LIST OF PUBLICATIONS   2018 - 2025


(Members of SPHERE in bold)

 

Book length publications: monographs, edited collections, special issues, PhD dissertations

 

Westermann, A. & S. Höhler, eds., Writing History in the Anthropocene. Special issue of: Journal for Historical Social Sciences 46(2020):4.

Sörlin, S. & K. Dodds, eds., Ice Humanities: Living, Thinking and Working in a Melting World (Manchester UP, 2022), 312 pp.

Sörlin, S. & E. Paglia, Stockholm and the Rise of Global Environmental Governance (Cambridge UP, 2025), i-xiv+346 pp.

Sörlin, S., Snow – a history (Stockholm: Volante, 2024), 384 pp. Translations into English (London: Doubleday, 2025), German, Italian, Norwegian, Danish, Hungarian (as of February 2025). 

Warde, P., Libby Robin & S. Sörlin, The Environment: A History of the Idea (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), xi+256 pp.

Paglia, E. & S. Sörlin, eds., Global Environmental Governance in the Twenty-first Century (in progress, planned publication 2025 or 2026), based on papers by c. 15 participants at a workshop at Högberga Gård, Lidingö, June 2022.

Isberg, E. Planetary Timemaking: Paleoclimatology and the Temporalities of Environmental Knowledge, 1945-1990 (PhD dissertation). Division for History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH, October 2023.

Harböll Schröder, T. Where the Wind Blows: Tracing Global Environmental Governance in wind energy development in Denmark and Taiwan, 1970s to the present. (PhD dissertation, planned Fall 2025). Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH, forthcoming  

Höglund Hellgren, J., Making Governable Objects: Emerging practices of Global Environmental Governance through forests, glaciers and wetlands in Argentina (PhD dissertation, planned Spring 2026). Division for History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH, forthcoming.

Samosír, G., Living  Conditions: An Environmental History of the World Bank (PhD dissertation, planned Fall 2025). Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH, forthcoming.

 

 

Other publications: journal articles, book chapters, etc.

 

Harböll Schröder, T. and S. Höhler (in review). "Travelling Tales of Modern Green Nations: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Wind Energy in Denmark and Taiwan." Science, Technology & Human Values.

Höglund Hellgren, J. "Negotiating governable objects: Glaciers in Argentina", in Sverker Sörlin and Klaus Dodds (eds.), Ice Humanities: Living, Thinking and Working in a Melting World (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022).

Höglund Hellgren, J.  (in review, expected 2025)."The environed glacier: Science and politics in Argentina's glacier inventory", submission to: Environmental Science & Policy.

Höglund Hellgren, J. (in progress)."From national economic asset to 'conservation value' to counting CO2: The transformation of forests in Argentinean politics (1973-2019).

Höglund Hellgren, J.  (in progress)."Native Forests as an Object of Global Environmental Governance: A case study of the REDD+ program in Misiones province, Argentina."

Höhler, S. (2020). "The Global Environment: A History of Paradoxes", H-Environment Roundtable Review of P. Selcer, The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment: How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018). H-Environment Roundtable Review 10 (11): 14-20 (2020).

Höhler, S. (2020). "Earth, a Technogarden: Planting for the Planet in Sweden's First Phytotron, 1950-1970", Geschichte und Gesellschaft: Zeitschrift für Historische Sozialwissenschaft/Journal for Historical Social Sciences 46 (4): 706-728, special issue, "Writing History in the Anthropocene".

Westermann, A. & S. Höhler (2020). "Writing History in the Anthropocene: Scaling, Accountability, and Accumulation", introduction to special issue ", Journal for Historical Social Sciences 46 (4): 579-605.

Höhler, S. (2021). "Local Disruption or Global Condition?: El Niño as Weather and as Climate Phenomenon", in: Oceanography: Marine Monitoring, Microbiology, and Materiality, eds. A. Avanessian, W. Boschmann and K. Sarkisov, in dialogue with Stefan Helmreich ("XXI Century Science"), Berlin, Sternberg Press / Moscow, V-A-C Foundation.

Höhler, S. (2021). "Knowledges: Creating the Blue Planet from Modern Oceanography", in: Franziska Torma (ed.), A Cultural History of the Sea in the Global Age ("A Cultural History of the Sea" 6), London, Bloomsbury Press, pp. 21-44.

Höhler, S. (2023). "Spaceship Earth: A Review of a Concept", in: Objective: Earth. Designing Our Planet, Lausanne, MUDAC Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts, pp. 112-125.

Höhler, S. (2022). "Die Umwelt wirkt auf uns zurück", NZZ Geschichte [Neue Zürcher Zeitung], No. 40, pp. 26-41.

Höhler, S. & C. Kehrt, "Sog des Neuen: Narrationen der Technikgeschichte". Introduction theme issue "Sog des Neuen"/"Pull of the New", Technikgeschichte 91 (2024) 1, pp. 3-10

Isberg, E. "Multiple Temporalities in a New Geological Age: Revisiting Reinhart Koselleck's Zeitschichten", Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 46:4, 2020, 729-735.

Isberg, E. "Timing the Ocean Floor: Environing Media and the Swedish Deep-Sea Expedition (1947-1948)", in A. Wickberg and J. Gärdebo (eds.), Environing Media, Abingdon, Oxon & New York, NY: Routledge, 2022.

