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Gardening is not the only project doing cultural historical case studies of the Anthropocene in the Nordic. The new anthology Cultural History and the Anthropocene: old turns, new encounters is a collaboration between three related research projects: This open access collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and contributions of cultural history to contemporary and cross-disciplinary discussions of the Anthropocene. Organised into three key sections, it gives a concise and critical overview of interdisciplinary Continue reading Cultural history and the Anthropocene→

This week the popular science book Natur på ville veier? Fremmede arter og vi som flytter dem was published – a title which translates something like “Nature gone wild? Alien species and we who move them”. In the book, Marit Ruge Bjærke presents a number of stories of so-called invasive alien species in Norway, such as red king crabs, sea vomit, lilacs and wild boars, and use them to discuss the political, economic, cultural and Continue reading New book – and book launch→