Peder Anker
Biographic Data
| ID | 1008661 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peder Anker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peder |
| FAMILY NAME | Anker |
| SIGNATURE | ANKER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0017-5199 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Marion Grau, Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Identity
Marion Grau, Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Identity: Reconstructing Sacred Geographies in Norway (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021), viii + 249pp., £48.00 (cloth), ISBN: 9780197598634
Cycles and circulation
We invite systematic consideration of the metaphors of cycles and circulation as a long-term theme in the history of the life and environmental sciences and medicine. Ubiquitous in ancient religious and philosophical traditions, especially in representing the seasons and the motions of celestial bodies, circles once symbolized perfection. Over the centuries cyclic images in western medicine, natural philosophy, natural history and eventually biol…
The Power of the Periphery
What is the source of Norway's culture of environmental harmony in our troubled world? Exploring the role of Norwegian scholar-activists of the late twentieth century, Peder Anker examines how they portrayed their country as a place of environmental stability in a world filled with tension. In contrast with societies dirtied by the hot and cold wars of the twentieth century, Norway's power, they argued, lay in the pristine, ideal natural environm…
R ohan D eb R oy . Malarial Subjects
Rohan Deb Roy’s Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909, is an excellent book that covers the early history of malaria in British India, explaining how quinine became its chief remedy. While many historians of medicine have focused on physicians, pharmacists, and patients, Roy unveils a deeper history of how malaria was framed as a disease culturally, socially, politically, and environmentally. Inspired by th…
Panu Pihkala, Early Ecotheology and Joseph Sittler
Panu Pihkala, Early Ecotheology and Joseph Sittler (Zürich: Lit Verlag, 2017), 306pp., €44.90 (pbk), ISBN: 978-3-643-90837-7
The Call for a New Ecotheology in Norway
The call for a new ecotheology in Norway began in the early 1970s with environmentally concerned deep ecologists and continued within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway and the university system. Church officials and intellectuals saw ecotheology as an effective way of engaging the young in caring for the Creation. Alongside the eco-philosophical projects of redefining the natural, the deep ecologists also sought to renew religious faith. …
Entries
Environment and empire - By William Beinart and Lotte Hughes
Graphic Language
Environmental debates are greatly indebted to artistic communication. This article discusses the work of the former faculty member of the German Bauhaus school, Herbert Bayer, who introduced modernist imagery in relation to globalization, conservation values, and maps dealing with environmental concerns in the United States. His Romantic defense of environmental design demonstrates that the humanist legacy of modernism has made more constructive …
Buckminster Fuller as Captain of Spaceship Earth
Idle Pondering About Environmental Politics
From Enslavement to Environmentalism
Science as a Vacation
Nature’S Democrats
British Naturalists in the Contact Zone
A Timely History of Ignorance
The Ecological Colonization of Space
Tropical Imagination
A vindication of the rights of brutes
(2004). A vindication of the rights of brutes. Philosophy & Geography: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 259-264
The philosopher's cabin and the household of nature
The etymological origin of ecology in the human house is the point of departure of this article. It argues that oikos is not merely a vague metaphor for ecology, but that built households provide a key to understanding the household of nature. Three households support this claim: the cabins of Henry Thoreau, Aldo Leopold and Arne Nœss. The article suggests that their views on the household of nature stand in direct relationship with their respect…
Environmental History versus History of Science
(2002). Environmental History versus History of Science. Reviews in Anthropology: Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 301-322
Imperial Ecology
From 1895 to the founding of the United Nations in 1945, the promising new science of ecology flourished in the British Empire. Anker asks why ecology expanded so rapidly and how a handful of influential scientists and politicians established a tripartite ecology of nature, knowledge, and society.
The Dream of the Biocentric Community and the Structure of Utopias1
This paper examines the ideal of community as imagined by Arne Naess and the Deep Ecology Movement. In particular the authors address such questions as: Is pluralism of lifestyles reconcilable with the main ideas of the biocentric community? Is liberal justice possible within it? And how realistic is the proposal of education towards a 'biocentric identity'? The analysis shows that, while the deep ecological vision is by no means 'fascist' as som…
The Ecological Colonization of Space
Cycles and circulation
We invite systematic consideration of the metaphors of cycles and circulation as a long-term theme in the history of the life and environmental sciences and medicine. Ubiquitous in ancient religious and philosophical traditions, especially in representing the seasons and the motions of celestial bodies, circles once symbolized perfection. Over the centuries cyclic images in western medicine, natural philosophy, natural history and eventually biol…
Buckminster Fuller as Captain of Spaceship Earth
The Power of the Periphery
What is the source of Norway's culture of environmental harmony in our troubled world? Exploring the role of Norwegian scholar-activists of the late twentieth century, Peder Anker examines how they portrayed their country as a place of environmental stability in a world filled with tension. In contrast with societies dirtied by the hot and cold wars of the twentieth century, Norway's power, they argued, lay in the pristine, ideal natural environm…
Environmental History versus History of Science
(2002). Environmental History versus History of Science. Reviews in Anthropology: Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 301-322
Graphic Language
Environmental debates are greatly indebted to artistic communication. This article discusses the work of the former faculty member of the German Bauhaus school, Herbert Bayer, who introduced modernist imagery in relation to globalization, conservation values, and maps dealing with environmental concerns in the United States. His Romantic defense of environmental design demonstrates that the humanist legacy of modernism has made more constructive …
