Peter Mortensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3735795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Mortensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Mortensen |
| SIGNATURE | MORTENSEN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1622-8272 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From bonus to burden: The cost of ruling from a new(s) perspective
Studies have repeatedly documented the cost of ruling: governing parties generally suffer electoral defeats. We approach this empirical law of political science from the perspective of another empirical law: the incumbency bonus, the fact that incumbents get more media attention than the opposition. Our claim is that the bonus constitutes an electoral liability because it reflects the critical approach of media to government power. News featuring…
Witches’ Milk: Queer Breastfeeding and Alternative Kin-Making in Isak Dinesen’s “The Caryatids”
In this essay, I use the recent convergence of queer, feminist, and ecocritical perspectives under the heading of “queer ecology” to analyse how Danish bilingual author Isak Dinesen (real name: Karen Blixen) deploys breastfeeding in her Gothic story “The Caryatids: An Unfinished Story.” Queer ecology entails critiquing the assumption (or myth) that heterosexual identities, monogamous relationships, consanguineous kinship networks, and reproductiv…
The Juices of the Body: Ecomasculine Fluidification in Two Stories by Isak Dinesen
Gender is a key factor in shaping perceptions of environmental relationships, and moving toward sustainability requires that we rethink dominant ideas about both femininity and masculinity. Danish bilingual author Karen Blixen (1885-1962) wrote cryptic and convoluted stories under the male pseudonym Isak Dinesen, and while there is an abundance of feminist scholarship on Dinesen, her critique of masculine identity and her relevance to the emergen…
Women and Literacy: Local and Global Inquiries for a New Century
Contents: Preface. P. Mortensen, B. Daniell, Introduction: Researching Women and Literacy: Usable Pasts, Possible Futures. Part I: Literacies Situated Locally: Past, Present, and Future. D. Strickland, Feeling Literate: Gender, Race, and Work in Dorothy West's Typewriter. R.E. Lathan, Crusader: Ethel Azalea Johnson's Use of the Written Word as a Weapon of Liberation. K.M. Powell, Virginia Mountain Women Writing to Government Officials: Letters of…
“A Coffee-Plantation is a Thing that Gets Hold of You and Does Not Let You Go”: Plant-Writing in Karen Blixen’s Out of Africa
One of the powerful but mostly overlooked productive forces in and behind Karen Blixen’s Out of Africa (1937) is Coffea arabica, the coffee bush of Arabia. In this article, I first discuss the dominant anti-pastoral tendency in recent Blixen-criticism, which has classified Out of Africa as a neo-colonial text and reduced Blixen’s interest in more-than-human nature to an expression of conservative ideology. I introduce two alternative concepts – “…
Both men and beasts”: Rereading Karen Blixen's anthropomorphisms
Danish author Karen Blixen's frequent use of human–animal comparisons in Out of Africa (1937) has been critically controversial ever since the early 1980s, when the Kenyan writer and critic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o cited this practice as evidence of Blixen's racist and dehumanizing portrayal of Africans. In this essay, I outline an alternative way of thinking about anthropomorphism and zoomorphism that is inspired by current theoretical developments in …
Framing the Environmental Humanities
The concept of framing has long intrigued and troubled scholars in fields including philosophy, rhetoric, media studies and literary criticism. But framing also has rich implications for environmental debate, urging us to reconsider how we understand the relationship between humans and their ecological environment, culture and nature. The contributors to this wide-ranging volume use the concept of framing to engage with key questions in environme…
“The grass was me … the distant invisible mountains were me, the tired oxen were me”: Greening Karen Blixen
Thorkild Bjørnvig (1918–2004) was a protégé and confidant of Karen Blixen. He was also a Danish environmental activist, ecopoet and ecocritic avant la lettre , and the first to study Karen Blixen’s writing from an environmentalist perspective. In his essay “Karen Blixen og forsøgsdyrene
Tools of Transformation: Appropriate Technology in U.S. Countercultural Literature
This essay takes its cue from second-wave ecocriticism and from recent scholarly interest in the “appropriate technology” movement that evolved during the 1960s and 1970s in California and elsewhere. “Appropriate technology” (or AT) refers to a loosely-knit group of writers, engineers and designers active in the years around 1970, and more generally to the counterculture’s promotion, development and application of technologies that were small-sca…
Recent Changes in Body Size of the Eurasian Otter Lutra lutra in Sweden
Guides Not Gurus
The past quarter century has seen the deployment of ethnographic methods in business grow from a curiosity to a prerequisite for success. But in the process, the outcomes of ethnographic research-customer empathy, strategic directions, lasting market insights that shape design-have not been adopted at the same rate. The hand-off from ethnographers to designers and business decision-makers is the biggest challenge to success.The time has come for …
Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States
Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States. By Janet Carey Eldred and Peter Mortensen. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 279. Appendices. Cloth, $34.95.)Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early Republic examines the various rhetorical and composition practices available educated women in the years between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Co-authors Janet Carey Eldred and Peter Mortens…
David Ingram's Green Screen: Environmentalism and American Cinema
A note on the chipped stone industry of Tamerkhan
Michael West's Transcendental Wordplay: America's Romantic Punsters and the Search for the Language of Nature
Rousseau's English Daughters: Female Desire and Male Guardianship in British Romantic Fiction
The Occupational Enigma of Bahrain between the 13th and the 8th century B.C
With no historical record of Dilmun (Bahrain) between с 1240 and 709 B.C., and until recently no archaeological remains from Bahrain which could safely be dated between the 13th and the 8th century B.C., a brief review is offered of the archaeological and textual evidence of the periods preceding and succeeding this apparent gap (I). An important "intermediate" sequence, discovered at Qal'at al-Bahrain by the French Archaeological Mission between…
From bonus to burden: The cost of ruling from a new(s) perspective
Studies have repeatedly documented the cost of ruling: governing parties generally suffer electoral defeats. We approach this empirical law of political science from the perspective of another empirical law: the incumbency bonus, the fact that incumbents get more media attention than the opposition. Our claim is that the bonus constitutes an electoral liability because it reflects the critical approach of media to government power. News featuring…
Guides Not Gurus
The past quarter century has seen the deployment of ethnographic methods in business grow from a curiosity to a prerequisite for success. But in the process, the outcomes of ethnographic research-customer empathy, strategic directions, lasting market insights that shape design-have not been adopted at the same rate. The hand-off from ethnographers to designers and business decision-makers is the biggest challenge to success.The time has come for …
The Occupational Enigma of Bahrain between the 13th and the 8th century B.C
With no historical record of Dilmun (Bahrain) between с 1240 and 709 B.C., and until recently no archaeological remains from Bahrain which could safely be dated between the 13th and the 8th century B.C., a brief review is offered of the archaeological and textual evidence of the periods preceding and succeeding this apparent gap (I). An important "intermediate" sequence, discovered at Qal'at al-Bahrain by the French Archaeological Mission between…
Framing the Environmental Humanities
The concept of framing has long intrigued and troubled scholars in fields including philosophy, rhetoric, media studies and literary criticism. But framing also has rich implications for environmental debate, urging us to reconsider how we understand the relationship between humans and their ecological environment, culture and nature. The contributors to this wide-ranging volume use the concept of framing to engage with key questions in environme…
Both men and beasts”: Rereading Karen Blixen's anthropomorphisms
Danish author Karen Blixen's frequent use of human–animal comparisons in Out of Africa (1937) has been critically controversial ever since the early 1980s, when the Kenyan writer and critic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o cited this practice as evidence of Blixen's racist and dehumanizing portrayal of Africans. In this essay, I outline an alternative way of thinking about anthropomorphism and zoomorphism that is inspired by current theoretical developments in …
Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States
Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States. By Janet Carey Eldred and Peter Mortensen. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 279. Appendices. Cloth, $34.95.)Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early Republic examines the various rhetorical and composition practices available educated women in the years between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Co-authors Janet Carey Eldred and Peter Mortens…
The Occupational Enigma of Bahrain between the 13th and the 8th century B.C
With no historical record of Dilmun (Bahrain) between с 1240 and 709 B.C., and until recently no archaeological remains from Bahrain which could safely be dated between the 13th and the 8th century B.C., a brief review is offered of the archaeological and textual evidence of the periods preceding and succeeding this apparent gap (I). An important "intermediate" sequence, discovered at Qal'at al-Bahrain by the French Archaeological Mission between…
A note on the chipped stone industry of Tamerkhan
Michael West's Transcendental Wordplay: America's Romantic Punsters and the Search for the Language of Nature
Rousseau's English Daughters: Female Desire and Male Guardianship in British Romantic Fiction
Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States
Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States. By Janet Carey Eldred and Peter Mortensen. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 279. Appendices. Cloth, $34.95.)Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early Republic examines the various rhetorical and composition practices available educated women in the years between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Co-authors Janet Carey Eldred and Peter Mortens…
