D Jorgensen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3233 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | D Jorgensen |
| NOMBRES | D |
| APELLIDO | Jorgensen |
| FIRMA | JORGENSEN D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Stavanger |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5391-9374 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 107 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Carbon cultures of progress in history of technology museums
The way we narrate our industrial heritage and make its energy reliance visible or invisible matters. In this article, we examine how history of technology museums cultivate narratives of progress and what that might mean for rethinking cultural heritage. We ask what it would mean to expose the fossil fuels that power the engines of industrialisation and the environmental damage those fuels have wrought as part of our industrialisation cultural l…
Sander Govaerts, Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe
Isn’t All Environmental Humanities “Environmental Humanities in Practice”
The Passenger Pigeon’s Past on Display for the Future
Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West
Over a millennium ago, images began to appear in Christian church settings—as decorations of holy book covers, within the pages of books, and on church walls—of Jesus exorcizing a multitude of demons, named Legion, from a man into a herd of pigs who then rush into the sea and drown. In using this biblical story to frame the narrative of Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West, Jamie Kreiner makes clear the ambiguities of the pig as “both unhol…
Extinction and the End of Futures
Extinction, in biological terms, is the end of an evolutionary line, a potential future cutoff. It involves a transition between the historical past in which a species was biologically alive and a future in which it isn't, a transition from extant to extinct. In this contribution to the "Historical Futures" series, I examine two aspects of extinction histories: transition and anticipation. First, I argue that scholars need to understand extinctio…
Slowing Time in the Museum in a Period of Rapid Extinction
Extinction of nonhuman species, as well as human-induced environmental change in general, is happening at a frighteningly fast pace. A recent global joint scientific assessment suggests that around a million animal and plant species are currently threatened with extinction because of human activity. In this article, we propose that museums have an opportunity to slow time for their visitors in a period of rapid extinction. First, we discuss the r…
Coda on Curation
An encounter in a museum—viewing objects in a display case or a wall filled with art—is always an encounter with curation. Science fiction gives insights into the power inherent in the curator’s role. Although curators are scarce in science fiction, one major science fiction character who is deliberately positioned by writers as a curator stands out: the Doctor of the popular British television series Doctor Who . As a way of wrapping up this col…
Making Specimens Sacred
In this chapter, we show that animal remains of extinct species can be ascribed a sacred character. Using the notion of “sacred” as “set apart” per Émile Durkheim, we argue that the conjunction of preparation, placement, and cultural value of particular extinct specimens can make them into sacred objects. We examine the sacredness of two specimens on display: the last Pinta giant tortoise, Solitario Jorge, who died in 2012 and is now displayed at…
Roads to Health
Reviewed by: Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy by Guy Geltner Dolly Jørgensen Guy Geltner. Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2019. x + 262 pp. Ill. $65.00 (978-0-8122-5135-7). In the midst of a global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, comparisons to historical pandemics come up frequently. Will as many die as in the 1918 influenza pan…
Witnessing the End of Life As We Know It
Witnessing the End of Life As We Know It David Attenborough: A Life on our Planet. Directed by Alastair Fothergill. Altitude Film Entertainment/Silverback Films/World Wildlife Fund, 2020. 83 minutes. Dolly Jørgensen Dolly Jørgensen professor of history at the University of Stavanger in Norway Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Environmental History, Volume 26, Issue 2, April 2021…
Erasing the extinct
The Caribbean monk seal (Monachus tropicalis), the only seal species native to Central America, was declared extinct in 2008, with the last confirmed sighting in 1952. This species historically had a broad range throughout the gulf of Mexico. This article discusses the history of Western science on the monk seal, from its first recorded sighting by a Western colonizer in 1492 to scientific collection in the 1800s and 1900s, as a history of the er…
Bettering Our Stories about Stories about Nature
Both environmental historians and ecocriticism scholars are in the business of simultaneously analysing the stories we tell about the human-nature relationship and creating those stories. Using the case of Kiki, an Aldabra giant tortoise on display in the Muséum national d’Historie naturelle in Paris, I present three potential text types in museum displays which lend themselves to new ecocritical readings: museum labels, biographical displays, an…
Environmental Humanities
Reflections
Teaching the Environmental Humanities
