History
College of Liberal Arts
Twin Cities
Award Year
2021
University Award
McKnight Land-Grant Professorship
Research Title
Political Ecology of Forced Sedentarization: Herd Dependent Peoples, Climate Change, and the Encroaching State (1850-1950)
No Monument Location
In order to understand the global climate crisis today we need to look at history as well as science. Historical research examining state responses to environmental change shows consequences for human populations. This comparative project explores the global interaction between climate change, destruction of herds, and forced settlement of Indigenous populations during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The goal is to analyze the politics of environmental change in the past and the present.