ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses anthropological landscape research and explores its theoretical and methodological foundations accordingly. It provides new and often controversial theories and politics that have emerged from this postenvironmental situation. The chapter also provides an insight into the debate in environmentalism and into an ongoing controversy between so-called ecomodernists and anthropologists. It outlines the contours of postenvironmental landscape research in anthropology, followed by different case studies from New Guinea, Sardinia, Indonesia and northern Germany. In the twenty-first century, the rise of the Anthropocene goes hand in hand with a crisis of environmentalism. Postenvironmentalism is a reaction to a profound ontological and epistemological crisis, and at the same time it bears traces of an intellectual and political movement. The chapter describes postenvironmentalism via the conflict about wind turbines on the mountain ridges of Vermont. It presents examples from the author own fieldwork in Northern Friesland, Germany, which reflect this conflict constellation in a different way.
