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Thom van Dooren

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Mourning in a time of planetary crisis: Making room for grief

  • August 19, 2026September 10, 2026
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New article on the ethics of modifying animal behaviours for conservation
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Environmental Humanities Recently Published

New article on the ethics of modifying animal behaviours for conservation

This post was coauthored with Catherine Price and Daniel Blumstein in the lead up to the publication of our article in Trends in Ecology and Evolution. The post was originally published on the website of the Sydney Environment Institute.

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New Book Out Now
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Recently Published

New Book Out Now

“A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions” will be published by MIT Press in October 2022.

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New Book Out Now
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Recently Published

New Book Out Now

Tune in to the richness and diversity in your local environment with this playful, quirky guide that’s packed with interactive projects, nature writing and sketching

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French translation of The Wake of Crows
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Environmental Humanities Extinction

French translation of The Wake of Crows

The French translation of my book The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds is due to be published in February this year: Dans le

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French translation of Flight Ways
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Extinction

French translation of Flight Ways

The French translation of Flight Ways is due to be published in October this year: En plein vol: Vivre et mourir au seuil de l’extinction. The book is coming out with Éditions Wildproject, Marseille.

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2021 Ludwik Fleck Prize
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2021 Ludwik Fleck Prize

I’m delighted to announce that my book, The Wake of Crows, has been awarded the 2021 Ludwik Fleck Prize by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).

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An Endangered Menagerie
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Extinction

An Endangered Menagerie

We recently published a series of short essays on bushfire and extinction, titled “An Endangered Menagerie” in the journal Plumwood Mountain.

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Audio Documentary on Hawaiian Snails
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Environmental Humanities

Audio Documentary on Hawaiian Snails

This week we published a new audio documentary that tells the story of the ongoing decline and extinction of Hawai’i’s incredible land snails. The piece

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About me

I am Professor of Environmental Humanities in the School of Humanities and the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney, Australia.

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Multispecies Care in the Sixth Extinction
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Environmental Humanities Extinction

Multispecies Care in the Sixth Extinction

A new collection of short essays in “Theorizing the Contemporary” on the Cultural Anthropology website, edited by Ursula Münster, Thom van Dooren, Sara Asu Schroer, and Hugo Reinert.

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