Environment, Technology, and Development (Yearbook for the History of Global Development, 5) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3111610047 ISBN 13: 9783111610047

Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025

Synopsis

Histories of environment and histories of technology have moved in exciting, interdisciplinary directions in recent years, with increasing recognition that both environments and technologies are made and remade, gaining meaning only in specific historical settings. With historical scholarship weighted towards examples from the North Atlantic world, this volume provides a collection of grounded case studies from across the modern world that interrogate the relationship between environment and technology in developmental practices and discourses. Development projects have often involved assumptions that humans can create and wield technology to harness, improve or protect the non-human environment. This volume will not simply discredit these assumptions by revealing their nefarious effects on our society and planet, but instead historicise them by locating them within specific power structures and epistemologies. The connections and conversations between dispersed cases raised here point us to more nuanced conclusions about the causes and effects, the objects and subjects of history, in this dynamic interaction between environment, technology, and development.

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About the Author

Ismay Milford, Freie Univ. Berlin, Germany; Corinna R. Unger, European Univ. Inst., Florence, Italy; Iris Borowy, Shanghai Univ., China.

Edition details

• Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3111610047
• ISBN 13: 9783111610047
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 340
• Editor: Milford Ismay, Unger Corinna R., Borowy Iris