thom van dooren
Thom is an
environmental anthropologist/philosopher whose research
interests
lie in human relationships with plants, animals and nature more
broadly. In particular, he is concerned with the entanglement of these
relationships with issues of environmental justice, inside
processess of globalisation, climate change and accelerating rates of
species extinction. Thom is currently a Chancellor's Postdoctoral
Research Fellow in the
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology,
Sydney (UTS). During 2008 he was an RCUK Academic Fellow in the
Department of Geography at the University of Hull, UK. His BA (Honours)
was carried out at the Australian
National University (ANU), majoring in philosophy and religious
studies. His PhD was completed in the Fenner School of Environment and
Society (formerly CRES), also at the ANU, with a dissertation titled
Seeding Property: Nature, Human/Plant Relations and the Production of
Wealth.
With Deborah Bird Rose he co-edits the Ecological Humanities section of the Australian Humanities Review.
Current Projects
Bird stories from a Stuggling Planet
At present my major research project is focused on various species of birds around the world that are sliding towards extinction or in serious decline. My work aims to construct 'biographies' of these creatures, with a particular focus on their relationships with human communities.
Vulture, Reaktion Animal Series
I have recently completed work on a short natural-cultural history of vultures for the exciting Reaktion Animal Series.
Recent Selected Publications
Book Reviews
Recent Papers Presented (Selected)
With Deborah Bird Rose he co-edits the Ecological Humanities section of the Australian Humanities Review.
Current Projects
Bird stories from a Stuggling Planet
At present my major research project is focused on various species of birds around the world that are sliding towards extinction or in serious decline. My work aims to construct 'biographies' of these creatures, with a particular focus on their relationships with human communities.
Vulture, Reaktion Animal Series
I have recently completed work on a short natural-cultural history of vultures for the exciting Reaktion Animal Series.
Recent Selected Publications
- van Dooren, T. (forthcoming): Vulture, (Reaktion Books: London)
- van Dooren, T. (forthcoming): 'Pain of Extinction: The Death of a Vulture', Cultural Studies Review
- Rose, D & T. van Dooren (forthcoming, 2010): 'Extinction' entry in Encyclopaedia of Geography (SAGE press)
- van Dooren, T. (2010): ‘Biopatents and the Problem/Promise of Genetic Leaks: Farming Canola in Canada’, Capitalism Nature Socialism, 21.2
- van Dooren, T. (2009): ‘Banking Seed: Use and Information in the Conservation of Agricultural Diversity’, Science as Culture, 18.4
- van Dooren T. (2009): ‘Genetic Conservation in a Climate of Loss: Thinking with Val Plumwood’, Ecological Humanities in the Australian Humanities Review, 46
- van Dooren, T. (2008): ‘Inventing Seed: The Nature/s of Intellectual Property in Plants’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26.4
- Roa-Rodríguez, C. & T. van Dooren (2008): ‘The Shifting Common Spaces of Plant Genetic Resources in the International Regulation of Property’, The Journal of World Intellectual Property, 11.3
- van Dooren, T. (2007): ‘Terminated Seed: Death, Proprietary Kinship and the Production of (Bio)wealth’, Science as Culture, 16.1
- van Dooren, T. (2005): ‘I Would Rather be a God/dess than a Cyborg: A Pagan Encounter with Donna Haraway’, The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies, 7.1
- Restall Orr, E., L. de Angeles & T. van Dooren (Eds.) (2005): Pagan Visions for a Sustainable Future, Llewellyn Publications, Woodbury Minnesota
Book Reviews
- van Dooren, T. (2009): "Thinking with Dogs: A Review of Donna Haraway's When Species Meet", Subjectivity, 28
- van Dooren, T. (2007): “Sheep Futures: A Review of Sarah Franklin’s Dolly Mixtures”, Ecological Humanities in the Australian Humanities Review, 42
Recent Papers Presented (Selected)
- van Dooren, T. "Invasive Species in Penguin Worlds: An Ethical Taxonomy of Killing for Conservation", invited seminar at the Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER), University of Wollongong (July, 2010)
- Rose, D. & T. van Dooren: "Ethics and Exposure in a Time of Extinctions", presented to Cultural Studies and the History of Consciousness, University of California at Santa Cruz (April, 2009)
- van Dooren, T. "Pain of Extinction: The Death of a Vulture", invited seminar to the Medicine and Society Research Interest Group and the Cardiff Social Theory Forum, Cardiff University (November, 2008)
