Video statement by Helena Böhmova
What role does industrial heritage play in addressing climate change?
In the video, doctoral researcher Helena Böhmová explains the basics of ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in the Middle German coal district, offering a summary of first-hand insights into the lived realities of post-coal landscapes and the different dimensions of coal-exit policies. The short spot sheds light on how the industrial heritage sector in the region serves as an interesting platform for the complex socio-ecological transformations of energy transitions and climate urgency in central Germany, contributing to one of the themes of the C-Urge project.
The C-Urge project brings together academics and local partners across the world to examine how climate urgency is experienced, contested, and enacted in diverse contexts. Through multimedia outputs such as this video, the project seeks to make ethnographic perspectives on climate transitions accessible to broader publics and various audiences.
C-Urge is a transnational European research network involving Professor Asta Vonderau as well as doctoral researchers Helena Böhmova and Jonny Grünsch at the Seminar for Ethnology.