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Professor Nigel Clark

Professor

LEC Building

LA1 4YQ

Lancaster

Tel: +44 1524 510241

ORCID: 0000-0002-6666-1739

Research overview

I look at how social life is shaped and perturbed by physical forces.  The idea of the `Anthropocene’ prompts us to see human beings as geological agents. But I also want to ask how our species acquired its geological agency: what physical forces we’ve tapped into and joined up with. I’m currently looking at how humans have used fire to transform `earthy materials’  - and in the process, how we’ve shaped our social and physical worlds.  This leads on to the question of what kinds of material and social experimentation we should be considering in times of rapid climate change.

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Publications & Outputs

  • Published

    Thermische Planetarität

    Clark, N., 27/09/2024, Critical Temperature Studies: Konturen eines Forschungsprogramms. Beregow, E., Braun, V. & Lemke, T. (eds.). Frankfurt am Main; New York: Campus

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter

  • Forthcoming

    Beautiful Lives, Wayward Planet: Urban Desire and the Earthly City

    Clark, N. & Gunaratnam, Y., 29/05/2024, (Accepted/In press) Theorizing at the End of the World: Claire Colebrook’s Critical Futurities . Weinstein, J., Loewen Walker, R., Elmore, R. & Cisney, V. (eds.). New York: Columbia University Press

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter

  • Published

    Anthropogenic Fire as the Hinge Between Earth System and Strata

    Clark, N., 10/02/2024, Evidence Ensembles. Rosol, C., Rispoli, G., Klingan, K. & Hoffmann-Walbeck, N. (eds.). Leipzig: Spector Books, p. 65-76 12 p. (Das Neue Alphabet (The New Alphabet), ; vol. 24).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter

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