MIT Press, October 2019 This groundbreaking book brings together environmental history and the history of emotions to examine the motivations behind species conservation actions. In Recovering Lost Species in the Modern Age, Dolly Jørgensen uses the environmental histories of reintroduction, rewilding, and resurrection to view the modern conservation paradigm of the…
Green Letters 23 (2019): 54-67 Abstract: This article analyses how four science fiction stories frame whale endangerment and salvation as a problem of ecosystem service loss: Arthur C. Clarke’s The Deep Range (1957), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), the Doctor Who episode ‘The Beast Below’ (2010), and T.J. Bass’s The Godwhale(1974). It uses the four…
Dolly Jørgensen and Finn Arne Jørgensen, “Aesthetics of Energy Landscapes,” Environment, Space, Place 10, no. 1 (2018): 1-14 Abstract: Energy landscapes are entangled with technological infrastructures. Interro- gating these infrastructures is a critical move for the environmental humani- ties, as these infrastructures carry ideas as well as power across the…
In Animals Count: How Population Size Matters in Animal-Human Relations, ed. Nancy Cushing and Jodi Frawley, 183-199. Routledge. This article is the last chapter in the book Animals Count which looks at the ways in which the size of an animal population impacts how they are viewed by humans and, conversely,…
In Animal History in the Modern City: Exploring Liminality, ed. Clemens Wischermann, Aline Steinbrecher, and Philip Howell, 221-237 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018) Abstract: In this article, apply the broader STS concept of domestication to an investigation of urban animals: How are urban animals domesticated in the sense of finding a place…
In Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History, edited by Edward Jones-Imhotep and Tina Adcock, 348-357 (UBC Press, 2018) Abstract: When I was asked to write a closing reflection on this volume on science and technology in Canadian history, I immediately thought of paper money as a symbol of…
Dolly Jørgensen, “Beastly belonging in the premodern north,” In Visions of North in Premodern Europe, ed. Dolly Jørgensen and Virginia Langum (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018), 183-205. In this chapter, I examine animal images on maps of medieval and early modern Scandinavia to expose how the North and its fauna were understood…
Dolly Jørgensen and Virginia Langum, “Envisioning north from a premodern perspective,” in Visions of North in Premodern Europe, ed. Dolly Jørgensen and Virginia Langum (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018), 1-11. This is the introduction to our volume exploring who and what was in the North according to people in the ancient, medieval,…
Visons of North in Premodern Europe (Brepols, 2018) examines where, who, and what was envisioned as North in the Premodern era. The North has long attracted attention, not simply as a circumpolar geographical location, but also as an ideological space, a place that is ‘made’ through the understanding, imagination, and interactions…
Water Alternatives 10, no. 3 (2017): 840-52. ABSTRACT: In spite of general support for removal of dam structures within the ecological sciences community, local residents sometimes contest dam removals. This article examines the competing ideas of ‘natural’ and ‘nature’ that may surface in a dam removal controversy. Using the conflict…