História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos 28, supl. (2021): 161-183. The Caribbean monk seal (Monachus tropicalis), the only seal species native to Central America, was declared extinct in 2008, with the last confirmed sighting in 1952. This species historically had a broad range throughout the gulf of Mexico. This article discusses the history…
History & Theory 61, no. 2 (2022): 209-218. Extinction, in biological terms, is the end of an evolutionary line, a potential future cutoff. It involves a transition between the historical past in which a species was biologically alive and a future in which it isn’t, a transition from extant to…
Burke V, Jørgensen D, Jørgensen FA. 2020. Museums at home: digital initiatives in response to COVID-19. Norsk museumstidsskrift 6(2): 117-123 This review surveys three types of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, from attempts to replicate the museum visit experience, to alternative replacements making use of online platforms, to initiatives that…
In In Pursuit of Healthy Environments, ed. Esa Ruuskanen and Heini Hakosalo, 13-26. Routledge, 2020. Through a study of English town government sources, this chapter argues that local authorities in the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries regulated craft businesses with an eye on their outputs to the environment that could have…
O’Gorman E et al (including D. Jørgensen). Environmental Humanities 11, no. 2 (2019): 427-460 This article provides the first international overview and detailed discussion of teaching in the environmental humanities (EH). It is divided into three parts. The first offers a series of regional overviews: where, when, and how EH teaching…
Ecozon@ European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 11, no. 2 (2020): 200-207. Both environmental historians and ecocritics are in the business of simultaneously analysing the stories we tell about the human-nature relationship and creating those stories. Using the case of Kiki, an Aldabra giant tortoise on display in the…
Jørgensen D and F Ginn. Environmental Humanities 12, no. 2 (2020): 496-500 In this article, I and Franklin Ginn discuss the field of environmental humanities, how it has changed since the founding of the journal Environmental Humanities, and where we hope the journal will go during our tenure as co-editors.…
Environmental History 25, no. 4 (2020): 626-631, published as part of a special section “Reflections: Environmental History in the Era of COVID-19” Abstract: The global pandemic puts a spotlight on human-animal relations and how human histories are intertwined with animal bodies. Environmental historians have demonstrated a steadily growing interest in…
Published in Conservation’s Roots: Managing for Sustainability in Preindustrial Europe, 1100-1800, ed. Abigail Dowling and Richard Keyser, 31-49 (Berghahn Books, 2020) Domesticated pigs (Sus scrufa) were an integrated component of medieval food production in both city and countryside. This chapter examines strategies for managing pigs in a sustainable fashion in…
Silver Linings: Clouds in Art and Science is a cross-disciplinary anthology that examines clouds from perspectives that intersect both art and science. Through 27 contributions, readers learn about what clouds can be, not only as water droplets and smoke, but also as dust and data, and how they have been interpreted…