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topic: geographical frontiers

Tags: historical geographer, topic: geographical frontiers, topic: nature / culture

A historical geographer interested in the history of modernity and modern spaces, studying modernity in transnational perspective, geographical frontiers and the nature/culture divide.

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How can scholarly work be meaningful in an era of lost causes?
"It's easy to feel overwhelmed and alone facing the questions of the Anthropocene. In fact, there is a deep history of hope-as-work."
Labyrinth
"To make a more beautiful human labyrinth in a larger non-human world we will need to think about re-integration ... of human and natural richness."
When Europeans feared the wind
"As Europeans travelled within and beyond the continent during the early modern period, they found strange and deadly winds."
The world we’ll leave our grandchildren
Using theatre to stimulate public discussion of climate change "allowed me to weave in anecdotes & express emotions."

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