I research developments within the history of climate and nature ideas since the 1970s following an increased inclusion of local knowledge forms, particularly Indigenous knowledge(s). I am interested in the conceptual and discursive relationship between biodiversity and climate as two larger idea formations very central to UN institutions like IPCC and IPBES, both of which increasingly utilize precisely Indigenous knowledges in their responses to the ecological crises.
I have given guest lectures on the history of climate ideas - the differences between the local and the global scale, and on the relation between science and Indigenous knowledge; on newer approaches to the history of nature ideas, and on Donna Haraway's scholarship broadly, i.e. bridging recent eco-philosophical excursions and her earlier work within the history of science.
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