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• Burlingame, Katherine (2026). Bewilderment: A New Romanticism for a Damaged Planet. Environmental Humanities. 18(2), s. 430–450. doi: 10.1215/22011919-12384010. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  During the Romantic period, cathartic expressions of eco-anxiety resulted in a collective effort to evoke change through an influential wave of art, literature, music, science, and philosophy that spread across Europe, North America, and beyond. Due to the similar sense of loss and uncertainty that accompanies today’s rapidly changing climate, Romantic voices and ideals continue to be called upon to highlight the vital connection between humans and nature. A rising generation of writers, poets, artists, researchers, and activists across the globe, however, seeks to inspire affirmative climate action while acknowledging and making space for the hidden places, the excluded voices, and the forgotten stories overshadowed by Western Romanticism. This article therefore suggests there is an emerging movement of Romanticism guided by feelings of bewilderment defined in two ways: as isolation, expressing the uncertainty and unfamiliarity accompanying contemporary eco-anxiety; and as attunement, embracing the uncanniness of the Anthropocene by becoming more attentive to non-Western worldviews, deep time perspectives, multispecies encounters, and nonhuman presences. The featured literary and artistic interventions reveal how Anthropocene bewilderment can be harnessed to accessibly translate the ecological data dump, elevate underrepresented voices, and create new pathways for affirmative climate action and more-than-human planetary care.

• Burlingame, Katherine (2025). Rethinking rewilded futures: Co-wilding as vibrant care and lively collaboration. Geoforum. ISSN 0016-7185. 159. doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104194. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Rewilding efforts have been extensively employed to return nature back to its natural rhythm, increasing biodiversity, allowing ecosystems to restore themselves, and mitigating the effects of climate change as human impact is slowly reversed. Rewilding, however, has also been described as a plastic word loosely applied across ecological science and environmental activism, and has been blamed for further perpetuating dualisms of nature and culture, wild and unwild, and unpeopled and peopled. The designation of an Anthropocene era in which humans have irreversibly transformed landscapes across the globe, however, has consequently challenged traditional conceptions of the wilderness while blurring the boundaries between the human and nonhuman world. Similarly, recent rewilding efforts around the globe reveal a unique story of enduring human care, underscored by the strengthening, rather than severing, of relationships between humans, nonhumans, and their shared landscapes. This paper therefore provides a critical review of recent ‘plastic’ rewilding interpretations and strategies that have led to a disconnection between policy and practice as well as the term’s expansion into popular nature writing and mainstream consumer marketing. Following calls for more inclusive rewilding futures, the concept of co-wilding is suggested as a form of vibrant care and lively collaboration to help mobilize new possibilities for coexistence on a damaged planet.

• Holmgaard, Sanne Bech & Burlingame, Katherine (2024). Monitoring materialities: Anthropocene landscapes of environing technologies in the High North. Landscape Research. ISSN 0142-6397. doi: 10.1080/01426397.2024.2416409. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  An increased interest in Arctic regions as places of data generation to inform climate models, reports, and policies on environmental change has created a distinct kind of landscape, transformed by the material legacy of short and long-term monitoring and other scientific activities. Drawing from fieldwork in four key areas for environmental monitoring in the High North of Norway, Sweden, and Greenland, we investigate the intentional and unintentional materialities of environing technologies and other anthropogenic impacts that form a particular kind of Anthropocene landscape related to knowing global environmental change. We conclude that such distinctive monitoring landscapes contribute to work investigating shifting conceptualisations of heritage and the emergence of unintentional landscapes in the Anthropocene, and suggest that as co-creators of the global environment, they provide an interesting insight into the material legacies of natural scientific knowledge production.

• Burlingame, Katherine (2024). Embracing the unruly landscape: reply to Frederik Aagaard Hagemann. Landscape Research. ISSN 0142-6397. doi: 10.1080/01426397.2024.2396772. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Burlingame, Katherine (2024). Collaborative possibilities for urban landscape futures: Response to Frederik Aagaard Hagemann (2024), ‘“Can we Mec the Municipality?’ Emerging voices of young people in a segregated urban landscape”. Landscape Research. ISSN 0142-6397. doi: 10.1080/01426397.2024.2388717. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Burlingame, Katherine (2024). Landscape geographies: Interdisciplinary landscape research and a new framework to apply landscape as method. Landscape Research. ISSN 0142-6397. doi: 10.1080/01426397.2024.2369682. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The landscape concept’s disciplinary ambiguity and its broad range of definitions have resulted in the term’s unruly reputation. More recent scholarship, however, suggests that the term’s interdisciplinary application challenges its contentious origins, creates new pathways for co-creation, and encourages more direct interventions in informing policy. I therefore suggest there is a growing realm of landscape geographies, exploring alternative ways of knowing and being in landscapes across broader spatial, temporal, and ontological scales. Given that it can be difficult to navigate the complicated matrix of landscape definitions, theories, and methodologies, I position landscape as a method and introduce a new model of landscape analysis that includes three overlapping approaches to investigate a landscape’s material, symbolic, and affective dimensions. I conclude that embracing a wider spectrum of landscape geographies will help to elevate a more diverse range of voices, inspiring interdisciplinary conversations that contend with landscape futures in a rapidly changing world.

