Contemporary Environmental History of the Soviet Union and its Successor States, 1970 - 2000. Ecological Globalization and Regional Dynamics

这一(后)苏联当代环境史领域的法德合作项目将在其研究和组织方面超越国界。在其研究中，该项目将分析20世纪最后30年与政治和社会的生态化和去生态化相关的有时动荡的过程。这些个别研究具有重叠的全球和区域历史视角，将有助于更深入地分析a)跨界互动过程中的互惠关系，b)中央集权国家政治的形成力量，以及c)区域一级的实践活动。在此过程中，该项目有五个主要研究目标：1.通过考察政治生态学在苏联后期和后苏联时代的作用，更密切地审视环境政治和环境意识的社会重要性和范围；2.通过分析跨集团互动和全球机构，确定苏联及其继承国在全球环境史上所扮演的角色；3.重新概念化苏联的解体和后共产主义时代通过从环境历史的角度对传统的分期和定性提出质疑而进行的变革(=苏联晚期和后苏联历史的重新概念化)4.要通过研究俄语来获得对这一时期权力动态变化的新见解，西伯利亚、中亚、高加索和波罗的海边境地区和国内环境(=区域生态动态和权力和空间的重新配置)5.通过记录当前的环境问题和生态辩论(=当前生态问题的历史)，强调环境史学术对后苏联国家的社会政治意义。此外，该项目旨在创建一个图宾根-雷根斯堡-巴黎研究三角，具有强大的国际网络和创新的研究计划，可以成为(东欧)欧洲环境史的引力中心。联合会议、研讨会、档案研究和出版物将卓有成效地将德国和法国的学术资源捆绑在一起。

This cooperative Franco-German project in the field of (post) Soviet contemporary environmental history will move beyond national borders in terms of both its research and its organization. In its research, the project will analyze the sometimes tumultuous processes associated with the ecologization and de-ecologization of politics and society in the last three decades of the 20th century. The individual studies, with their overlapping global and regional historical perspectives, will contribute to a more in-depth analysis of a) the reciprocity within processes of cross-border interaction, b) the formative powers of centralized state politics, and c) practical activities at the regional level. In doing so, they will provide an innovative and highly insightful perspective on the contemporary East Side Story of global environmental history.The project has five primary research goals:1.To look more closely at the social importance and scope of environmental politics and environmental awareness by examining the role of political ecology in the late Soviet and post-Soviet eras (= ecological structural change of environmentalism)2.To determine the role played by the Soviet Union and its successor states in global environmental history by analyzing cross-bloc interactions and global institutions (= ecological globalization) 3.To re-conceptualize the collapse of the Soviet Union and the post-communist transformation by questioning conventional periodization and characterizations from an environmental history perspective (= reconceptualization of late Soviet and post-Soviet history)4.To gain new insights into the changing dynamics of power during this period by studying Russian, Siberian, Central Asian, Caucasian, and Baltic border regions and domestic contexts (= regional ecological dynamics and the reconfiguration of power and space)5.To underscore the socio-political relevance of environmental history scholarship for the post-Soviet states by historicizing current environmental problems and ecological debates (= history of current ecological issues).Furthermore, the project aims to create a Tübingen - Regensburg - Paris research triangle with a strong international network and innovative research program that can become a gravitational center for (East) European environmental history. Joint conferences, workshops, archival research, and publications will productively bundle together German and French scholarly resources.