Birgit Butcher
social history
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Germany
Biography
Birgit Metzger studied Cultural Studies at the Saarland University (Saarbrücken) and at Université Laval (Quebec) and majored in Contemporary History at Saarland University. She received her diploma in 2006 with a thesis on creative milieus in urban environments. In 2012 she completed her PhD at the University of Freiburg with a thesis on forest death (as a key political issue in West Germany in the 1980s. From 2012 to 2015 she was a lecturer for Contemporary European History at Saarland University. Her research focuses on environmental history, social history, the history of events, transnational history and popular cultures. She is also interested in the relations between science, culture and politics in the 20th century.
Research Interest
Her research focuses on environmental history, social history, the history of events, transnational history and popular cultures. She is also interested in the relations between science, culture and politics in the 20th century.
Publications
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Creative Milieus: Concepts and Failures. In: Martina Heßler / Clemens Zimmermann (eds.): Creative Urban Milieus. Historical Perspectives on Culture, Economy, and the City, Frankfurt, 2008, pp. 379-408.
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Ecological modernization. On the history and present of a concept in environmental policy and social sciences, Frankfurt / Main - New York 2014. (co-edited with Martin Bemmann and Roderich von Detten)
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"First the forest dies, then you!" The death of the forest as a West German policy area 1978-1986, Frankfurt / Main - New York 2015.
