Participant Info
- First Name
- Sarah
- Last Name
- Hamilton
- Country
- Norway
- State
- sarah.hamilton@uib.no
- Affiliation
- University of Bergen
- Website URL
- https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Sarah.Hamilton
- Keywords
- Environment, water, groundwater, agriculture, Spain, science, European Union, conservation, comparative history, world history, engaged pedagogy
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
Sarah Hamilton is an associate professor of history at the University of Bergen. Her current book project, Water Underground, is a comparative study of large-scale groundwater development over the past 150 years that incorporates sites in Spain, the United States, Australia, Saudi Arabia, and southern Africa. It follows flows of water, goods, expertise, and technology through global networks and explores epistemological and practical questions surrounding the exploitation of invisible resources.
Her first book, Cultivating Nature: The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape, received the 2019 Turku Book Award from the European Society for Environmental History and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. Focusing on the history of the Albufera de Valencia, a natural park located in eastern Spain, it used the park’s contested lands and waters as a lens to bring regional, national, and global social histories into sharp focus. It argued that efforts to preserve biological and cultural diversity must incorporate the interests of those who live within the heavily modified and long-exploited ecosystems of contemporary working landscapes.
- Recent Publications
“Toxicidad e invisibilidad en la Albufera de Valencia,” in Ximo Guillem-Llobat & Agustí Nieto-Galan, eds., Tóxicos Invisibles: La construcción de la ignorancia ambiental (Barcelona: Icaria Editorial, 2020): 257-283.
Cultivating Nature: The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape(University of Washington Press, 2018).
“Environmental Change and Protest in Franco’s Spain, 1939-1975.” Environmental History 22 (2017): 257-281.
“Activismo Medioambiental en la Época Tardofranquista. El caso de El Saler.” Arbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento, Cultura (journal of the Spanish National Research Council), 192 no. 781 (Sept-Oct. 2016): a346.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Sarah Hamilton
- Country Focus
- Spain, Western Europe, Global
- Expertise by Geography
- Spain, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Environment, Politics, Rural & Agrarian History, Science, Technology
