New Book Co-Edited by Simone M. Müller
07.04.2025
Project Director and Principal Investigator of “Hazardous Travels” Dr. Simone M. Müller has co-edited and published a new book together with Dr. Matthias Schmidt and Dr. Kirsten Twelbeck. As part of the Routledge Environmental Humanities book series, the publication investigates conflicts, issues, and tensions associated with today's ecological transformation processes under the title Ecological Ambivalence, Complexity, and Change.
“Under the umbrella of the Environmental Humanities, the book brings together scholars from fields such as environmental history, ecological economics, human geography, and ecocriticism. Contributions investigate the dissonances, or ambivalences, wound up with processes of environmental transformation both conceptually and empirically. Case studies range from wind farms in India to green mineral mines in Mexico, and from chemical contamination in Denmark to Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Denver, USA. Additionally, with a focus on creative environmental communication—as in Philippe Squarzoni’s graphic novel Climate Changed or G’Ebinyo Ogbowei’s poetry—contributions also present possible pathways for overcoming ambivalences, managing them creatively, or critiquing the concept as whole. The volume highlights how the humanities, the arts, and the social sciences can work together to help humankind develop and cultivate the skills to overcome paralysis and engage in practical action, and in doing so, puts forth ambivalence as an approach for being in today’s world.” (Text from Routledge)
The RCC would like to warmly congratulate Simone, Matthias, and Kirsten on their new publication!