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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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Two exciting French translations
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Environmental Humanities Extinction

Two exciting French translations

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

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

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

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

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Crows in the Innenhof
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Photography

Crows in the Innenhof

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

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On Ferals
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Environmental Humanities Pests

On Ferals

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

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The Promises of Pests: Wildlife in Agricultural Landscapes
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Environmental Humanities Pests

The Promises of Pests: Wildlife in Agricultural Landscapes

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

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The ethics of off-earth mining: expanding the discussion
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Space Ethics

The ethics of off-earth mining: expanding the discussion

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

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Agricultural Landscapes: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities
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Environmental Humanities

Agricultural Landscapes: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities

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

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Remaking Nature, the MOOC…
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Environmental Humanities

Remaking Nature, the MOOC…

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

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

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

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

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Photography

Some bird photos

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

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