Jeremy Davies
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604525 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeremy Davies |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeremy |
| FAMILY NAME | Davies |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8359-6265 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Before the Great Acceleration
This paper renews the argument for the Anthropocene as a formal unit of geological time by reassessing the so-called Great Acceleration. In March 2024, the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy rejected a proposal to formalise the Anthropocene at series/epoch level, with a base in 1952 CE. I show that there is still a strong case for amending the Geological Time Scale to reflect the recent departure of the Earth System from the Holocene envelo…
Men changing nappies
Currently the number of men working in early years education in England is very low at 2%. This stubbornly resistant workforce pattern matters because it perpetuates the entrenched gender stereotype of young children’s education and care as women’s work. It is extraordinary to find this corner of gender statis in a world that is supposedly in the grip of a gender revolution. This gender revolution does not appear to have impacted on, or even dent…
The Birth of the Anthropocene
The world faces an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen for three million years, and the greatest mass extinction since the time of the dinosaurs appears to be underway. Such far-reaching changes suggest something remarkable: the beginning of a new geological epoch. It has been called the Anthropocene. The Birth of the Anthropocene shows how this epochal transformation puts the d…
Lyric's Diurnal Course
This essay extends the "geologic turn" in the humanities to consider the diurnal, monthly, and annual cycles through which we experience Earth's mobility with respect to other astronomical objects. I trace relationships between geological time and lyric temporality via a reading of Byron's "So We'll Go No More A Roving."
Romantic ecocriticism
This essay examines the origins, development, and future of Romantic ecocriticism. British Romanticism has always been central to discussions of literature and the environment. Here, I offer the most extensive assessment to date of relevant scholarship. I concentrate on book‐length studies of British literature circa 1780–1830, generally excluding books about individual authors. I close by outlining a new agenda for the field. Instead of claiming…
Just start digging
A written interview on memory and heritage and looking back on the arguments presented in my first three books
Sustainable nostalgia
The ecological ideal of ‘sustainability’ is defensible, but controversial. It valorizes a certain way of inhabiting the world not by defining it directly, but by imagining its perpetual reproduction. I argue that what sustainability offers us is a way of being nostalgic for the future.The sustainable present will become our true home because it is the point to which the future will always recur; we look nostalgically to the future because it is t…
Nostalgia and the shapes of history
Nostalgia and the Shapes of History A conference held at Queen Mary, University of London, 13—14 June 2008
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access JONATHAN DAVIES JONATHAN DAVIES University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 447, June 1997, Pages 725–726, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.447.725 Published: 01 June 1997
Nostalgia and the shapes of history
Romantic ecocriticism
This essay examines the origins, development, and future of Romantic ecocriticism. British Romanticism has always been central to discussions of literature and the environment. Here, I offer the most extensive assessment to date of relevant scholarship. I concentrate on book‐length studies of British literature circa 1780–1830, generally excluding books about individual authors. I close by outlining a new agenda for the field. Instead of claiming…
Sustainable nostalgia
The ecological ideal of ‘sustainability’ is defensible, but controversial. It valorizes a certain way of inhabiting the world not by defining it directly, but by imagining its perpetual reproduction. I argue that what sustainability offers us is a way of being nostalgic for the future.The sustainable present will become our true home because it is the point to which the future will always recur; we look nostalgically to the future because it is t…
Just start digging
A written interview on memory and heritage and looking back on the arguments presented in my first three books
Men changing nappies
Currently the number of men working in early years education in England is very low at 2%. This stubbornly resistant workforce pattern matters because it perpetuates the entrenched gender stereotype of young children’s education and care as women’s work. It is extraordinary to find this corner of gender statis in a world that is supposedly in the grip of a gender revolution. This gender revolution does not appear to have impacted on, or even dent…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access JONATHAN DAVIES JONATHAN DAVIES University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 447, June 1997, Pages 725–726, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.447.725 Published: 01 June 1997
Nostalgia and the Shapes of History A conference held at Queen Mary, University of London, 13—14 June 2008
Just start digging
A written interview on memory and heritage and looking back on the arguments presented in my first three books
Sustainable nostalgia
The ecological ideal of ‘sustainability’ is defensible, but controversial. It valorizes a certain way of inhabiting the world not by defining it directly, but by imagining its perpetual reproduction. I argue that what sustainability offers us is a way of being nostalgic for the future.The sustainable present will become our true home because it is the point to which the future will always recur; we look nostalgically to the future because it is t…
Nostalgia and the shapes of history
Romantic ecocriticism
This essay examines the origins, development, and future of Romantic ecocriticism. British Romanticism has always been central to discussions of literature and the environment. Here, I offer the most extensive assessment to date of relevant scholarship. I concentrate on book‐length studies of British literature circa 1780–1830, generally excluding books about individual authors. I close by outlining a new agenda for the field. Instead of claiming…
The Birth of the Anthropocene
The world faces an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen for three million years, and the greatest mass extinction since the time of the dinosaurs appears to be underway. Such far-reaching changes suggest something remarkable: the beginning of a new geological epoch. It has been called the Anthropocene. The Birth of the Anthropocene shows how this epochal transformation puts the d…
Lyric's Diurnal Course
This essay extends the "geologic turn" in the humanities to consider the diurnal, monthly, and annual cycles through which we experience Earth's mobility with respect to other astronomical objects. I trace relationships between geological time and lyric temporality via a reading of Byron's "So We'll Go No More A Roving."
Men changing nappies
Currently the number of men working in early years education in England is very low at 2%. This stubbornly resistant workforce pattern matters because it perpetuates the entrenched gender stereotype of young children’s education and care as women’s work. It is extraordinary to find this corner of gender statis in a world that is supposedly in the grip of a gender revolution. This gender revolution does not appear to have impacted on, or even dent…
Before the Great Acceleration
This paper renews the argument for the Anthropocene as a formal unit of geological time by reassessing the so-called Great Acceleration. In March 2024, the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy rejected a proposal to formalise the Anthropocene at series/epoch level, with a base in 1952 CE. I show that there is still a strong case for amending the Geological Time Scale to reflect the recent departure of the Earth System from the Holocene envelo…
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