Exploring the Intersection of Lakescapes and Military History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5085512 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Etienne Charrière (0000-0002-6871-9033, University of Geneva, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publication date | 2025-08-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning E Nature and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2514-8486 • E-ISSN: 2514-8494 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/25148486251363734 |
| OpenAlex | W4412882820 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 58 |
The study of processes leading to the militarization of landscapes is a rapidly expanding field of research. While certain themes, such as the impact of conflicts on landscape transformation, have received significant attention, others remain comparatively under-examined. Specifically, the environmental consequences of military training activities on inland freshwater ecosystems in the context of war preparedness have been largely overlooked by historians. This topic, however, falls within the dimension of militarized landscapes, encompassing lakescapes and the related environmental processes that undergo transformation due to conflict preparation. This article aims to address this gap by exploring a specific typology of underwater munitions sites: former military training targets and ranges located within inland freshwater bodies, with a particular focus on Lake Michigan in the United States and Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland. By contextualizing these sites within a historical framework and examining their commonalities and differences in training practices, this interdisciplinary research will discuss the current management-or lack thereof-of this military legacy resting at the bottom of the lakes. The aim of this research is to highlight how lakescapes have been transformed by military training and how such practices have environmentally impacted inland freshwater bodies. This study finds that these military activities were not concealed from the public, that they have environmental consequences, and that they consistently receive less attention than terrestrial sites
Cartography · Geography · Intersection (aeronautics · Archaeological Research and Protection · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Proving Grounds
Military Geographies
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Out with the Old
Researching Militarized Landscapes
Material Life Histories of the Missile Crisis (1962)
The social life of sediment
Dumping military waste into Lake Superior
Traces of Conflict
Ghost Battleships” of the Pacific
Star Carr in a Postglacial Lakescape
Missing from the record
Cold War Reduction
Model City USA
It's War and Everyone Can Do As They Please!’
The U.S. Navy and Vieques, Puerto Rico
From Civil Rights to Environmental Rights
The co-production of science and waterscapes
Waterscapes and hydrosocial territories
Modernity and Hybridity
Military pollution and natural purity
Les immersions de munitions dans les lacs suisses et français (1919-aujourd'hui), de l'oubli à un statu quo évolutif
The chemists' war' in Sydney's seas
Lively water infrastructure
Ponds, Power and Institutions
Fathoming chemical weapons in the Gotland Deep
Water Sustainability
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |