Hazardous Time-Scapes: Workshop Program

Hazardous Time-Scapes:
How to Make Sense of Toxic Landscapes from Multiple Timed, Spaced, and Embodied Perspectives?

Time 30 November -2 December 2017

Venue The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany

Conveners The Deadly Dreams Network, the Hazardous Travels DFG Emmy Noether Research Group, and the Center for the History of Global Development Shanghai

Abstract Toxic landscapes are ideal places to study multiple and overlapping time and space regimes. Toxins, such as heavy metals or radioactive molecules, can mark landscapes and their inhabitants for generations or centuries while also imprinting on the dominant framework of industrial clock-time. Further, the very same material can be considered toxic or non-toxic depending on their location. It may be hazardous waste in one country and recycling material in the next. The workshop Hazardous Time-scapes seeks to understand human-environment relationships through the lens of multiple overlapping time, space, and body regimes as they have (and continue to) play out in toxic landscapes.

You can find the full program here

Please contact the organizers at haztrav@rcc.lmu.de if you would like to attend.