Aurora Fredriksen
Biographic Data
| ID | 392184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aurora Fredriksen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aurora |
| FAMILY NAME | Fredriksen |
| SIGNATURE | FREDRIKSEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4287-3443 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Re-sounding spring: Listening to planetary crisis and survival in recombinant birdsong
This paper extends insights from sonic and animal geographies to the question of how planetary crisis can be heard in a series of sonically resonant narratives of red-billed leiothrixes ( Leiothrix lutea ) singing outside of their original range. First, the paper situates the case study within the broader field of work by cultural and animal geographers on the sonic registers of birdsong, setting out what is added to these fields by attending to …
Anthropocene ordinary: Emergent worlds with/in imaginaries of anthropogenic planetary crisis
This paper proposes the concept of Anthropocene ordinary to direct attention to the ways in which the polysemic idea of the Anthropocene coalesces with/in affective experiences, emergent practices and ways of relating within ordinary life. It reviews research on lived experiences, affective resonances and encounters shaped by the Anthropocene idea as well as arguments that the Anthropocene idea perniciously limits what might emerge from the world…
Creative interdisciplinary geographies in practice: Stitching sphagnum moss
How might we get to know moss on more intimate terms? This paper outlines a creative stitching workshop as a method for facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration and for encouraging slowly paced, tactile ways of noticing and getting to know plants - in this case, sphagnum mosses. We reflect on MossWorlds , a project bringing together artists and academics from a variety of disciplines in the social and physical sciences and humanities. Via a s…
Haunting, ruination and encounter in the ordinary Anthropocene: Storying the return Florida's wild flamingos
In the spring of 2006 wild flamingos returned to Florida, though not to the places their kind had inhabited 100 years and more ago at the southern edge of the Everglades and the Florida Keys. Instead this group of flamingos alighted 80 miles northward in Palm Beach County's Stormwater Treatment Area 2 (STA-2), a human-made facility for filtering anthropogenic pollutants from storm runoff. This paper takes the return of wild flamingos to Florida a…
Encounters in the ebb and flood: Knowing marine ecologies in the intertidal contact zone
Shifting rhythmically between land and sea with the ebb and flood tides, shores are places where humans and nonhumans encounter one another in ambivalent relations of deep familiarity and enduring strangeness. In this article, I use the space of the intertidal contact zone to think through a series of uneven encounters between humans and marine wildlife that populate a dispute over tidal energy testing in the Bay of Fundy's Minas Passage. I trace…
Valuing Species: The Continuities between Non-Market and Market Valuations in Biodiversity Conservation
This article explores how the rise of new markets for biodiversity has been facilitated by existing, non-market-based valuation practices within the field of biodiversity conservation. Where others have considered biodiversity markets in terms of capitalist and/or neoliberal expansion, I argue that the abstraction of the value of living things in markets is made easier by the existing valuation practices of species-based biodiversity conservation…
Of wildcats and wild cats: Troubling species-based conservation in the Anthropocene
This article takes the case of Scottish wildcats, threatened with extinction through hybridisation with feral domestic cats, as a site for exploring what it means to conserve a species as such. To this end, the article looks at the practices associated with conserving Scottish wildcats as defined by a definite phenotypical, morphological and/or genetic type, abstracted from indefinite, fleshy organisms emplaced and entangled within changing ecolo…
Crisis in 'a normal bad year: Spaces of humanitarian emergency, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification scale and the Somali famine of 2011
This article takes the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification scale and its use in the declaration of famine in Somalia in July 2011 as a site for examining how the spatial imaginary and emplaced, affective registers of emergency are implicated in marking situations as spaces of humanitarian emergency, or not. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification scale is described and its role in removing the affective registers of crisis dis…
Emergency Shelter Topologies: Locating Humanitarian Space in Mobile and Material Practice
Focusing on two different devices commonly deployed in emergency shelter responses, the emergency family tent and the shelter kit, this paper traces the topological associations of humanitarian spaces as enacted through humanitarian practice. The emergency family tent is shown to effect humanitarian space within the associations of a network topology by acting as an 'immutable mobile', connecting different places of humanitarian crises with each …
Of wildcats and wild cats: Troubling species-based conservation in the Anthropocene
This article takes the case of Scottish wildcats, threatened with extinction through hybridisation with feral domestic cats, as a site for exploring what it means to conserve a species as such. To this end, the article looks at the practices associated with conserving Scottish wildcats as defined by a definite phenotypical, morphological and/or genetic type, abstracted from indefinite, fleshy organisms emplaced and entangled within changing ecolo…
Emergency Shelter Topologies: Locating Humanitarian Space in Mobile and Material Practice
Focusing on two different devices commonly deployed in emergency shelter responses, the emergency family tent and the shelter kit, this paper traces the topological associations of humanitarian spaces as enacted through humanitarian practice. The emergency family tent is shown to effect humanitarian space within the associations of a network topology by acting as an 'immutable mobile', connecting different places of humanitarian crises with each …
Haunting, ruination and encounter in the ordinary Anthropocene: Storying the return Florida's wild flamingos
