian fears that underpinned Grzimek's plea for national parks i…
Germany's Nature
Dolores L. Augustine. Taking on Technocracy
The history of West Germany’s antinuclear and ecology movements has generated a vibrant scholarly literature over the past decade, one heightened by the search for “usable” pasts amid today’s dire climate crisis. As Doris L. Augustine shows in this deeply researched monograph, Taking on Technocracy: Nuclear Power in Germany, 1945 to the Present, Germany’s Energiewende (energy transition), a national plan to phase out nuclear energy and reduce fos…
Baselining nature
Baselines are one of the most ubiquitous, yet unrecognized, components of contemporary environmental regulation. Usually understood as the ‘natural’ or ‘historical’ state of a species population, ecosystem, or climatic zone, baselines become reified through regulatory processes, management schemes, and consultant reports that attempt to assess and/or mitigate the effects of environmental change. Though the natural sciences have long recognized th…
Saving Nature under Socialism
Julia Ault’s impressive monograph joins a growing body of scholarship that explores the contours and contradictions of the GDR’s ‘socialist environmentalism’ within circuits of knowledge, policy and technology that traversed the Iron Curtain. Like Astrid Kirchhof, Ault questions post-Cold War stereotypes of the GDR as a polluted greyscape, dominated by an ecocidal dictatorship ruling over a suppliant population. Instead, Ault argues that the ruli…
Grün statt Grau
Recently, I was invited to take part in a panel discussion at the Ludwig Maximilian University's (LMU) Center for Advanced Studies in Munich on the topic of “Global Climate Justice,” the fourth and final in a series there on “Climate Futures: Dialogues across the Science-Society-Policy Interface.” As the event date approached, my misgivings about my role kept intensifying. “You've invited the wrong person!,” I thought, as I struggled to frame my …
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