Start
21 Apr 2026 @ 12:00:pm
Finish
21 Apr 2026 @ 1:00:pm
Location
GSSC, room 3.03, University of Cologne
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Event Details
MESH Green Shoots
April, 21 | 12.00-13.00 | GSSC, room 3.03
(Classen-Kappelmann-Str. 24, 3rd floor, 50931 Cologne)
Dr. Christoph Lange - "Towards an Ethnography of Mediterranean Critical Zones: Sensing & Sense-Making of Socio-Environmental Injustice through Multidisciplinary Community-based Research and Interventions"
In this seminar, Christoph Lange introduces the concept of Mediterranean Critical Zones (MCZ) as the underlying framework of his current postdoctoral research project. The project aims at developing a heuristic toolkit for integrating ethnography and environmental anthropology with environmental humanities, and Earth system approaches to socio-environmental change and interventions. Building on the notion of “nested Mediterranean zones” (Holdermann et al 2020), the project reconceptualizes the Mediterranean not as a bounded region, but as a dynamic assemblage of overlapping ecological, political, and infrastructural formations. These zones are increasingly shaped by global environmental change, resource scarcity, and enduring colonial asymmetries, making the Mediterranean a key site for studying socio-environmental injustice.
