Alexis Rider
Biographic Data
| ID | 925852 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexis Rider |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexis |
| FAMILY NAME | Rider |
| SIGNATURE | RIDER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London , UK |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-1796-5118 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
(Re)Making Svalbard’s Marble Island: Marketing the Sublime and Mythologising the More-Than-Human
In the first decades of the twentieth century, the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard was recast as a site of mineral possibility. This article traces one effort at industrial extraction there: a marble quarry which, according to the British Northern Exploration Company that ran it, would supply the world with marble of unparalleled quality and beauty for generations. In attempting to incorporate Arctic material into global capitalist markets, the NE…
Of Ice and Meteorites: Geologic Glitches and Temporal Viscosity in the Antarctic Ice Sheet
This article engages with the natural phenomena of meteorite concentrations in Antarctica to explore how ice, particularly flowing, viscous ice, can offer alternative conceptions of change over non-human time. Drawing from historical research at the Smithsonian Institute as well as ethnographic experience in the High Arctic, I foreground glaciological understandings of ice as a monomineralic rock, one that indicates geologic time (rather than cli…
Breaking Earth
Breaking Earth Alexis Rider (bio) and Paul A. Harris (bio) “He takes all that, the strata and the magma and the people and the power, in his imaginary hands. Everything. He holds it. He is not alone. The earth is with him. Then he breaks it.” ― N. K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season Breaking Earth, a collection of visual and written essays brought together for this special issue of SubStance, is a disruptive engagement with concepts and terms that have …
Flows of History
What does it mean to write the history of water? In this virtual issue we set out to explore how articles published in Past and Present, a journal of social history, have addressed the topic of water through time, with a caveat that several important conversations on water have also taken place in other scholarly venues. Within the arbitrary constraint of a specific journal’s archives, the articles reviewed date mostly from the year 2000 onwards,…
Flows of History
What does it mean to write the history of water? In this virtual issue we set out to explore how articles published in Past and Present, a journal of social history, have addressed the topic of water through time, with a caveat that several important conversations on water have also taken place in other scholarly venues. Within the arbitrary constraint of a specific journal’s archives, the articles reviewed date mostly from the year 2000 onwards,…
Breaking Earth
Breaking Earth Alexis Rider (bio) and Paul A. Harris (bio) “He takes all that, the strata and the magma and the people and the power, in his imaginary hands. Everything. He holds it. He is not alone. The earth is with him. Then he breaks it.” ― N. K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season Breaking Earth, a collection of visual and written essays brought together for this special issue of SubStance, is a disruptive engagement with concepts and terms that have …
Flows of History
What does it mean to write the history of water? In this virtual issue we set out to explore how articles published in Past and Present, a journal of social history, have addressed the topic of water through time, with a caveat that several important conversations on water have also taken place in other scholarly venues. Within the arbitrary constraint of a specific journal’s archives, the articles reviewed date mostly from the year 2000 onwards,…
Of Ice and Meteorites: Geologic Glitches and Temporal Viscosity in the Antarctic Ice Sheet
This article engages with the natural phenomena of meteorite concentrations in Antarctica to explore how ice, particularly flowing, viscous ice, can offer alternative conceptions of change over non-human time. Drawing from historical research at the Smithsonian Institute as well as ethnographic experience in the High Arctic, I foreground glaciological understandings of ice as a monomineralic rock, one that indicates geologic time (rather than cli…
(Re)Making Svalbard’s Marble Island: Marketing the Sublime and Mythologising the More-Than-Human
In the first decades of the twentieth century, the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard was recast as a site of mineral possibility. This article traces one effort at industrial extraction there: a marble quarry which, according to the British Northern Exploration Company that ran it, would supply the world with marble of unparalleled quality and beauty for generations. In attempting to incorporate Arctic material into global capitalist markets, the NE…
History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropocene (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Astrobiology (1 works) · Australian History and Society (1 works)