
Spatializing the History of Ecology
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This book explores the mutual entanglement between space and knowledge-making in the history of ecology. Its first goal is to explore to which extent a spatial perspective can shed new light on the history of ecological science. Second, it uses ecology as a critical site to gain broader insights into the history of the environment in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Via a series of case studies - discussing topics that range from ecological field stations in the early-twentieth century Caribbean over wisent breeding in Nazi Germany to computer modelling in North American deserts - the book offers a tour through the changing landscapes of modern ecology.
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Jens Lachmund is a Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies at Maastricht University.
Content
Raf De Bont and Jens Lachmund
Part I: Crafting Zones and Regions
2. Mapping Heimat: Amateur Natural History and Plant Ecology in Imperial Germany
Nils Guettler
3. Life Zones: The Rise and Decline of a Theory of the Geographic Distribution of Species
Roderick P. Neumann
4. A Laboratory for Tropical Ecology: Colonial Models and American Science at Cinchona, Jamaica
Megan Raby
5. Field Stations and the Problem of Scale: Local, Regional, and Global at the Desert Lab
Jeremy Vetter
6. Ecology and Rehabilitation: The West Highland Survey
Mark Toogood
Part II: Modelling Systems
7. Ecosystem Simulation as a Practice of Emplacement: The Desert Biome Project, 1970-1974
Etienne S. Benson
8. The City as an Ecosystem: Paul Duvigneaud and the Ecological Study of Brussels
Jens Lachmund
Part III: Fashioning Objects of Conservation
9. Extinct in the Wild: Finding a Place for the European Bison, 1919-1952
Raf De Bont
10. Islands and Bioregions: Global Reserve Design Models and the Making of National Parks, 1960-2000
Simone Schleper and Hans Schouwenburg
11. Space, Place, Land, and Sea: The "Ecological Discovery" of the Global Wadden Sea
Anna-Katharina Woebse
Epilogue
Raf De Bont and Jens Lachmund
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