3rd World Congress of Environmental History

Experiences on Urban Environmental History: Methodologies, Uses and Goals in a Multidisciplinary World

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

Urban environmental history, after a late beginning, is now an established subfield in environmental history. Urbanization, particularly since the industrial revolution, has presented exciting challenges for environmental historians, often in connection with other urban-minded disciplines. Concepts such as urban territory, grassroots communities, urban literature, urban nature invite historical geographers, ecocritics, and other scholars connected to environmental humanities to a fruitful dialogue with urban environmental historians. This panel builds on this dialogue, by discussing multidisciplinary and transnational experiments on urban environmental history in Naples, Rio de Janeiro and Kiev, from mid-19th century to early 21st century. The panel members bring their own experiences in dialoguing with colleagues from related disciplines, reaching out for new technologies and proposing public policies.

Sub Unit

• 3rd World Congress of Environmental History

Chair

• Sandra Swart, Stellenbosch University

Presenters

• Eunice Nodari, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

• Lise Fernanda Sedrez, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

• Marco Armiero, Environmental Humanities laboratory, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

• Zephyr Frank, Stanford University