Isberg, E. "Frozen archives on the go: Ice cores and the temporalization of Earth System Science", in S. Sörlin and K. Dodds (eds.), Ice Humanities: Living, Thinking and Working in a Melting World, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022.

Isberg, E. "Oceanic Pasts, Planetary Futures: Deep-Sea Core Data and Temporal Negotiation in the CLIMAP Project (1971-1982)", Time & Society (2025, in press).

Flatø, E. & E. Isberg. "Temporality and Environmental History in the Anthropocene: Timing Climates, Modeling Futures" in E. O'Gorman, M. Carey, S. Swart and W. San Martín (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Environmental History, Abingdon, Oxon & New York, NY: Routledge, 2023.

Paglia, E. "The Swedish initiative and the 1972 Stockholm Conference: the decisive role of science diplomacy in the emergence of global environmental governance," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, vol. 8, article number: 2 (2021).

Paglia, E.  & C. Parker, "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Guardian of Climate Science Pages" in: Guardians of Public Value How Public Organisations Become and Remain Institutions, Boin, A., Fahy, L., 't Hart, P. eds. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. 295-321.

Paglia, E.  & Isberg, E. "On Record: Political Temperature and the Temporalities of Climate Change" in Ekström, A. & Bergwik, S. (Eds.) Times of History, Times of Nature Temporalization and the Limits of Modern Knowledge (New York: Berghahn 2022).

Paglia, E. & S. Sörlin, "Greening our common fate: Stockholm as a node of global environmental memory", in: G. Sluga et al. (eds.), Sites of International Memory (University of Pennsylvania Press,2023), 237-265.

Samosír, G. & C. Kalenberg, "Environmental Governance. Experience, Knowledge, Expectations since 1945", conference report, in H-Soz-Kult, 13 December 2021, https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-127778.

Sörlin, S., "Antropocen och historiens villkor" [The Anthropocene and the Conditions of History], Annales: Kungl. Vetenskapssamhällets i Uppsala årsbok 42, årg. 2017-2018 (Uppsala, 2019), pp. 99-118.

Sörlin, S. & E. Isberg, "Synchronizing Earthly Timescales: Ice, Pollen, and the Making of Proto-Anthropocene Knowledge in the North Atlantic Region," Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 111(2021):3, pp. 717-728.

Svedäng, H., S. Lidström & S. Sörlin, "Decline and diversity in Swedish seas: Environmental narratives in marine history, science and policy", Ambio: A Journal of the Human Environment 49(2020):5, pp. 1114-1121.​

Sörlin, S. "The environment as seen through the life of a journal: Ambio 1972–2022," Ambio: A Journal of the Human Environment 50(2021):1, 10-30.

Sörlin, S. & N. Wormbs, "Environing Technologies: A Theory of Making Environment," History & Technology 34(2018):2, 101-125.

Sörlin, S. & E. Paglia. "Stockholm and 1972--Capital of Environmental Memory." Kungl. Skogs- och Lantbruksakademiens Tidskrift 161(2022)1: pp. 89-95.

Eichhorn, Astrid, Magnus Breitholtz, Valerie Domcke, Jan Hladky, Debbie Hopkins, Agnes Kreil, S. Sörlin, Diarmuid Torney. Towards Climate Sustainability of the Academic System in Europe and Beyond. DOI 10.26356/climate-sust-acad. ISBN: 978-3-9823967-1-2. (Berlin: ALLEA – All European Academies, 2022), 117 pp.

Sörlin, S. "Environmental Times: Synchronizing Human-Earth Temporalities from Annales to Anthropocene, 1920s–2020s" in Ekström, A. & Bergwik, S. Eds.Times of Culture, Times of Nature (Berghahn 2022), 64-101.

Sörlin, S. & K. Dodds, "Ice Humanities: Living, Thinking and Working in a Melting World", in Ice Humanities (2022), 1-34.

Sörlin, S. & E. Isberg, "Synchronizing Earthly Timescales", in: D.R. Butler, The Anthropocene (Routledge, 2022), ch. 9.

Sörlin, S., "Environing and the Human-Earth Relationship: Synchronizing Geo-Anthropology", in: Environing Media, eds. A. Wickberg & J. Gärdebo (Routledge, 2023), 35-53.

Sörlin, S., "Miljö: En global, globaliserande, globaliserad historia" [Environment: A Global, Globalizing, Globalized History], in: Natur & Kulturs globalhistoria, vol. 1, ed. K. G. Karlsson (Natur & Kultur, 2022), 221-271.

Sörlin, S., "Planetary Environing: The return of boundaries as a category in global environmental governance", The Anthropocene Review 12 (2025, published online, in press).      

Sörlin, S., P. Warde, I. Akerman, T. Harböll Schröder, S. Höhler, E. Isberg, E. Paglia, "The Great Dispersal: The fall and rise of Global Environmental Governance", Ambio: A Journal of the Human Environment 54(2025;  in press).

Warde, P., "'Fallacies of misplaced concreteness'? History in post-war environmental arguments", in: Contradictory Histories of Global Development, eds Iris Borowy & Matthias Heymann (De Gruyter, 2025).