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Eva Giraud (Keele University): ‘Matters of (violent-) care in the Manhattan Project Beagle Colony’
This paper critically engages with how feminist theories of care (e.g. Haraway, 2008;…
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Jeremy Kidwell (University of Edinburgh): ‘On Killing the Little Ones: Narratives of Violence and Eradication in Bacterial Perspective’
Thom van Dooren has recently drawn attention to the forms of what he…
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Greg Hollin (University of Leeds): ‘Regimes of violent-care: Democracy, climate change, and rare earth mining in Greenland’
While STS has been slow to problematize care (Martin et al. 2015), such…
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Michelle Keown (University of Edinburgh): ‘The ‘slow violence’ of the nuclearised Pacific’
On 1st March 2014, Marshall Islanders marked 60 years since the devastating US…
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David Higgins (University of Leeds): ‘A flood of ruin’: Romanticism, Deep Time, and Environmental Catastrophe’
The Romantic period saw increasing awareness of the Earth’s changing environment over long…
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Nigel Clark (Lancaster University): ‘Speculative Volcanology, Igneous Becomings’
The Earth, observes geologist Jan Zalasiewicz,is `a gigantic machine for producing strata’. A…
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Sonia Ali (University of Glasgow): ‘Excavated Realities’
Turn the Collid-a-scape -what happens when time, space and materials collide? Turn it once…
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Jacob Barber (University of Edinburgh): ‘The epistemic violence of the Anthropocene’
To consider the epistemic violence of ‘Anthropocene’ I want to explore how the…
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Deep Time & Violence Keynote: Dr Thom van Dooren (University of New South Wales): ‘The Unwelcome Crows: Hospitality in the Anthropocene’
In this lecture, Thom Van Dooren focuses on a small population of roughly…
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