Workshop Environmental Histories of Mountain Infrastructures and Knowledge: Alps and Asia in Comparative Perspective

Workshop organisé dans le cadre du projet ENVIROSHIFT par Katja Doose (Université Lyon 2), Emma-Sophie Mouret & Florie Giacona (Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement)

Mountain regions offer a particularly productive perspective for environmental history because they bring questions of environment, infrastructure, expertise, and political power into close relation. Mountains are not simply physical landscapes; they are border zones, sites of intervention and extraction, places of risk, and environments in which scientific knowledge has often been produced under difficult material conditions.

This international study day brings together historians working on the Alps and Central and Inner Asia, from the 19th to the 21st century, to explore how mountain environments have been transformed through infrastructure, scientific observation, and different forms of governance. Rather than approaching mountain regions as isolated or peripheral spaces, the workshop considers them as connected environments where states, experts, and institutions have sought to understand, use, and reshape difficult terrain. Bringing environmental history into conversation with the history of science and infrastructure allows us to ask how mountain environments shape knowledge—and how knowledge, in turn, reshapes mountain worlds.

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