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New Starting Grant at ZASB: "Curated Escapes and Derelict Landscapes in Times of Climate Change"
The innovative and interdisciplinary SNSF Starting Grant project by Luregn Lenggenhager is situated at the intersection of environmental history, environmental humanities and African Studies.
The ZASB commends Luregn Lenggenhager, PhD on his successful application for an SNSF Starting Grant. The innovative and interdisciplinary project "Curated Escapes and Derelict Landscapes in Times of Climate Change" is situated at the intersection of environmental history, environmental humanities and African Studies.
At a time of dramatic changes in climate, the project breaks new ground by interweaving two of the most explicit outcomes of the climate crises: curated escapes for the wealthy, and (soon-to-be) uninhabitable derelict landscapes. With its interdisciplinary approach and its careful consideration of the historical, social and economic contexts of these landscapes, the project challenges disciplinary and chronological boundaries, while simultaneously addressing two of the most important global challenges humans face: global social and economic inequalities, and climate change and related adaptations.
Luregn Lenggenhager is currently Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Cologne (Past Natures for Future Conservation (PANATURE): Current Narratives and Historical Human-Wildlife-Land Relations in Southern Africa and the European Alps.). He studied History, Social Anthropology, and Geography at the University of Basel, earned his PhD in History at the University of Zürich, and was then a postdoc at the ZASB until 2022 when he joined the University of Cologne with a DAAD Prime Fellowship.
Congratulations Luregn, we look forward to welcoming you back to the ZASB!
