Description
Book Synopsis As climate change becomes an increasingly important part of public discourse, the relationship between time in nature and history is changing. Nature can no longer be considered a slow and immobile background to human history, and the future can no longer be viewed as open and detached from the past. Times of History, Times of Nature engages with this historical shift in temporal sensibilities through a combination of detailed case studies and synthesizing efforts. Focusing on the history of knowledge, media theory, and environmental humanities, this volume explores the rich and nuanced notions of time and temporality that have emerged in response to climate change.
Trade Review “Climate unsettles our current knowledge system; we must rethink our understanding of time. This collected volume is an ambitious effort, and very forward-looking. The volume editors recognize that we are entering a conceptual realm where we might not recognize the new.” • Stefan Tanaka, University of California San Diego
Table of Contents List of illustrations
Introduction: Dividing Times
Staffan Bergwik and Anders Ekström
PART I: ERAS OF SYNCHRONIZATION
Chapter 1. Stratigraphies of Time and History: Beyond the Outrages upon Humanity's Self-Love
Helge Jordheim
Chapter 2. The Production and Distribution of Synchronized Time in Sweden, 1850-1914
Gustav Holmberg
Chapter 3. Environmental Times: Synchronizing Human-Earth Temporalities from Annales to Anthropocene, 1920s to 2020s
Sverker Sörlin
PART II: BIOCULTURAL TIMES
Chapter 4. Forest Time and the Passions of Economic Man
Julia Nordblad
Chapter 5. Little Red Ring Binders: Early Red List Temporalities
Marit Ruge Bjærke
Chapter 6. Oil and Vikings: Temporal Alignments within Norwegian Petroleum Fields
Lise Camilla Ruud
PART III: TIME-BINDING KNOWLEDGES AND VISUAL GENRES
Chapter 7. Temporal Poetics of Planetary Transformations: Alexander von Humboldt and the Geo-Anthropological History of the Americas
Adam Wickberg Månsson
Chapter 8. Discovering Moravian History: The Many Times and Sources of an Unknown Land, c. 1830-1860
Emma Hagström Molin
Chapter 9. Synchronising Nature and Culture: Mediating Time in Geochronology and Dendrochronology 1900-1945
Staffan Bergwik
PART IV: RECORDING AND ENVISIONING CLIMATE TIMES
Chapter 10. On Record: Political Temperature and the Temporalities of Climate Change
Eric Paglia and Erik Isberg
Chapter 11. Model Time and Target Years: On the End of Time in IPCC Futures
Nina Wormbs
Chapter 12. Encountering the Geological Live: Temporalization in the Age of Natural Media
Anders Ekström
Conclusion
Staffan Bergwik and Anders Ekström
