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Krajobraz po Zagładzie. Pastoralne dystopie i wizje „terracydu”
The Landscape after the Holocaust: Pastoral Dystopias and Visions of ‘Terracide’

Author(s): Aleksandra Ubertowska
Subject(s): Human Ecology, Environmental interactions, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of the Holocaust
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Holocaust studies; environmentalism; ecocide; Auschwitz; Anselm Kiefer;

Summary/Abstract: Ubertowska examines what possibilities emerge from relating two research perspectives, namely Holocaust studies and environmentalism. Her point of departure is the overlap between the definitions and range of associations in the terms ‘genocide’ and ‘ecocide’. She sketches out the assumptions of Franz J. Broswimmer’s environmental planetary history. To illustrate these theoretical assumptions in a way inspired by the theory of ‘ecocide’, Ubertowska analyses Georges Didi-Huberman’s book Kora as well as Anselm Kiefer’s paintings (esp. from the cycle ‘Morgenthau’).

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 132-146
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish