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Topography of Nature

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC)

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Topography of Nature

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Szczesny, Bartosz (Musik)

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10.5446/4453 (DOI)

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC)

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Niepytalska, Marta

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2011

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Ratisbon

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German

Dr. Martin Knoll erforscht die Naturwahrnehmung in der modernen topografischen Literatur. Bilder und Texte rezipierten nicht immer den tatsächlichen Zustand der Natur, sondern eher eine Wunschvorstellung. Dabei ließ man die negativen Seiten der Natur und ihrer Erscheinung aus. Carson Fellow Martin Knoll befasst sich mit frühmoderner Kultur- und Umweltgeschichte und ist seit 2007 Assistenzprofessor an der TU Darmstadt.

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Carson Fellow Martin Knoll does research on early topographical literature, and how its images and texts indicate environmental perceptions. However, reality is not often in accordance with the description and/or images within the text. By examining the editorial process, Knoll investigates understanding the role of nature in society and the accuracy of text topography. Dr. Knoll is an assistant professor of modern history at the Technische Universität Darmstadt.

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German	German Topografie Naturwahrnehmung Landschaftsbilder Umwelt
English	English topography environmental perception environmental history historical culture

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My name is Martin Knoll. I am assistant professor for modern history at Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany and I'm alumni fellow at the Rachel Carson Center. The title of my project is Topographies of nature, the nature of topographies. It deals with

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environmental perception and the creation of environmental knowledge in early modern topographical literature. My approach to this type of literature is the approach of an environmental historian with a cultural history background. The text and the images are

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presenting a certain image of the world, of the region they describe, of the city they describe and most of the time they do not describe the city, the nature of the landscape. They describe some some kind of

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nexuses between societal practices and materiality around them and within this framework there are different priorizations possible and one question is what role does nature play within these

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priority settings? One way to answer this question for me was to study editorial processes and in comparing the archival records documenting what was there and what was published afterwards

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showed me a bit about what type of nature dropped, what type of nature didn't occur in the finally published media and this is a very important point.

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Early modern societies have been organized in a very static way, in a very hierarchical way and obviously topographical descriptions of a country, of its economy, of its agriculture, should represent something like good order and

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nature when in its typical dynamic disturbed disorder, these are points that were left out. Nature as fluvial dynamics, nature as bad climatic conditions,

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nature limiting the productivity of land use, all these informations were quite likely to get left out. The way nature, the way society, the way

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socio-natural sites were depicted in historical topography can be clearly understood as a construction, as an image of the way society should be, the way a society wanted to be seen.