Times of History, Times of Nature

Anders Ekström is a Professor at the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University, Sweden. His most recent publications include a co-edited volume on the History of Participatory Media (Routledge, 2011), the article "Remediation, Time and Disaster", in Theory, Culture & Society 33:5 (2016), and a chapter for the Routledge Handbook of Museum Media and Communication (2019).

“Climate unsettles our current knowledge system; we must rethink our understanding of time. This collected volume is an ambitious effort, and very forward-looking. The volume editors recognize that we are entering a conceptual realm where we might not recognize the new.” • Stefan Tanaka, University of California San Diego

• List of illustrationsIntroduction: Dividing TimesStaffan Bergwik and Anders EkströmPART I: ERAS OF SYNCHRONIZATIONChapter 1. Stratigraphies of Time and History: Beyond the Outrages upon Humanity's Self-LoveHelge JordheimChapter 2. The Production and Distribution of Synchronized Time in Sweden, 1850-1914Gustav HolmbergChapter 3. Environmental Times: Synchronizing Human-Earth Temporalities from Annales to Anthropocene, 1920s to 2020sSverker SörlinPART II: BIOCULTURAL TIMESChapter 4. Forest Time and the Passions of Economic ManJulia NordbladChapter 5. Little Red Ring Binders: Early Red List TemporalitiesMarit Ruge BjærkeChapter 6. Oil and Vikings: Temporal Alignments within Norwegian Petroleum FieldsLise Camilla RuudPART III: TIME-BINDING KNOWLEDGES AND VISUAL GENRESChapter 7. Temporal Poetics of Planetary Transformations: Alexander von Humboldt and the Geo-Anthropological History of the AmericasAdam Wickberg MånssonChapter 8. Discovering Moravian History: The Many Times and Sources of an Unknown Land, c. 1830-1860Emma Hagström MolinChapter 9. Synchronising Nature and Culture: Mediating Time in Geochronology and Dendrochronology 1900-1945Staffan BergwikPART IV: RECORDING AND ENVISIONING CLIMATE TIMESChapter 10. On Record: Political Temperature and the Temporalities of Climate ChangeEric Paglia and Erik IsbergChapter 11. Model Time and Target Years: On the End of Time in IPCC FuturesNina WormbsChapter 12. Encountering the Geological Live: Temporalization in the Age of Natural MediaAnders EkströmConclusionStaffan Bergwik and Anders Ekström