Prof. Dr. Dorothee Brantz

Direktorin Center for Metropolitan Studies

Center for Metropolitan Studies

Technische Universität Berlin

Forschung und Projekte

Derzeitige Position(en)

Professorin

Aktuelle(s) Projekt(e)

City Seasons

Frühere Position(en)

Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2003

Veröffentlichungen

Monographien (und Dissertation)

Slaughterhouse Cities: Paris, Berlin, and Chicago, 1780-1914 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming)

Slaughter in the City: The Establishment of Public Abattoirs in Nineteenth-Century Paris and Berlin (Ann Arbor: Proquest/UMI Press, 2003)

Artikel

“Urban and (Rural) History,” in: Handbook of Historical Animal Studies. Edited by Brett Mizelle, Mieke Roscher, and Aline Steinbrecher (Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming 2021).

“Resilience: Dynamic Urban Concept or Precarious Neoliberal Strategy?” (together with Avi Sharma) in: Urban Resilience in a Global Context: Actors, Narratives, Temporalities (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2020).

"Metropolitan Natural Histories: Inventing Science, Building Cities, and Displaying the World,” in: Science in the Metropolis. Edited by Mitchell Ash (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2020).

“Vertical Ecologies: The Balcony Biotopes of Berlin,” in: Botanical City. Edited by Matthew Gandy and Sandra Jasper (Berlin: Jovis, 2020), 101-108.

“Animals in Urban Environmental History” in: Concepts of Urban Environmental History. Edited by Sebastian Haumann, Martin Knoll, and Detlev Mares (Bielefeld: Trancript, 2020), 191-202.

“Grünfrage und Groß-Berlin,“ (together with Harald Bodenschatz) in: 100 Jahre Groß-Berlin: Grünfrage und Stadtentwicklung. Co-edited with Harald Bodenschatz (Berlin: Lukas, 2019), 20-23.

„Epilog: Grüne Fragen,“ in: 100 Jahre Groß-Berlin: Grünfrage und Stadtentwicklung. Co-edited with Harald Bodenschatz (Berlin: Lukas, 2019), 224-227.

"Green Visions: A Dialogue," (together with Avi Sharma) in: Green City: Explorations and Visions of Urban Sustainability. Edited by Simone M. Müller and Annika Mattissek (Munich: RCC Perspectives. Transformations in Environment and Society, 1, 2018): 15-21.

“Assembling the Multitude: Questions about Agency in the Urban Environment” Roundtable: Urban Agency: Debating the Aims and Limits of Urban History, Urban History 44 (1, 2017): 130-136.

"The Urban Politics of Nature: Two Centuries of Green Spaces in Berlin 1800-2014” in: Green Landscapes in the European City. Edited by Peter Clark, Marjaana Niemi, and Catharina Nolin (London: Routledge, 2017), 141-159.

"Landscapes of Destruction: Capturing Images and Creating Memory Through Photography.“ In: Cambridge History of the Second World War. Co-Edited by Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2015), 725-748.

“Metropolitane Welten: Zum Urbanisierungsdiskurs in der anglo-amerikanischen Stadtgeschichtsforschung,“ Informationen für Moderne Stadtgeschichte (2, 2012): 62-68.

“Das Zusammenleben von Mensch und Tier: Was wäre der Eine ohne den Anderen?“ Multikosmos (July 2011): 1-8.

“Risky Business: Disease, Disaster and the Unintended Consequences of Epizootics in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century France and Germany.” Environment and History 17 (January 2011): 35-51.

“Chicago: Der Burnham Plan als städtische Vision.” In: Stadtvisionen 1910/2010: Berlin, Paris, London, Chicago. Edited by Harald Bodenschatz et al. (Berlin: DOM Publishers, 2010), 54-58.

“Environments of Death: Trench Warfare on the Western Front, 1914-1918.” In: War and the Environment: Military Destruction in the Modern Age. Edited by Charles Closmann (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2009), 68-91.

“On the Nature of Urban Growth: Building Abattoirs in 19th-Century Paris and Chicago.” Cahiers Parisiens 5 (2009): 17-30.

“Forum: The Nature of German Environmental History.” German History 27 (January 2009): 113-130.

“Animal Bodies, Human Health, and the Reform of Slaughterhouses in Nineteenth-Century Berlin.” In: Meat Modernism and the Rise of the Slaughterhouse. Edited by Paula Young Lee (New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2008), 71-85.

„Kulturgeschichte ohne Paradigmen: Eine Antwort auf Lynn Hunt.“ Historische Anthropologie 16 (3, 2008): 443-449.

“Die ‚animalische Stadt’: Die Mensch-Tier-Beziehung in der Urbanisierungsforschung.” Informationen für Moderne Stadtgeschichte (1, 2008): 86-100.

“Der natürliche Raum der Moderne: Eine transatlantische Sicht auf die (städtische) Umweltgeschichte.” In: Clios Natur: Vergleichende Aspekte der Umweltgeschichte. Edited by Norbert Finzsch (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2008), 70-91.

“The Domestication of Empire: Human-Animal Relations at the Intersection of Civilization and Acclimatization in the Nineteenth Century.” In: A Cultural History of Animals: The Age of Empire, 1800-1920. Edited by Kathleen Kete (Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2007), 73-93.

“The Natural Space of Modernity: A Transatlantic Perspective on (Urban) Environmental History.” In: Historians and Nature: Comparative Approaches to Environmental History. Edited by Ursula Lehmkuhl and Hermann Wellenreuther (Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2007), 195-225.

“(De)Humanizing the City: The Problematic of Livestock in Nineteenth-Century Paris and Berlin.” In: Urban Europe in Comparative Perspective. Edited by Lars Nilsson. (Stockholm: Stadsoch Kommunhistoriska Institutet, CD-Rom Publication Eighth International Conference on Urban History, 2007), m2, 1-14. (http://www2.historia.su.se/urbanhistory/publikationer/stud31.htm)

“Animal Bodies, Human Health, and the Reform of Slaughterhouses in Nineteenth-Century Berlin.” Food and History 3 (November 2006): 193-215.

“The Kosher Slaughter Controversy.” In: Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. Edited by Richard S. Levy. (ABC-Clio, 2005), 402-403.

“How Parasites Make History: Pork and People in the Nineteenth Century.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC (36, Spring 2005): 69-79.

“Stunning Bodies: Animal Slaughter, Judaism, and the Meaning of Humanity in Imperial Germany.” Central European History 35 (2, 2002): 167-194.

“Recollecting the Slaughterhouse.” Cabinet, A Quarterly Magazine of Art and Culture (September, 2001): 118-123.

Herausgeberschaften und Editionen

Urban Resilience in a Global Context: Actors, Narratives, Temporalities. Co-edited with Avi Sharma (Bielefeld: Transcript, forthcoming 2020)

100 Jahre Groß-Berlin: Grünfrage und Stadtentwicklung. Co-edited with Harald Bodenschatz (Berlin: Lukas, 2019)

Thick Space: Approaches to Metropolitanism. Co-edited with Sasha Disko and Georg Wagner-Kyora (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2012)

Greening the City: Urban Landscapes in the Twentieth Century. Co-edited with Sonja Dümpelmann (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011)
(paperback edition January 2019)

Beastly Natures: Animals, Humans, and the Study of History (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010)

Tierische Geschichte: Die Beziehung von Mensch und Tier in der Kultur der Moderne. Co-edited with Christof Mauch (Paderborn: Schöningh, 2010)

Forschungsinteressen und Arbeitsgebiete

Stadtforschung
Umweltgeschichte
Geschichte der Mensch-Tier Beziehung
Umweltgeschichte des Krieges