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Andreas Jünger obtained a bachelor’s degree in history and Romance studies (Spanish) from the University of Bonn. He graduated from the University of Münster with a master’s degree in history. His master’s thesis was titled “The Environmental Policy of the Chilean Government after the Military Dictatorship (1990–2010).” He undertook predoctoral studies at the University of Bochum and received funding (Research School PLUS) for a five-month research stay in southern Spain (March to August 2017).
Andreas joined the Doctoral Program Environment and Society in April 2018 and worked at the Rachel Carson Center (RCC) as events coordinator from April 2018 to July 2021, and as communications coordinator and lecturer from October 2022 to September 2023. During his time at the RCC, he obtained two research grants from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for archival visits and fieldwork in Spain (2019 and 2021). He was a visiting doctoral student at the University of Málaga (2021) and is currently a fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European Hitory (IEG) in Mainz (until September 2024).
Andreas’s research concerns organic farming—its agricultural and environmental history, political ecology, and its role in agro-food studies—the economic, social, and environmental history of Germany, Spain, and Chile in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as well as the history of green parties and ecological movements, particularly in Germany and Spain.
Find him on Twitter/X at @andreas_juenger and on Instagram at @environmental_humanist.
Dissertation project: Ideas, Politics, and Materialities: A Socio-Environmental History of Organic Farming in Andalusia
Selected Publications:
- with Stephen Milder, Katharina Scharf, Amanda M. Nichols, Friederike Bruehoefener, and Adam Stone. "Petra Kelly: Life and Legacy of a Transnational Green Activist." Environment & Society Portal, Virtual Exhibitions, no. 1 (2024). Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. https://www.doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9772.
- “Protestar o ceder: los agricultores alemanes se rebelan” [Protest or give in: German farmers rally]. La Marea, 9 January 2024. https://www.lamarea.com/2024/01/09/protestar-o-ceder-los-agricultores-alemanes-se-rebelan/.
- “La guerra en Ucrania, los Verdes y el legado de Petra Kelly” [The war in Ukraine, the Greens, and Petra Kelly’s legacy]. Revista Contexto y Acción/CTXT, 18 May 2022. https://ctxt.es/es/20220501/Firmas/39694/los-verdes-petra-kelly-guerra-de-ucrania-envio-de-armas-andreas-junger.htm.
- “Für einen Feminismus vom Lande” [For a feminism from the countryside]. Review of Land der Frauen, by María Sánchez. Der Freitag, no. 47 (2021): 18. https://www.freitag.de/autoren/der-freitag/fuer-einen-feminismus-vom-lande.
- Review of Cultivating Nature: The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape, by Sarah Hamilton. Agricultural History Review 69, no. 1 (June 2021): 165–66.
- “Revealing the ‘Almerian Miracle’: Materiality of the Agrarian Modernization in the Campo de Dalías.” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia, no. 17 (Spring 2021). https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9300.
- “The Fridays for Future Movement in Spain.” Seeing the Woods. A Blog by the Rachel Carson Center, 8 January 2020. https://seeingthewoods.org/2020/01/08/the-fridays-for-future-movement-in-spain/.
- “Licht am Ende des Plastiktunnels: Die agro-kapitalistische Landwirtschaft um Almería und Huelva” [Light at the end of the plastic tunnel: agro-capitalist agriculture around Almería and Huelva]. Matices: Zeitschrift zu Lateinamerika, Spanien und Portugal, no. 96 (2018): 5–8. https://www.matices-magazin.de/archiv/96/licht-am-ende-des-plastiktunnels/.