David Ingram's Green Screen: Environmentalism and American Cinema
Guides Not Gurus
The past quarter century has seen the deployment of ethnographic methods in business grow from a curiosity to a prerequisite for success. But in the process, the outcomes of ethnographic research-customer empathy, strategic directions, lasting market insights that shape design-have not been adopted at the same rate. The hand-off from ethnographers to designers and business decision-makers is the biggest challenge to success.The time has come for …
Recent Changes in Body Size of the Eurasian Otter Lutra lutra in Sweden
Tools of Transformation: Appropriate Technology in U.S. Countercultural Literature
This essay takes its cue from second-wave ecocriticism and from recent scholarly interest in the “appropriate technology” movement that evolved during the 1960s and 1970s in California and elsewhere. “Appropriate technology” (or AT) refers to a loosely-knit group of writers, engineers and designers active in the years around 1970, and more generally to the counterculture’s promotion, development and application of technologies that were small-sca…
“The grass was me … the distant invisible mountains were me, the tired oxen were me”: Greening Karen Blixen
Thorkild Bjørnvig (1918–2004) was a protégé and confidant of Karen Blixen. He was also a Danish environmental activist, ecopoet and ecocritic avant la lettre , and the first to study Karen Blixen’s writing from an environmentalist perspective. In his essay “Karen Blixen og forsøgsdyrene
Both men and beasts”: Rereading Karen Blixen's anthropomorphisms
Danish author Karen Blixen's frequent use of human–animal comparisons in Out of Africa (1937) has been critically controversial ever since the early 1980s, when the Kenyan writer and critic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o cited this practice as evidence of Blixen's racist and dehumanizing portrayal of Africans. In this essay, I outline an alternative way of thinking about anthropomorphism and zoomorphism that is inspired by current theoretical developments in …
Framing the Environmental Humanities
The concept of framing has long intrigued and troubled scholars in fields including philosophy, rhetoric, media studies and literary criticism. But framing also has rich implications for environmental debate, urging us to reconsider how we understand the relationship between humans and their ecological environment, culture and nature. The contributors to this wide-ranging volume use the concept of framing to engage with key questions in environme…
“A Coffee-Plantation is a Thing that Gets Hold of You and Does Not Let You Go”: Plant-Writing in Karen Blixen’s Out of Africa
One of the powerful but mostly overlooked productive forces in and behind Karen Blixen’s Out of Africa (1937) is Coffea arabica, the coffee bush of Arabia. In this article, I first discuss the dominant anti-pastoral tendency in recent Blixen-criticism, which has classified Out of Africa as a neo-colonial text and reduced Blixen’s interest in more-than-human nature to an expression of conservative ideology. I introduce two alternative concepts – “…
Women and Literacy: Local and Global Inquiries for a New Century
Contents: Preface. P. Mortensen, B. Daniell, Introduction: Researching Women and Literacy: Usable Pasts, Possible Futures. Part I: Literacies Situated Locally: Past, Present, and Future. D. Strickland, Feeling Literate: Gender, Race, and Work in Dorothy West's Typewriter. R.E. Lathan, Crusader: Ethel Azalea Johnson's Use of the Written Word as a Weapon of Liberation. K.M. Powell, Virginia Mountain Women Writing to Government Officials: Letters of…
Witches’ Milk: Queer Breastfeeding and Alternative Kin-Making in Isak Dinesen’s “The Caryatids”
In this essay, I use the recent convergence of queer, feminist, and ecocritical perspectives under the heading of “queer ecology” to analyse how Danish bilingual author Isak Dinesen (real name: Karen Blixen) deploys breastfeeding in her Gothic story “The Caryatids: An Unfinished Story.” Queer ecology entails critiquing the assumption (or myth) that heterosexual identities, monogamous relationships, consanguineous kinship networks, and reproductiv…
The Juices of the Body: Ecomasculine Fluidification in Two Stories by Isak Dinesen
Gender is a key factor in shaping perceptions of environmental relationships, and moving toward sustainability requires that we rethink dominant ideas about both femininity and masculinity. Danish bilingual author Karen Blixen (1885-1962) wrote cryptic and convoluted stories under the male pseudonym Isak Dinesen, and while there is an abundance of feminist scholarship on Dinesen, her critique of masculine identity and her relevance to the emergen…
From bonus to burden: The cost of ruling from a new(s) perspective
Studies have repeatedly documented the cost of ruling: governing parties generally suffer electoral defeats. We approach this empirical law of political science from the perspective of another empirical law: the incumbency bonus, the fact that incumbents get more media attention than the opposition. Our claim is that the bonus constitutes an electoral liability because it reflects the critical approach of media to government power. News featuring…
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