Two hours of teaching in environmental history course

Today I have taught for 2 hours, and attended another hour of teaching by Siri Kalvig, in a course in water and environmental history at IKS, UIS. My topic was the Anthropocene and related human-animal topics.

PPT of Oslo guest lecture on the human empire

At the end of October last year I guest-lectured in a eco-criminology seminar at University of Oslo. The lecture, Menneskeveldet - menneskets globale økologiske hierarki [The human empire - man's glocal ecological hierarchi] was shortly thereafter made available in form of PPT at the webpage of UiO.

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Guest lecture in University of Oslo criminology seminar

Norwegian HAS anthology: Reference to two book chapters in introduction chapter

The introduction chapter to the recently published Norwegian Human-Animal Studies anthology includes references to my two book chapters in the same book. Reference to the introduction chapter (which I have co-authored):

Sollund, Ragnhild, Morten Tønnessen og Guri Larsen 2013. Introduksjon: Fra bruksdyr til dyreverd [Introduction: From animals of utility to animal dignity] [p. 18, 26 (Tønnessen 2013f) and p. 25 (Tønnessen 2013e)]. In Sollund, Ragnhild, Morten Tønnessen og Guri Larsen (eds) 2013, Hvem er villest i landet her? Råskap mot dyr og natur i antropocen, menneskets tidsalder [Who is wildest in this country here? Brutality towards animals and nature in the Anthropocene, the age of Man], Oslo: Spartacus Forlag/Scandinavian Academic Press, 9-36.

Here "Tønnessen 2013f" refers to "Hvem er villest i landet her? Et ulveliv" [Who is wildest in this country here? A wolf's life] and "Tønnessen 2013e" to "Menneskeveldet" [The human empire]. The references on pp. 25 and 26 envelop half page summaries of the two chapters. Excerpt concerning the reference on p. 18 (my translation):

Both our industrial animal husbandry and our control regimes in wildlife management has the character of being distinctly rampant (see Tønnessen's chapter 4).

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Reference to my contributions to Norwegian HAS anthology

Reference to two of my publications in Larsen's chapter on anthropocentrism in food production

Two of my academic publications are referred to in Guri Larsen's book chapter on anthropocentrism in food production in the recently published Norwegian Human-Animal Studies anthology. Reference to Guri's article:

Larsen, Guri 2013. Matens urettferdighet: Matproduksjonens antroposentriske system [Food’s injustice: The anthropocentric system of food production]. In: Ragnhild Sollund, Morten Tønnessen and Guri Larsen (eds), Hvem er villest i landet her: Råskap mot dyr og natur i antropocen, menneskets tidsalder [Who is wildest in this country here? Brutality towards animals and nature in the Anthropocene, the age of Man]. Oslo: Spartacus Forlag/Scandinavian Academic Press, 185-203.

The reference is on page 186, and is to my chapter in the same book "Menneskeveldet" [The human empire] plus to my 2010 article "The global species" (New formations 69: 98-110). Excerpt (my translation):

Within an interdisciplinary field of research, human ecology, nature and culture is sought synthesised in the study of humans' collective interaction with nature. Here, a humane ecosystem is considered as a demographic answer to the need to restore a functioning relation to nature (Tønnessen 2010, see also Tønnessen's chapter).