This article provides the first international overview and detailed discussion of teaching in the environmental humanities (EH). It is divided into three parts. The first offers a series of regional overviews: where, when, and how EH teaching is taking place. This part highlights some key regional variability in the uptake of teaching in this area, emphasizing important differences in cultural and pedagogical contexts. The second part is a critic…
After none
As humans have become aware of the extinction or imminent end of non-human animal species over the last 200 years, there have been active attempts to understand, confront, or memorialise the loss of species which have zero individuals remaining. This chapter examines monuments to animal extinction in public settings, covering several different types of public art, including statuary, murals, and funerary forms. Some of the monuments honour partic…
Illuminating Ephemeral Medieval Agricultural History through Manuscript Art
There are objects and practices we would not know existed if we relied only on written texts or archeological evidence to piece together medieval agricultural history. These ephemeral aspects of th
Ecological restoration as objective, target, and tool in international biodiversity policy
Ecological restoration has been mainstreamed in international biodiversity policies in the last five years. I analyze statements about restoration in three international policies: the Convention for Biodiversity Strategic Plan 2011-2020 and Aichi Biodiversity Targets, the Convention for Biodiversity Decision XI/16 on ecosystem restoration, and the European Union's Biodiversity Strategy to 2020. I argue that restoration functions at three differen…
Rethinking rewilding
Modernity and Medieval Muck
This article challenges the common presentation of the medieval street as a mud- and muck-filled cesspit. Using the television episode “Medieval London” of the Filthy Cities series aired by BBC Two in 2011 as a springboard, I discuss the realities of medieval waste management and modern conceptions of it. Through an examination of historical records from London, I show that the early fourteenth-century medieval street was not nearly as filthy as …
Not by Human Hands
Technologies in the hands of humans have turned humans into a force of nature. Environmental historians have increasingly recognised the value of history of technology to explain many environmental changes. Scholarship at the environment-technology junction, deploying ideas developed with the framework of Science and Technology Studies (STS), has revealed the usefulness of seeing the whole constellation of science, technology, and environment as …
Running Amuck? Urban Swine Management in Late Medieval England
Swine as agricultural products were extremely common in the medieval townscape, but pigs are also notoriously damaging if allowed to run amuck This article explores how local governments tried to regulate pig rearing as an integrated element in urban space, arguing that the authorities attempted to control the movement, feeding, and slaughter of swine as much as possible to circumvent damage to goods, crops, and even people. Urban government and …
Damned If You Do, Dammed If You Don't
Dam removal is an increasingly common practice. Dams are removed for various reasons, with safety, economics, and ecosystem restoration being the most common. However, dam removals often cause controversy. Riparian land owners and local communities often have a negative view of removal, and their reasons vary. It may be the loss of recreational benefits such as swimming and boating, loss of cultural and historical context tied to the dam, or fear…
Local government responses to urban river pollution in late medieval England
Rethinking rewilding
Not by Human Hands
Technologies in the hands of humans have turned humans into a force of nature. Environmental historians have increasingly recognised the value of history of technology to explain many environmental changes. Scholarship at the environment-technology junction, deploying ideas developed with the framework of Science and Technology Studies (STS), has revealed the usefulness of seeing the whole constellation of science, technology, and environment as …
Extinction and the End of Futures
Extinction, in biological terms, is the end of an evolutionary line, a potential future cutoff. It involves a transition between the historical past in which a species was biologically alive and a future in which it isn't, a transition from extant to extinct. In this contribution to the "Historical Futures" series, I examine two aspects of extinction histories: transition and anticipation. First, I argue that scholars need to understand extinctio…
Cooperative Sanitation
This article investigates the workings of sanitation technologies in late medieval English and Scandinavian cities through both written and archeological evidence. It defines the roles of city corporations and individuals in the areas of street maintenance and waste management between the years 1350 and 1550. It argues that although the urban environment was managed through seemingly simple technologies, such as latrines and guttered cobblestone …
Slowing Time in the Museum in a Period of Rapid Extinction
Extinction of nonhuman species, as well as human-induced environmental change in general, is happening at a frighteningly fast pace. A recent global joint scientific assessment suggests that around a million animal and plant species are currently threatened with extinction because of human activity. In this article, we propose that museums have an opportunity to slow time for their visitors in a period of rapid extinction. First, we discuss the r…
