thom van dooren
Thom's
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. He is a lecturer in Interdisciplinary Environmental
Studies at the University of New South Wales. Prior to his current
position he held postdoctoral positions at the University of Technology
Sydney and 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
Extinction Studies
At present my research focuses primarily on species of birds that are sliding towards extinciton.
Recent Selected Publications
Monographs and Edited Collections
Book Reviews
Recent Papers Presented (Selected)
With Deborah Bird Rose he co-edits the Ecological Humanities section of the Australian Humanities Review.
Current Projects
Extinction Studies
At present my research focuses primarily on species of birds that are sliding towards extinciton.
Recent Selected Publications
Monographs and Edited Collections
- van Dooren, T. (2011): Vulture, (Reaktion Books: London)
- Rose, D & T. van Dooren (Eds.) (2011) Unloved Others: Death of the Disregarded in the Time of Extinctions, special issue of the Australian Humanities Review, 50
- van Dooren, T. (2011) ‘Invasive Species in Penguin Worlds: An Ethical Taxonomy of Killing for Conservation’, Conservation and Society, 9.4
- Rose, D., S. Cooke and T. van Dooren (2011) ‘Ravens at Play’, Cultural Studies Review, 17.2
- van Dooren, T. (2011) ‘Vultures and their People in India: Equity and Entanglement in a Time of Extinctions’, in Unloved Others: Death of the Disregarded in the Time of Extinctions, special issue of Australian Humanities Review, 50
- Rose, D & T. van Dooren (2010): 'Extinction' entry in Encyclopaedia of Geography (SAGE press)
- van Dooren, T. (2010): 'Pain of Extinction: The Death of a Vulture', Cultural Studies Review, 16.2
- 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
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. "Urban Penguins and Lost Places", invited seminar to History of Consciousness Program and Science and Justice, University of California at Santa Cruz, October 2010
- 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)