The Dream of the Biocentric Community and the Structure of Utopias1
This paper examines the ideal of community as imagined by Arne Naess and the Deep Ecology Movement. In particular the authors address such questions as: Is pluralism of lifestyles reconcilable with the main ideas of the biocentric community? Is liberal justice possible within it? And how realistic is the proposal of education towards a 'biocentric identity'? The analysis shows that, while the deep ecological vision is by no means 'fascist' as som…
The Call for a New Ecotheology in Norway
The call for a new ecotheology in Norway began in the early 1970s with environmentally concerned deep ecologists and continued within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway and the university system. Church officials and intellectuals saw ecotheology as an effective way of engaging the young in caring for the Creation. Alongside the eco-philosophical projects of redefining the natural, the deep ecologists also sought to renew religious faith. …
Science as a Vacation
The philosopher's cabin and the household of nature
The etymological origin of ecology in the human house is the point of departure of this article. It argues that oikos is not merely a vague metaphor for ecology, but that built households provide a key to understanding the household of nature. Three households support this claim: the cabins of Henry Thoreau, Aldo Leopold and Arne Nœss. The article suggests that their views on the household of nature stand in direct relationship with their respect…
The Dream of the Biocentric Community and the Structure of Utopias1
This paper examines the ideal of community as imagined by Arne Naess and the Deep Ecology Movement. In particular the authors address such questions as: Is pluralism of lifestyles reconcilable with the main ideas of the biocentric community? Is liberal justice possible within it? And how realistic is the proposal of education towards a 'biocentric identity'? The analysis shows that, while the deep ecological vision is by no means 'fascist' as som…
Imperial Ecology
From 1895 to the founding of the United Nations in 1945, the promising new science of ecology flourished in the British Empire. Anker asks why ecology expanded so rapidly and how a handful of influential scientists and politicians established a tripartite ecology of nature, knowledge, and society.
Environmental History versus History of Science
(2002). Environmental History versus History of Science. Reviews in Anthropology: Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 301-322
The philosopher's cabin and the household of nature
The etymological origin of ecology in the human house is the point of departure of this article. It argues that oikos is not merely a vague metaphor for ecology, but that built households provide a key to understanding the household of nature. Three households support this claim: the cabins of Henry Thoreau, Aldo Leopold and Arne Nœss. The article suggests that their views on the household of nature stand in direct relationship with their respect…
Tropical Imagination
A vindication of the rights of brutes
(2004). A vindication of the rights of brutes. Philosophy & Geography: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 259-264
British Naturalists in the Contact Zone
A Timely History of Ignorance
The Ecological Colonization of Space
Nature’S Democrats
Graphic Language
Environmental debates are greatly indebted to artistic communication. This article discusses the work of the former faculty member of the German Bauhaus school, Herbert Bayer, who introduced modernist imagery in relation to globalization, conservation values, and maps dealing with environmental concerns in the United States. His Romantic defense of environmental design demonstrates that the humanist legacy of modernism has made more constructive …
Buckminster Fuller as Captain of Spaceship Earth
Idle Pondering About Environmental Politics
From Enslavement to Environmentalism
Science as a Vacation
Environment and empire - By William Beinart and Lotte Hughes
Entries
The Call for a New Ecotheology in Norway
The call for a new ecotheology in Norway began in the early 1970s with environmentally concerned deep ecologists and continued within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway and the university system. Church officials and intellectuals saw ecotheology as an effective way of engaging the young in caring for the Creation. Alongside the eco-philosophical projects of redefining the natural, the deep ecologists also sought to renew religious faith. …
Panu Pihkala, Early Ecotheology and Joseph Sittler
Panu Pihkala, Early Ecotheology and Joseph Sittler (Zürich: Lit Verlag, 2017), 306pp., €44.90 (pbk), ISBN: 978-3-643-90837-7
R ohan D eb R oy . Malarial Subjects
Rohan Deb Roy’s Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909, is an excellent book that covers the early history of malaria in British India, explaining how quinine became its chief remedy. While many historians of medicine have focused on physicians, pharmacists, and patients, Roy unveils a deeper history of how malaria was framed as a disease culturally, socially, politically, and environmentally. Inspired by th…
The Power of the Periphery
What is the source of Norway's culture of environmental harmony in our troubled world? Exploring the role of Norwegian scholar-activists of the late twentieth century, Peder Anker examines how they portrayed their country as a place of environmental stability in a world filled with tension. In contrast with societies dirtied by the hot and cold wars of the twentieth century, Norway's power, they argued, lay in the pristine, ideal natural environm…
Cycles and circulation
We invite systematic consideration of the metaphors of cycles and circulation as a long-term theme in the history of the life and environmental sciences and medicine. Ubiquitous in ancient religious and philosophical traditions, especially in representing the seasons and the motions of celestial bodies, circles once symbolized perfection. Over the centuries cyclic images in western medicine, natural philosophy, natural history and eventually biol…
Marion Grau, Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Identity
Marion Grau, Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Identity: Reconstructing Sacred Geographies in Norway (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021), viii + 249pp., £48.00 (cloth), ISBN: 9780197598634
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