I wrote another piece on humor, satire, and the environmental crisis. This time with a focus on veganism and comedic practices in the Scandinavia. Freely available in open-access: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

We published a book! Grotesque Anthropocene: Disfigured Environments across Media explores the perverse affects and effects that emerge when art and popular culture refuse reverence for nostalgic views on nature. Avilable in open access - check it out: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

How do #DeepSeaMining companies legitimise their exploitation of the deep ocean? And how have their communication strategies evolved over time to adapt to the changing political climate of the #Anthropocene? We explore this question in our most recent article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The future of mining or mining the future? Mapping corporate deep sea mining discourses

For decades now a disparate coalition of actors have been working to transition the speculative promise of deep-sea mining (DSM) into a concrete reali…

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My reception study of Malte Tellerup's radical activist literature is finally out! Published with the journal Metacritic, the article is available in open access via the link below (make sure to get the PDF version): www.metacriticjournal.com/getfile/0000...

This one was more than a year in the making - very happy with the result! We've held literary workshops all over Europe, and developed what I think is a really promising methodology. You can read much more about it in our special issue with Metacritic, available in open-access now: lnkd.in/g73nPTb5

Hectic June, but glad I squeezed in UCL’s Corpus Linguistics Summer School - mostly attended in transit! A great refresher in #digitalmethods + #corpuslinguistics with real promise for #EnvironmentalHumanities + #EmpiricalEcocriticism. Thanks to Sean Wallis, Bas Aarts, Beth Malory & Guyanne Wilson!

Just wrapped two energising and special days in Bergamo with the NEST network, where we had no panels, no scripts, no endless papers, just close thinking on narrative, crisis & care. Huge thanks to my co-organisers + all involved. The first phase is done, but NEST lives on. 🔗 nestresearchnetwork.org

Just a few days left (deadline Feb 10) to share with us your wonderful, creative proposals for our in-person conference "Narratives for Ecological and Sustainable Transition(s): Nesting Theory and Praxis through Literature-based Workshops” in Bergamo. Discover more at: lnkd.in/gTPGs5zK

Are you working with environmental narratives, environmental awareness, or collective action in the context of ecological crisis? Then join us for our in-person conference in Bergamo this summer! Deadline for abstracts: 10 February 2025 Full call: www.nestresearchnetwork.org/conference-2...

I'm very excited to finally see this study's findings by @schneidermayers.bsky.social, @wxpxm.bsky.social and co. Freely available until January 21st via the link below.

Empirical Ecocriticism@eecocriticism.bsky.social · 2y ago

Can climate fiction inspire climate action? A new cross-cultural and empirical study examines how fear and hope in storytelling impact readers in India and the USA. Check it out here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kCDN,6w-X... #climatefiction #climateaction #dystopia #utopia #ambitopia

Check out the latest book by ESEH President Wilko Graf von Hardenberg!

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science@mpiwg.bsky.social · 2y ago

"We tend to forget that sea level is—far from a natural index—a product of technically and culturally determined assumptions." 🌊📏 New book by environmental historian Wilko Graf von Hardenberg: "Sea Level: A History" 🔗 bit.ly/49aou1K #HistSci #EnvHist #Oceanography

I am happy to share our CFP on "Narratives for Ecological and Sustainable Transition(s): Transdisciplinary Trajectories Across Theory and Practice" with Metacritic. Read the full CFP here: www.metacriticjournal.com/files/CFP-MJ... Organized as part of the NEST network: www.nestresearchnetwork.org