Times of history, times of nature : temporalization and the limits of modern knowledge / edited by Anders Ekström and Staffan Bergwik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ekström, Anders, 1965- editor.

Bergwik, Staffan, editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Time and the world ; v. 5.

Time and the world : interdisciplinary studies in cultural transformations ; volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Periodization.

History.

Time--Philosophy.

Time.

Time--History.

Human ecology--Historiography.

Human ecology.

Natural history--Philosophy.

Natural history.

Change.

Historiography.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 349 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2022.

Summary:

"As climate change becomes an increasingly important part of public discourse, the relationship between nature and time is changing. Nature can no longer considered to be 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Dividing times / Staffan Bergwik and Anders Ekström

Stratigraphies of time and history : beyond the outrages upon humanity's self-love / Helge Jordheim

The production and distribution of synchronized time in Sweden, 1850-1914 / Gustav Holmberg

Environmental times : synchronizing human-earth temporalities from annales to anthropocene, 1920s-2020s / Sverker Sörlin

Forest time and the passions of economic man / Julia Nordblad

Little red ring binders : early red list temporalities / Marit Ruge Bjærke

Oil and Vikings : temporal alignments within Norwegian petroleum fields / Lise Camilla Ruud

Temporal poetics of planetary transformations : Alexander von Humboldt and the geo-anthropological history of the Americas / Adam Wickberg

Discovering Moravian history : the many times and sources of an unknown land, 1830-1860 / Emma Hagström Molin

Synchronizing nature and culture : mediating time in geochronology and dendrochronology, 1900-1945 / Staffan Bergwik

On record : political temperature and the temporalities of climate change / Eric Paglia and Erik Isberg

Model time and target years : on the end of time in IPCC futures / Nina Wormbs

Encountering the geological live : temporalization in the age of natural media / Anders Ekström.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Times of history, times of nature

ISBN:

9781800733237

1800733232

OCLC:

1292530900