• Prince, Soléne & Burlingame, Katherine (2023). At Home in the Ancestral Landscape: Uncovering the Lifeworld of Roots Journeys. Etnofoor. ISSN 0921-5158. 35(2), s. 50–66. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Burlingame, Katherine & Papmehl-Dufay, Ludvig (2022). Excavation to storytelling: Perspectives from archaeological heritagescapes in Sweden. Archaeological Review from Cambridge. ISSN 0261-4332. 37.1, s. 50–70. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Burlingame, Katherine & Burlingame, Philip (2022). A heritagescape in the Appalachians: When a tornado came to Kinzua. I Pettenati, Giacomo (Red.), Landscape as Heritage: International Critical Perspectives. Routledge. ISSN 9781032046235. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Burlingame, Katherine (2022). High tech or high touch? Heritage encounters and the power of presence. International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). ISSN 1352-7258. 28(11-12), s. 1228–1241. doi: 10.1080/13527258.2022.2138504. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In this article, I challenge the increasing emphasis on digital technologies to enhance encounters with the past in heritage landscapes. Beginning with a memory from my childhood, I conceptualise presence as being there and review recent approaches in heritage studies that highlight the wide range of benefits derived from embodied experiences in heritage places including reinforcing feelings of wellbeing and ontological security. Outlining enduring limitations of high-tech digital heritage tools, particularly the lack of critical perspectives assessing the ethical and methodological challenges of employing them in heritage landscapes, I argue there is a recurring theme of grasping for presence. Drawing on fieldwork in four heritage sites associated with the Viking Age in Sweden and Germany, I suggest a renewed focus on ‘high touch’ will encourage more meaningful, multisensory encounters within the fabric of the heritage landscape. As our lives become increasingly high tech, I return to the foundational values and motivations of being there in heritage places, concluding that heritage landscapes serve as important spaces of interaction where past, present, and future imaginaries can be negotiated beyond the reach of the digital world.

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• Burlingame, Katherine (2026). Relics of climate change: Natural heritage futures in a melting world. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  A developing El Niño is projected to make 2027 the hottest year ever recorded, leading to a wide range of catastrophic human and environmental consequences. We have already seen the result of warmer and drier conditions over the last several years through an increase in flash floods, droughts, heatwaves, and wildfires particularly across North America and Europe. Warmer conditions in higher mountain regions have also led to unprecedented ice loss, leading to several awareness-raising initiatives including the UN designation of 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation, the 21st of March as the annual World Day for Glaciers, and 2025–2034 as the Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences. Situated within the Relics of Nature project at the University of Oslo funded by the Research Council of Norway, in this keynote I begin by presenting some of the key fieldwork and findings from the project conducted in the High North across Sweden, Norway, Greenland, and Iceland. While assessments and responses to cryospheric change are predominantly approached through natural scientific metrics, the project contributes to a growing body of research from the ice, or cold, humanities, highlighting the importance of understanding ice as both material and more-than-material, embedded in cultural practices, landscape relations, and multispecies ecologies. While the Arctic is melting four times faster than the rest of the world, I also consider the wider implications of a warming planet on a variety of European landscapes valued for both natural and cultural qualities, focusing on the material traces, affective resonances, emergent ecologies, and changing forms of care and governance that arise as natural environments rapidly transform. As many of us work in areas designated as UNESCO World Heritage, I further discuss the shifting role of natural heritage under transformation as well as threats from green transitions, land-use conflicts, and the paradox of climate monitoring. I conclude that as landscape scholars it is vital that we highlight the invaluable and complex past, present, and future qualities of European landscapes and how we might shape and contribute to contemporary discourses of climate change and future climate imaginaries.

• Burlingame, Katherine & Spiwak, Alexa Deanne (2025). ‘More-than’ approaches to landscapes of heritage in the Anthropocene. Landscape Research. ISSN 0142-6397. doi: 10.1080/01426397.2025.2456626. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Burlingame, Katherine; Petursdottir, Thora & Holmgaard, Sanne Bech (2024). Relics of climate change: Icy futures in a melting world. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Burlingame, Katherine (2023). Who should care for the wilderness?: Co-wilded futures of natural heritagescapes. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Burlingame, Katherine (2023). Who should care for the wilderness?: Co-wilded futures of natural heritagescapes. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Burlingame, Katherine (2023). Relics of Nature: An Archaeology of Natural Heritage in the High North. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Burlingame, Katherine (2023). Language Learning and Internationalizataion. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Burlingame, Katherine (2023). Pathways of a CAMS scholar: My journey to a heritage career. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Burlingame, Katherine (2023). Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered: Co-wilding in natural heritage futures. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Burlingame, Katherine (2022). Bewilderment: A more-than-human environmental ethic in heritage studies. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Burlingame, Katherine (2022). Heritage Ecologies. International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). ISSN 1352-7258. doi: 10.1080/13527258.2022.2068642. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Burlingame, Katherine (2022). The paths we tread: Climate change and shifting landscape encounters in northern Sweden’s natural heritagescapes. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Burlingame, Katherine (2022). Locale, Story, and Presence: Encountering Landscapes of the Past and Present. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Burlingame, Katherine (2022). Relics of Nature Project. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Burlingame, Katherine (2022). The paths we tread -- shifting landscape encounters in Sweden's northern heritagescapes. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Burlingame, Katherine (2022). A heritagescape in the Appalachians: When a tornado came to Kinzua. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Burlingame, Katherine (2022). High Tech or High Touch -- Dead Landscapes and How to Make Them Live. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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