Erasing the extinct
The Caribbean monk seal (Monachus tropicalis), the only seal species native to Central America, was declared extinct in 2008, with the last confirmed sighting in 1952. This species historically had a broad range throughout the gulf of Mexico. This article discusses the history of Western science on the monk seal, from its first recorded sighting by a Western colonizer in 1492 to scientific collection in the 1800s and 1900s, as a history of the er…
Reflections
Damned If You Do, Dammed If You Don't
Dam removal is an increasingly common practice. Dams are removed for various reasons, with safety, economics, and ecosystem restoration being the most common. However, dam removals often cause controversy. Riparian land owners and local communities often have a negative view of removal, and their reasons vary. It may be the loss of recreational benefits such as swimming and boating, loss of cultural and historical context tied to the dam, or fear…
The Passenger Pigeon’s Past on Display for the Future
Ecological restoration as objective, target, and tool in international biodiversity policy
Ecological restoration has been mainstreamed in international biodiversity policies in the last five years. I analyze statements about restoration in three international policies: the Convention for Biodiversity Strategic Plan 2011-2020 and Aichi Biodiversity Targets, the Convention for Biodiversity Decision XI/16 on ecosystem restoration, and the European Union's Biodiversity Strategy to 2020. I argue that restoration functions at three differen…
Running Amuck? Urban Swine Management in Late Medieval England
Swine as agricultural products were extremely common in the medieval townscape, but pigs are also notoriously damaging if allowed to run amuck This article explores how local governments tried to regulate pig rearing as an integrated element in urban space, arguing that the authorities attempted to control the movement, feeding, and slaughter of swine as much as possible to circumvent damage to goods, crops, and even people. Urban government and …
Local government responses to urban river pollution in late medieval England
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Cooperative Sanitation
This article investigates the workings of sanitation technologies in late medieval English and Scandinavian cities through both written and archeological evidence. It defines the roles of city corporations and individuals in the areas of street maintenance and waste management between the years 1350 and 1550. It argues that although the urban environment was managed through seemingly simple technologies, such as latrines and guttered cobblestone …
Local government responses to urban river pollution in late medieval England
All Good Rule of the Citee”
This article examines how providing one basic city service—sanitation—influenced civic governmental structures from 1400 to 1600 in two of England’s largest provincial cities, Norwich and Coventry, and how those changes meshed with concepts of good rule. Although sanitation services were neither the most costly nor the highest profile activity of city councils, they can be a window into the evolution of governmental structures during the early ph…
Running Amuck? Urban Swine Management in Late Medieval England
Swine as agricultural products were extremely common in the medieval townscape, but pigs are also notoriously damaging if allowed to run amuck This article explores how local governments tried to regulate pig rearing as an integrated element in urban space, arguing that the authorities attempted to control the movement, feeding, and slaughter of swine as much as possible to circumvent damage to goods, crops, and even people. Urban government and …
Damned If You Do, Dammed If You Don't
Dam removal is an increasingly common practice. Dams are removed for various reasons, with safety, economics, and ecosystem restoration being the most common. However, dam removals often cause controversy. Riparian land owners and local communities often have a negative view of removal, and their reasons vary. It may be the loss of recreational benefits such as swimming and boating, loss of cultural and historical context tied to the dam, or fear…
Rethinking rewilding
Modernity and Medieval Muck
This article challenges the common presentation of the medieval street as a mud- and muck-filled cesspit. Using the television episode “Medieval London” of the Filthy Cities series aired by BBC Two in 2011 as a springboard, I discuss the realities of medieval waste management and modern conceptions of it. Through an examination of historical records from London, I show that the early fourteenth-century medieval street was not nearly as filthy as …
Not by Human Hands
Technologies in the hands of humans have turned humans into a force of nature. Environmental historians have increasingly recognised the value of history of technology to explain many environmental changes. Scholarship at the environment-technology junction, deploying ideas developed with the framework of Science and Technology Studies (STS), has revealed the usefulness of seeing the whole constellation of science, technology, and environment as …
Illuminating Ephemeral Medieval Agricultural History through Manuscript Art
There are objects and practices we would not know existed if we relied only on written texts or archeological evidence to piece together medieval agricultural history. These ephemeral aspects of th
