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Wissenschaftlicher Leiter

Leitung
Wissenschaftszentrum Umwelt

Verwaltung

Verwaltung
Wissenschaftszentrum Umwelt

Mitarbeiter*innen des WZU

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Internationales Doktorandenkolleg "Um(welt)Denken"
Wissenschaftszentrum Umwelt
Felix Burzler
Programmassistenz Internationales Doktorand:innenkolleg „Um(Welt)Denken“
Wissenschaftszentrum Umwelt
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Internationales Doktorandenkolleg "Um(welt)Denken"
Wissenschaftszentrum Umwelt
Akademischer Oberrat
Wissenschaftszentrum Umwelt
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Internationales Doktorandenkolleg "Um(welt)Denken"
Wissenschaftszentrum Umwelt
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Doktorand
Wissenschaftszentrum Umwelt
Koordinatorin Environmental Humanities
Wissenschaftszentrum Umwelt

Technische Mitarbeiter*innen

Messtechnikerin Projekt UFP@NAKO und Kooperation HMGU-Universität Augsburg
Wissenschaftszentrum Umwelt

Hilfskräfte

  • Ezgi Bayluk (IDK Umweltdenken)
  • Andreas Krauß (WZU)

Doktorand*innen des IDK Um(Welt)Denken

ANNE-SOPHIE BALZER

Dissertationsprojekt (Arbeitstitel): 

Writing with Glaciers: Towards a Glacial Poetics in Contemporary Transamerican Poetries of the Anthropocene 
My project yokes together ecocriticism, new materialism, and animist philosophy as critical approaches to reading contemporary poetries on glaciers and the cryosphere. The emphasis is put on textworld-relations of these poetries, thinking material processes and transformations of glaciers as in line with textual strategies of the examined poetry.

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FIZZA BATOOL

Dissertationsprojekt (Arbeitstitel): 

Political Ecology of State Food Subsidies: Mapping the Impact of Subsidies on Agrarian Change in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

Subsidies are assumed to be good for farmers and agriculture but is this issue that straightforward? What is the cost of cheap food, and how is it paid for by the whole society and the environment? This research investigates the untold story of subsidies and their impact on human and environmental relations.

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LAKSHMI DILIPKUMAR

Dissertationsprojekt (Arbeitstitel): 

Ecologies of Resistance: A Study on Environmental Justice Narratives from the Extractive Economies of the Global South

My project analyses environmental justice narratives from the Global South that depict unequal environments created by social inequalities. The project attempts to re-imagine environment as an active agent that affects and is affected by the capitalist world system and locates the resistance movements within a wider political framework of social struggles and uneven distribution.

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LAURA FUMAGALLI

Dissertationsprojekt (Arbeitstitel): 

Vulnerable Landscapes: A Study of Landscape Aesthetics in the Anthropocene

My project aims to understand the aesthetics of contemporary landscapes by bringing together both theoretical and descriptive aesthetics and environmental artistic practises.

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DALER KAZIEV

Dissertationsprojekt (Arbeitstitel): 

Opportunities and Cosntraints of Extension Programs in Services: Lessons from Beekeepers

There is hope. Small initiatives, efforts, and services make a difference.

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LUCIA MEDICI

Dissertationsprojekt (Arbeitstitel): 

Multiperspectivity and Cultural Ecology in the Novels of Richard Powers

In the novels of Richard Powers there is no culture without nature, the choir of voices within creates a mosaic as complex as life.

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MAXIMILIAN PIEPER

Dissertationsprojekt (Arbeitstitel): 

The Sense-Making Machine - Material and Perceptual Foundations of Technology 

Technological progress promised to free us from daily work and ecological unpredictability. Exactly the opposite seems to have happened. What went wrong? And: can we regain control?

 

CHRISTIAN SCHNURR

Dissertationsprojekt (Arbeitstitel): 

Chemicals as Foreign Objects. Are Chemicals Unnatural?
Oftentimes, chemicals like glyphosate, nitrate or radioactive substances are perceived as ‘unnatural.’ My project puts the ‘unnaturalness’ of chemicals into questions and tries to establish new ways of perceiving chemicals in nature, in food, and in our bodies. My aim is to work towards a critical aesthetics of chemicals in the environment.

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ELISABETH SCHUSTER

Dissertationsprojekt (Arbeitstitel): 

Development and Evaluation of an Educational Concept for Sustainable Mobility at Primary Schools

How can we contribute to the further development of mobility education towards a more comprehensive and transformative approach?

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SVEN SEELINGER

Dissertationsprojekt (Arbeitstitel): 

Pasture, Border, and Battlefield. A Global Object-Ecology of Barbed Wire (1874-1989)

Barbed wire created spaces of lethal and non-lethal violence. Where was it present, and how did it affect ecosystems and societies? Which life forms profited and which suffered under its intended and unintended effects?

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PIA WIMMER

Dissertationsprojekt (Arbeitstitel): 

Stories of Change (Narrative Ethics for a Great Transformation)

If we want to succeed in building a good sustainable future for all, we need visions and stories about how this future looks. And we need ethical skills and moral values to carry them.

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Das IDK Um(Welt)Denken ist eine Kooperation der Trägeruniversität Augsburg mit der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. In München promovieren folgende Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen im Rahmen des IDK:

LIVIA CAHN

LUKAS EMRICH

KATHARINA KARRENBAUER

CHRISTOPHER KLAPPERICH

KATIE KUNG

DANIELLE SCHMITZ

FELIX TREUTNER

JASMIJN VISSER

FLORIS WINCKEL

 

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