A reading group that explores the notion of “environmental archives,” as a conceptual space where social sciences, history, and archival theory meet environmental studies and the history and theory of land, earth, and life in the Anthropocene.
Thin ice across the Barents Sea, March 2026. (Image: NASA Earth Observatory image by Michala Garrison, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview.)
For this session we will read and discuss the following texts:
Joanna Radin and Emma Kowal, “Introduction: The Politics of Low Temperature,” in Radin & Kowal (eds), Cryopolitics: Frozen life in a melting world, 2017: 3-26
Susi Frank and Kjetil Jakobsen, "Introduction: The Arctic as an Archive," in Frank & Jakobsen (eds), Arctic Archives: Ice, memory and entropy, 2019: 9-20
The reading group is a collaboration between OCEH visiting scholar Ricardo Roque and Hugo Reinert, supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).
