Bargheer, Stefan (Author)
The dissertation investigates the development of moral concern for the conservation of wild birds in Great Britain and Germany from the late eighteenth century to the present. Bird conservation was the earliest and most vigorous expression of concern for wildlife conservation. This development is analyzed from the point in time at which the greatest declines in bird life took place to the current large scale efforts at biodiversity conservation and environmental policy. In order to analyze the nexus between bird conservation in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, the project ties together ethnographic and historical-comparative methods to advance an historical ethnography for the understanding of this peculiar process of cultural change. The core finding of the dissertation is that concern for wild birds emerged from the very practices and institutions that had previously made for their destruction and decline. It is demonstrated that this concern developed out of a gradual re-interpretation and re-appropriation of already existing social forms. Concern for the conservation of birds and other species does therefore not describe a radical departure from the practices and institutions of modernity, commonly identified as processes of urbanization and industrialization, advances in science and technology, and the rise of capitalism and a bureaucratic state. The dissertation shows instead that concern for conservation developed from these practices and institutions. Species conservation is part and parcel of modernity as we know it and not some more recent anti-, counter-, or post-modern departure from it. The embeddedness of the development in the social forms of "traditional modernity" is captured by the project's title moral entanglements.
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Star, Paul;
(2014)
Human Agency and Exotic Birds in New Zealand
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Stefan Bargheer;
(2018)
Moral Entanglements: Conserving Birds in Britain and Germany
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Greenwood, Jeremy J. D.;
(2005)
Science with a Team of Thousands: The British Trust for Ornithology
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Davis, Sophia;
(2011)
Militarised Natural History: Tales of the Avocet's Return to Postwar Britain
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Seitz, J.;
(2007)
Three Hundred Years of House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) Persecution in Germany
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Henderson, Carrol L.;
(2007)
Oology and Ralph's Talking Eggs: Bird Conservation Comes out of Its Shell
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Thesis
Whitney, Kristoffer Jon;
(2012)
A Knot in Common: Science, Values, and Conservation in the Atlantic Flyway
(/isis/citation/CBB001560601/)
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Coates, Peter;
(2014)
Borderland, No-Man's Land, Nature's Wonderland: Troubled Humanity and Untroubled Earth
(/isis/citation/CBB001421431/)
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Ingram, Darcy;
(2013)
Wildlife, Conservation, and Conflict in Quebec, 1840--1914
(/isis/citation/CBB001422396/)
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Mulwafu, Wapulumuka Oliver;
(2011)
Conservation Song: A History of Peasant-State Relations and the Environment in Malawi, 1860--2000
(/isis/citation/CBB001422348/)
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Halliday, Stephen;
(2004)
Water: A Turbulent History
(/isis/citation/CBB000500271/)
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Jon Agar;
Jacob Ward;
(2018)
Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain
(/isis/citation/CBB636006238/)
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Bello, David A.;
(2014)
Relieving Mongols of Their Pastoral Identity: Disaster Management on the Eighteenth-Century Qing China Steppe
(/isis/citation/CBB001420326/)
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Blackbourn, David;
(2006)
The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany
(/isis/citation/CBB000775205/)
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Maierhofer, Waltraud;
(2012)
Goethe and Forestry
(/isis/citation/CBB001421369/)
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Bloch, D.;
(2012)
Beak Tax to Control Predatory Birds in the Faroe Islands
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Christine Lehleiter;
(2016)
Fact and Fiction: Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain
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Seigel, Jerrold E.;
(2005)
The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Western Europe since the Seventeenth Century
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Dolly Jørgensen;
Isla Gladstone;
(2022)
The Passenger Pigeon’s Past on Display for the Future
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Tawadros, Edward;
(2012)
History of Geology in Egypt
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