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- Lidström, Susanna, et al.
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Rising seas : facts, fictions and aquaria
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In: Curating the future. - : Routledge. ; , s. 230-239
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In 2008 the BBC aired a new series titled Oceans, intended, as stated by explorer Paul Rose in the introduction to each episode, to “understand the earth’s oceans and put them on a human scale.” The series follows a team of ocean explorers that includes, in addition to two oceanographers, a marine archaeologist and an “environmentalist, " the grandson of JacquesYves Cousteau. The BBC team included both human and scientific perspectives on the ocean as well as acknowledgment of the popular history of deep-sea exploration. Through - out the series, these different themes are pursued in tandem with each other as dives in search of rare and spectacular marine species and phenomena are accompanied by investigations of shipwrecks and discussions about effects of climate change on marine environments. In sharp contrast to the BBC’s preceding series about the sea, Blue Planet (2001), Oceans was very inclusive of the human dimensions of the marine world, manifest in explorations of past shipwrecks, in the present through the dives designed for the camera, and in the reflective discussions and commentaries from the team. The previous series portrayed the world’s oceans as unknown and alien environments with little or no human presence (all humans were behind cameras). It was narrated through the iconic voice of David Attenborough accompanied by dramatic music characteristic of classic nature documentaries.
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- Bergthaller, Hannes, et al.
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Mapping Common Ground : Ecocriticism, Environmental History, and the Environmental Humanities
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In: Environmental Humanities. - 2201-1919. ; 5, s. 261-276
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The emergence of the environmental humanities presents a unique opportunity for scholarship to tackle the human dimensions of the environmental crisis. It might finally allow such work to attain the critical mass it needs to break out of customary disciplinary confines and reach a wider public, at a time when natural scientists have begun to acknowledge that an understanding of the environmental crisis must include insights from the humanities and social sciences. In order to realize this potential, scholars in the environmental humanities need to map the common ground on which close interdisciplinary cooperation will be possible. This essay takes up this task with regard to two fields that have embraced the environmental humanities with particular fervour, namely ecocriticism and environmental history. After outlining an ideal of slow scholarship which cultivates thinking across different spatiotemporal scales and seeks to sustain meaningful public debate, the essay argues that both ecocriticism and environmental history are concerned with practices of environing: each studies the material and symbolic transformations by which “the environment” is configured as a space for human action. Three areas of research are singled out as offering promising models for cooperation between ecocriticism and environmental history: eco-historicism, environmental justice, and new materialism. Bringing the fruits of such efforts to a wider audience will require environmental humanities scholars to experiment with new ways of organizing and disseminating knowledge.
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- Lidström, Susanna, et al.
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Decline and diversity in Swedish seas: Environmental narratives in marine history, science and policy
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In: Ambio. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0044-7447 .- 1654-7209. ; 49, s. 1114-1121
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Before the mid-twentieth century, there was no comprehensive narrative about empirical conditions in Swedish seas. Around 1970, this view changed profoundly. In line with growing research and the emergence of ‘the environment’ as a defining concept, conditions in Swedish seas were framed as a ‘narrative of decline’. Marine scientists have since recorded more diverse developments than are described by an overall declensionist narrative. Data show trends of interrupted decline, variability and even recovery, taking place at least partly in response to effective policy and legislation. We suggest that beyond the specialised fields of marine sciences and marine environmental history, the overarching narrative of decline has persisted, paying little attention to local and regional particularities as well as cultural and political dimensions of the marine environment. This overly uniform narrative risks obscuring historical reality and, hence, fails to adequately inform policy and the public about developments and outcomes of interventions in Swedish seas. © 2019, The Author(s).
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- Lidström, Susanna
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Sea-level rise in public science writing : history, science and reductionism
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Presentation Abstract: Sea-level rise is potentially one of the most dramatic effects of climate change. In the past few years, a rush of literary non-fiction books have appeared that aim to explain and communicate this threat to the public. This paper critiques how sea-level rise is framed in many of those books, on two accounts. First, anthropogenic sea-level change is frequently framed by accounts of natural variations of sea level in earth history, focusing on geological rather than societal processes. Second, single and sudden floods are often used to exemplify sea-level rise in ways that draw attention away from incremental environmental change in favour of fast-paced but de-contextualised events. The paper argues that both these frames de-politicise sea-level rise and may steer public understanding and discussion away from relevant political, cultural and ethical considerations, thereby obstructing rather than facilitating appropriate negotiations in response to predicted sea-level rise.
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- Lidström, Susanna
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Sea-level rise in public science writing : history, science and reductionism
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In the past few years, a rush of literary non-fiction books have appeared that aim to explain the threat of rising seas to the public. In this talk Susanna Lindstrom critiques how sea-level rise is framed in many of those books, on two accounts. First, anthropogenic sea-level change is frequently framed by accounts of natural variations of sea level in earth history, focusing on geological rather than societal processes. Second, single and sudden floods are often used to exemplify sea-level rise in ways that draw attention away from incremental environmental change in favor of fast-paced but de-contextualized events. Lindstrom’s presentation argues that both these frames de-politicize sea-level rise and may steer public understanding and discussion away from relevant social, cultural and ethical considerations. As examples of climate reductionism, these depictions may obstruct rather than facilitate appropriate negotiations in response to predicted sea-level rise.Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Department of Literature.
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