Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, and Isabelle Stengers fought against a state-controlled form of science and saw “nomadic science/concepts” as a way to escape from it. The transnational history of the term milieu marks a good opportunity to contribute to another theory of nomadic vocabularies. Traveling from France to Germany, the word milieu came to be identified as a French theory. Milieu was seen as an expression of determinism, of the connection between the rise of the natural sciences and the rise of socialism, and it deterred the majority of German academics. Umwelt was thus coined as an “antimilieu” expression. This article defends a “transnational historical semantic” against the Koselleckian history of concepts and its a priori distinctions between words and concepts. Instead of taking its nature for granted, a transnational historical semantic investigation should analyze the terminological and national status given to the objects of investigation by the term's users.
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A Specter Is Haunting Germany--the French Specter of Milieu
On the Nomadicity and Nationality of Cultural Vocabularies
Wolf Feuerhahn
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2014
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- 33–50 (18 total)
Environmental Configurations
When the River Zayandeh Rud Stopped Crossing Isfahan
Sahar Faeghi and Sophie Roche
the configuration of objects, humans, creatures – all that interact as environment. Tim Ingold (2011: 80) has suggested conceptualising the environment (in German, Umwelt ) not to be external to humans but relating it to the inner world ( Innenwelt
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Dec 2019
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- 29–41 (13 total)
Elusive Fungus?
Forms of Attraction in Multispecies World Making
Michael J. Hathaway
This article explores how attraction, a companion term to elusiveness, reveals insights into multispecies worlds by showing how different organisms such as the matsutake mushroom interpret the world and interact with each other, whether or not humans are involved. Building on scholarly interest in the ‘animal turn’ (explorations of the human-animal relationship), this article moves beyond human-centered scholarship by using, but also modifying, the concept of umwelt introduced by the Baltic German biologist Jakob von Uexküll. Employing a critical social scientific reading of the biological literature that analyzes its findings, as well as challenges its animal-centric models of agency and behavior, I argue that this perspective helps us better understand ourselves as humans in a world that is much more than human.
Beyond Deliberative Systems
Pluralizing the Debate
Hans Asenbaum
through the notion of a civic Umwelt, the German term for environment. A civic Umwelt marks a region or place, such as the US city of Decatur, Georgia with a pronounced participatory culture, where various participatory events happen all the time. While
Moving Beyond the Frame
Flows and Relations in Hybrid Body–Screen Lifeworlds
Carolyn Deby
relations that flow across the inner–outer lifeworld or Umwelt for each individual. These flows connect and interact, in dialogue with other adjacent Umwelten . Further, it is asserted that such lifeworlds are experienced in continual and dynamic relation
Unsettling the Land
Indigeneity, Ontology, and Hybridity in Settler Colonialism
Paul Berne Burow, Samara Brock, and Michael R. Dove
overcoming the ontological hurdles of Eurocentric imaginings of post-humanism that these authors critique. Perspectivism Many of today’s studies of nonhuman others cite the canonical work of Jakob von Uexküll (2010 [1934]) on the concept of the umwelt
In Environment and Society
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- 01 Sep 2018
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- 57–74 (18 total)
Jonas Heering and Thane Gustafson
(January 2020), https://www.agora-energiewende.de/fileadmin2/Projekte/2019/Jahresauswertung_2019/171_A-EW_Jahresauswertung_2019_WEB.pdf . 6 Ibid. 7 Ibid. 8 “Primärenergieverbrauch,” Umwelt Bundesamt (28 February 2020), https
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Jun 2021
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Translating the Bottom-Up Frame
Everyday Negotiations of the European Union's Rural Development Programme LEADER in Germany
Oliver Müller, Ove Sutter, and Sina Wohlgemuth
can develop their region sustainably, economically and socially. ( Ministerium für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Landwirtschaft, Natur- und Verbraucherschutz des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen 2016: 72 ; authors’ translation) The rhetoric of endogeneity is
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Sep 2019
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- 45–65 (21 total)
Where to Now?
Germany Rethinks its Energy Transition
Josephine Moore and Thane Gustafson
zur Umwelt 2017,” Umweltbundesamt, June 2017; available at https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/publikationen/daten-zur-umwelt-2017 , accessed 31 August 2018. 3 For a brief history of the Energiewende, see https
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Sep 2018
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Liesa Rühlmann and Sarah McMonagle
, 27 April 2019 , https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Bevoelkerung/Migration-Integration/Methoden/migrationshintergrund.html (accessed 6 June 2019 ). United Nations ( 2017 ), International Migration Report 2017
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Sep 2019
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- 93–100 (8 total)