Overview

As climate change becomes an increasingly important part of public discourse, the relationship between time in nature and history is changing. Nature can no longer be considered a slow and immobile background to human history, and the future can no longer be viewed as open and detached from the past. Times of History, Times of Nature engages with this historical shift in temporal sensibilities through a combination of detailed case studies and synthesizing efforts. Focusing on the history of knowledge, media theory, and environmental humanities, this volume explores the rich and nuanced notions of time and temporality that have emerged in response to climate change.

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Author:   Anders Ekström ,  Staffan Bergwik
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781800733237

ISBN 10:   1800733232
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   11 February 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of illustrations Introduction: Dividing Times Staffan Bergwik and Anders Ekström PART I: ERAS OF SYNCHRONIZATION Chapter 1. Stratigraphies of Time and History: Beyond the Outrages upon Humanity's Self-Love Helge Jordheim Chapter 2. The Production and Distribution of Synchronized Time in Sweden, 1850-1914 Gustav Holmberg Chapter 3. Environmental Times: Synchronizing Human-Earth Temporalities from Annales to Anthropocene, 1920s to 2020s Sverker Sörlin PART II: BIOCULTURAL TIMES Chapter 4. Forest Time and the Passions of Economic Man Julia Nordblad Chapter 5. Little Red Ring Binders: Early Red List Temporalities Marit Ruge Bjærke Chapter 6. Oil and Vikings: Temporal Alignments within Norwegian Petroleum Fields Lise Camilla Ruud PART III: TIME-BINDING KNOWLEDGES AND VISUAL GENRES Chapter 7. Temporal Poetics of Planetary Transformations: Alexander von Humboldt and the Geo-Anthropological History of the Americas Adam Wickberg Månsson Chapter 8. Discovering Moravian History: The Many Times and Sources of an Unknown Land, c. 1830-1860 Emma Hagström Molin Chapter 9. Synchronising Nature and Culture: Mediating Time in Geochronology and Dendrochronology 1900-1945 Staffan Bergwik PART IV: RECORDING AND ENVISIONING CLIMATE TIMES Chapter 10. On Record: Political Temperature and the Temporalities of Climate Change Eric Paglia and Erik Isberg Chapter 11. Model Time and Target Years: On the End of Time in IPCC Futures Nina Wormbs Chapter 12. Encountering the Geological Live: Temporalization in the Age of Natural Media Anders Ekström Conclusion Staffan Bergwik and Anders Ekström

Reviews

Climate unsettles our current knowledge system; we must rethink our understanding of time. This collected volume is an ambitious effort, and very forward-looking. The volume editors recognize that we are entering a conceptual realm where we might not recognize the new. * Stefan Tanafa, University of California San Diego

Author Information

Anders Ekström is a Professor at the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University, Sweden. His most recent publications include a co-edited volume on the History of Participatory Media (Routledge, 2011), the article ""Remediation, Time and Disaster"", in Theory, Culture & Society 33:5 (2016), and a chapter for the Routledge Handbook of Museum Media and Communication (2019).

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