Ecological restoration as objective, target, and tool in international biodiversity policy
Ecological restoration has been mainstreamed in international biodiversity policies in the last five years. I analyze statements about restoration in three international policies: the Convention for Biodiversity Strategic Plan 2011-2020 and Aichi Biodiversity Targets, the Convention for Biodiversity Decision XI/16 on ecosystem restoration, and the European Union's Biodiversity Strategy to 2020. I argue that restoration functions at three differen…
After none
As humans have become aware of the extinction or imminent end of non-human animal species over the last 200 years, there have been active attempts to understand, confront, or memorialise the loss of species which have zero individuals remaining. This chapter examines monuments to animal extinction in public settings, covering several different types of public art, including statuary, murals, and funerary forms. Some of the monuments honour partic…
Teaching the Environmental Humanities
This article provides the first international overview and detailed discussion of teaching in the environmental humanities (EH). It is divided into three parts. The first offers a series of regional overviews: where, when, and how EH teaching is taking place. This part highlights some key regional variability in the uptake of teaching in this area, emphasizing important differences in cultural and pedagogical contexts. The second part is a critic…
Bettering Our Stories about Stories about Nature
Both environmental historians and ecocriticism scholars are in the business of simultaneously analysing the stories we tell about the human-nature relationship and creating those stories. Using the case of Kiki, an Aldabra giant tortoise on display in the Muséum national d’Historie naturelle in Paris, I present three potential text types in museum displays which lend themselves to new ecocritical readings: museum labels, biographical displays, an…
Environmental Humanities
Reflections
Making Specimens Sacred
In this chapter, we show that animal remains of extinct species can be ascribed a sacred character. Using the notion of “sacred” as “set apart” per Émile Durkheim, we argue that the conjunction of preparation, placement, and cultural value of particular extinct specimens can make them into sacred objects. We examine the sacredness of two specimens on display: the last Pinta giant tortoise, Solitario Jorge, who died in 2012 and is now displayed at…
Roads to Health
Reviewed by: Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy by Guy Geltner Dolly Jørgensen Guy Geltner. Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2019. x + 262 pp. Ill. $65.00 (978-0-8122-5135-7). In the midst of a global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, comparisons to historical pandemics come up frequently. Will as many die as in the 1918 influenza pan…
Witnessing the End of Life As We Know It
Witnessing the End of Life As We Know It David Attenborough: A Life on our Planet. Directed by Alastair Fothergill. Altitude Film Entertainment/Silverback Films/World Wildlife Fund, 2020. 83 minutes. Dolly Jørgensen Dolly Jørgensen professor of history at the University of Stavanger in Norway Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Environmental History, Volume 26, Issue 2, April 2021…
Erasing the extinct
The Caribbean monk seal (Monachus tropicalis), the only seal species native to Central America, was declared extinct in 2008, with the last confirmed sighting in 1952. This species historically had a broad range throughout the gulf of Mexico. This article discusses the history of Western science on the monk seal, from its first recorded sighting by a Western colonizer in 1492 to scientific collection in the 1800s and 1900s, as a history of the er…
Isn’t All Environmental Humanities “Environmental Humanities in Practice”
The Passenger Pigeon’s Past on Display for the Future
Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West
Over a millennium ago, images began to appear in Christian church settings—as decorations of holy book covers, within the pages of books, and on church walls—of Jesus exorcizing a multitude of demons, named Legion, from a man into a herd of pigs who then rush into the sea and drown. In using this biblical story to frame the narrative of Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West, Jamie Kreiner makes clear the ambiguities of the pig as “both unhol…
Extinction and the End of Futures
Extinction, in biological terms, is the end of an evolutionary line, a potential future cutoff. It involves a transition between the historical past in which a species was biologically alive and a future in which it isn't, a transition from extant to extinct. In this contribution to the "Historical Futures" series, I examine two aspects of extinction histories: transition and anticipation. First, I argue that scholars need to understand extinctio…
Slowing Time in the Museum in a Period of Rapid Extinction
Extinction of nonhuman species, as well as human-induced environmental change in general, is happening at a frighteningly fast pace. A recent global joint scientific assessment suggests that around a million animal and plant species are currently threatened with extinction because of human activity. In this article, we propose that museums have an opportunity to slow time for their visitors in a period of rapid extinction. First, we discuss the r…
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