WOLTON Emma

Landscape wonder : a springboard towards an environmental transition ?

PhD registration

Institut Agro Angers - Pôle Paysage 

Supervisors

Fabienne Joliet, Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde, Thora Herrmann

Team

ENVIRONMENT : CONCEPTS AND NORMS

CONTACT

Emma Wolton has a master’s degree in philosophy from PSL University and is a doctoral student in geography at the Institut Agro Angers. Her thesis is funded by the CNRS as part of the PhD Joint Program between the CNRS and the University of Arizona (USA). She is also attached to the ESO (Espace et Sociétés) CNRS research unit (no. 6590) and the Environment : Concepts and Norms team at the Jean-Nicod Institute (UMR 8129) at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. Her research focuses on the concept of solastalgia (Albrecht, 2005), which refers to the psychological suffering experienced by individuals or human groups when faced with the degradation of their environment. By combining theoretical approaches and empirical studies, the aim is to propose a new model for understanding the phenomenon of solastalgia as a whole and its variations. This work is based on two surveys linked to mine projects in Sweden and Arizona. In a multicultural context where the Sami (Sweden) and Tohono O’odham (Arizona) indigenous communities are opposed to mining, the challenge is to think about differentiated experiences of solastalgia.

Article

Emma Wolton, « Une solastalgie autochtone », Projets de paysage [En ligne], 30 | 2024, mis en ligne le 14 novembre 2024. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/paysage/33990 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/12pqc

Storymap : The Values of the Santa Rita Mountains. Fieldwork in a Mining Context in Tucson (Arizona, USA)

In 2023 and 2024, Emma Wolton, was hosted at the School of Geography, Development & Environment and the Iglobes laboratory at the University of Arizona (Tucson, USA). This invitation enabled her to continue her fieldwork in southern Arizona, the results of which are presented in this Storymap. All the data collected (photos, videos, archives, interviews, newspapers, etc.) are brought together here in the form of a story, with the aim of making it a tool for scientific mediation.

Link : https://arcg.is/1Cr0Cj1