Thom van Dooren – Page 3 – Field philosopher and writer

Two exciting French translations

July 2, 2016November 25, 2020

I’m very happy to announce two recent French translations of my writing.

A few photos from a recent research trip to the Mariana Islands

June 10, 2016January 2, 2022

In May and June of 2016 I travelled to Guam and Rota in the Mariana Islands on a research trip. My focus was the critically

Crows in the Innenhof

February 6, 2016January 2, 2022

As my time in Munich is coming to an end I thought I’d share a few photos and an audio clip of the fantastic corvid

On Ferals

December 5, 2015November 25, 2020

This blog post is the text of a discussant paper that I was delighted to deliver at the 2015 meeting of the American Anthropological Association

The Promises of Pests: Wildlife in Agricultural Landscapes

November 7, 2015November 25, 2020

This post was co-authored with Emily O’Gorman. It is the text from a short paper that we delivered at the 2015 Forum of the Royal

The ethics of off-earth mining: expanding the discussion

November 5, 2015November 25, 2020

This post was co-authored with Matthew Kearnes and is part of a collaborative research and writing project. I presented it today at the 2015 Off-Earth

Agricultural Landscapes: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities

October 17, 2015November 25, 2020

Earlier this week I chaired and introduced a panel at the 2015 Forum of the Council of the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) in

Remaking Nature, the MOOC…

September 24, 2015November 25, 2020

Over the past few months my colleagues and I in the Environmental Humanities Program at UNSW have been developing a MOOC. For those of you

Ethics in the Field: How far should we go to bring back lost species?

August 4, 2015November 25, 2020

Translocation, captive breeding, somatic cell nuclear transfer (cloning), back-breeding, gene and seed banking—the list goes on. Today, there are a whole range of different technologies

Some bird photos

June 15, 2015November 25, 2020

Here are some bird photos from the last few weeks. Quite a lot of Torresian Crows… Please get in touch if you’d like a high