thom van dooren

Thom's research interests lie in human relationships with plants, animals and nature more broadly. In particular, he is concerned with the entanglement of these relationships with issues of environmental justice, inside processess of globalisation, climate change and accelerating rates of species extinction. He is a lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of New South Wales. Prior to his current position he held postdoctoral positions at the University of Technology Sydney and the University of Hull, UK. His BA (Honours) was carried out at the Australian National University (ANU), majoring in philosophy and religious studies. His PhD was completed in the Fenner School of Environment and Society (formerly CRES), also at the ANU, with a dissertation titled Seeding Property: Nature, Human/Plant Relations and the Production of Wealth.

For further information please see UNSW website (including a full list of publications).


Current Projects

Environmental Humanities

An international open-access journal.

Extinction Studies
At present my research focuses primarily on species of birds that are sliding towards extinciton.