In the spring of 2006 wild flamingos returned to Florida, though not to the places their kind had inhabited 100 years and more ago at the southern edge of the Everglades and the Florida Keys. Instead this group of flamingos alighted 80 miles northward in Palm Beach County's Stormwater Treatment Area 2 (STA-2), a human-made facility for filtering anthropogenic pollutants from storm runoff. This paper takes the return of wild flamingos to Florida a…
Encounters in the ebb and flood: Knowing marine ecologies in the intertidal contact zone
Shifting rhythmically between land and sea with the ebb and flood tides, shores are places where humans and nonhumans encounter one another in ambivalent relations of deep familiarity and enduring strangeness. In this article, I use the space of the intertidal contact zone to think through a series of uneven encounters between humans and marine wildlife that populate a dispute over tidal energy testing in the Bay of Fundy's Minas Passage. I trace…
Anthropocene ordinary: Emergent worlds with/in imaginaries of anthropogenic planetary crisis
This paper proposes the concept of Anthropocene ordinary to direct attention to the ways in which the polysemic idea of the Anthropocene coalesces with/in affective experiences, emergent practices and ways of relating within ordinary life. It reviews research on lived experiences, affective resonances and encounters shaped by the Anthropocene idea as well as arguments that the Anthropocene idea perniciously limits what might emerge from the world…
Emergency Shelter Topologies: Locating Humanitarian Space in Mobile and Material Practice
Focusing on two different devices commonly deployed in emergency shelter responses, the emergency family tent and the shelter kit, this paper traces the topological associations of humanitarian spaces as enacted through humanitarian practice. The emergency family tent is shown to effect humanitarian space within the associations of a network topology by acting as an 'immutable mobile', connecting different places of humanitarian crises with each …
Of wildcats and wild cats: Troubling species-based conservation in the Anthropocene
This article takes the case of Scottish wildcats, threatened with extinction through hybridisation with feral domestic cats, as a site for exploring what it means to conserve a species as such. To this end, the article looks at the practices associated with conserving Scottish wildcats as defined by a definite phenotypical, morphological and/or genetic type, abstracted from indefinite, fleshy organisms emplaced and entangled within changing ecolo…
Crisis in 'a normal bad year: Spaces of humanitarian emergency, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification scale and the Somali famine of 2011
This article takes the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification scale and its use in the declaration of famine in Somalia in July 2011 as a site for examining how the spatial imaginary and emplaced, affective registers of emergency are implicated in marking situations as spaces of humanitarian emergency, or not. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification scale is described and its role in removing the affective registers of crisis dis…
Valuing Species: The Continuities between Non-Market and Market Valuations in Biodiversity Conservation
This article explores how the rise of new markets for biodiversity has been facilitated by existing, non-market-based valuation practices within the field of biodiversity conservation. Where others have considered biodiversity markets in terms of capitalist and/or neoliberal expansion, I argue that the abstraction of the value of living things in markets is made easier by the existing valuation practices of species-based biodiversity conservation…
Encounters in the ebb and flood: Knowing marine ecologies in the intertidal contact zone
Shifting rhythmically between land and sea with the ebb and flood tides, shores are places where humans and nonhumans encounter one another in ambivalent relations of deep familiarity and enduring strangeness. In this article, I use the space of the intertidal contact zone to think through a series of uneven encounters between humans and marine wildlife that populate a dispute over tidal energy testing in the Bay of Fundy's Minas Passage. I trace…
Haunting, ruination and encounter in the ordinary Anthropocene: Storying the return Florida's wild flamingos
In the spring of 2006 wild flamingos returned to Florida, though not to the places their kind had inhabited 100 years and more ago at the southern edge of the Everglades and the Florida Keys. Instead this group of flamingos alighted 80 miles northward in Palm Beach County's Stormwater Treatment Area 2 (STA-2), a human-made facility for filtering anthropogenic pollutants from storm runoff. This paper takes the return of wild flamingos to Florida a…
Re-sounding spring: Listening to planetary crisis and survival in recombinant birdsong
This paper extends insights from sonic and animal geographies to the question of how planetary crisis can be heard in a series of sonically resonant narratives of red-billed leiothrixes ( Leiothrix lutea ) singing outside of their original range. First, the paper situates the case study within the broader field of work by cultural and animal geographers on the sonic registers of birdsong, setting out what is added to these fields by attending to …
Anthropocene ordinary: Emergent worlds with/in imaginaries of anthropogenic planetary crisis
This paper proposes the concept of Anthropocene ordinary to direct attention to the ways in which the polysemic idea of the Anthropocene coalesces with/in affective experiences, emergent practices and ways of relating within ordinary life. It reviews research on lived experiences, affective resonances and encounters shaped by the Anthropocene idea as well as arguments that the Anthropocene idea perniciously limits what might emerge from the world…
Creative interdisciplinary geographies in practice: Stitching sphagnum moss
How might we get to know moss on more intimate terms? This paper outlines a creative stitching workshop as a method for facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration and for encouraging slowly paced, tactile ways of noticing and getting to know plants - in this case, sphagnum mosses. We reflect on MossWorlds , a project bringing together artists and academics from a variety of disciplines in the social and physical sciences and humanities. Via a s…
Geography (8 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (6 works) · Biology (5 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Anthropocene (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Computer security (2 works)