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Eleonor Marcussen
@eleonormarcus.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in History
South Asia, environment, disasters, aid, colonialism, postcolonial studies, #infrastructure
Member #concurrences
Author of Acts of Aid: Politics of Relief and Reconstruction...(CUP, 2023)
Concept, programme and abstracts for a workshop this week, part of my project on the environmental context of #railways and #infrastructure in western and central #India in the late nineteenth century.
#envhist
📷: #coal transport in Jharkhand, 2008 lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Ecologies of Infrastructure
lnu.se
December 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Our new research project, starting next year & funded by the #SwedishResearchCouncil
From Imperial Markets to Postcolonial Networks: The Swedish Match Industry and the Reconfiguration of Global Trade in South Asia, c. 1920–1970. Read more here, for now:
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
@niladri4u.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Concept, programme and abstracts for a workshop next week, part of my #research project on the environmental context of #railways and other #infrastructures in western and central #India in the late nineteenth century.
📷: mine of #coal transporters in Jharkhand, 2008. lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Ecologies of Infrastructure
lnu.se
December 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Very glad to have Mitul Baruah from Ashoka U visiting us for 2 weeks, teaching in our master' programme in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, participating a workshop which I'm organising - Ecologies of Infrastructure - and also giving a talk in the LNUCC seminar series on his book "Slow Disaster."
December 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Happy to have two PhD students from Ashoka University with us this semester! Institutional collaboration at its best.
Welcome to PhD students and Erasmus+ ICM scholarship holders Ajayant Katoch and Khadiza Naufa Fatin from Ashoka University! They are joining us for 3 months this fall at Concurrences and are part of the Global Humanities graduate programme at @linneuni.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The 8th ENIUGH Congress has started, or rather arrived - it's wonderful to have so many colleagues visiting LNU for discussions and sharing new ideas and research!
@lnuccon.bsky.social 🌏
Doors open in #Växjö, Sweden: the ENIUGH Congress kicks off at Linnaeus University. Scholars of world & global history are here to rethink entanglements, methods, and thematic expansions at the Eighth European Congress.
#ENIUGH #GlobalHistory
September 11, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Årets stora evenemang för allmänheten äger rum på Huseby bruk i Småland med Malin Lennartsson (LNU), Gunnel Cederlöf (LNU) och Arun Kumar (Nottingham University) - organiserat av projektet "Vändpunkter" om entreprenörskap sedan 1860-talet. ☀️ 🌿 🌲
August 28, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Critical nature-society relations in Palestine/Israel: A Virtual Special issue
journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
journals.sagepub.com
August 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Congratulations - this looks amazing!!
Very much looking forward to book talks and introducing it to the ma-students in postcolonial studies - and of course and the course Race and racism: a postcolonial perspective.
August 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Had to leave the #ESEH early for a meeting and simultaneously visited Sweden's 3rd oldest oak, the Stufvenäs oak: 800 years! An oak grows for 300 years, lives for 300 years and dies for 300 years according to the sign.
August 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Reposted by Eleonor Marcussen
Very excited to receive the paperback of my book, which was published last year. It is a study of the varying economic practices of the Moravian (Herrnhuter) missionaries in St. Thomas, Bethlehem (PA), and Greenland.
July 15, 2025 at 8:24 AM
August 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"The central working assumption of PEN America and of the State Department—that the liberal American can teach the seriously swarming races what is meant by democracy—has been annihilated."
harpers.org/archive/2025...
Speaking Reassurance to Power, by Pankaj Mishra
harpers.org
July 25, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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🌿 On Friday 30 May 2025, @maguiregeoff.bsky.social and @julesod.bsky.social host 'Sexual ecologies: Space, nature and queer cinema', a workshop focussing on the queer turn in ecocritical media.
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May 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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We are hiring a new PhD student in the history group @unistavanger.bsky.social. There are several possible topics, including «Intersections between history education and education for sustainable development/environmental citizenship», which should be interesting for the #envhist #envhum crowd.
May 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Don't miss tomorrow's seminar by the fabulous @nathanbossoh.bsky.social: Making Colonial Laboratories: Investigating the Role of Suggestions and Instructions in Managing the Aburi Botanic Gardens. 21 May, 15.00-16.00 CET. Please note time dif.To register please email instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se
May 20, 2025 at 5:59 AM
For faculty and staff in Swedish higher education and research to sign:
#uppsaladeclaration
uppsaladeclaration.se
May 19, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Ended the work day with a screening of the documentary No Other Land (2024)on the forceful eviction & violence against Palestinian villagers in the West Bank, followed by panel discussion w Nina Gren (Lund U), Wafa Jamil (film director) and Anders Persson (Linnaeus U). Highly recommend it...
May 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Quote of the day:
What Is AI? Neither Artificial nor Intelligent
(Crawford, The Atlas of AI)
April 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Four-leaf clover anno 1867 pressed in notebook of Joseph Stephens at Huseby Bruk.
April 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Recently we published an illustrated booklet by the collaborative pilot project "Welcome Re-Course":
"Welcoming Refugee, Migrant and International Students"

The training booklet also available for downloading in French, Spanish, Italian and Swedish. 📗 📚 📝
lnu.se/en/research/...
Project: Welcome Re-Course: Co-produced Online Training to Support the Inclusion of Refugee, Migrant and International Students
Welcome Re-Course is a co-produced online training to support the inclusion of refugee, migrant, and international students in order to improve well-being within universities and society.
lnu.se
April 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I'm planning to start a #topothek/#topotek/#topotheque for a #citizenscience project as a part of a larger project - does anyone have experiences to share or other recommendations? Suggestions and input much appreciated.
Olivia's portraits of cats: Tessa with triplets: gotland.topotek.se?doc=1108829
Olivias porträtt av katter - Datering okänd
Tessa, husdjur, katter, kattungar, Olivia Wittberg
gotland.topotek.se
April 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Happy to host PhD student Joseph Manock from Manchester University at LNUC #Concurrences this spring - arrived on campus Växjö with spring and a clear blue sky. ☀️🌻
April 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Reposted by Eleonor Marcussen
Today we have "A Degrowth Theorist in the Nineteenth Century? Eugène Huzar and the Dangers of Scientific and Industrial Growth" by @benst.bsky.social

This is the third post in the Historicizing Adaptation blog series, edited by @stundenbower.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2025/03/20/a...

#envhist
A Degrowth Theorist in the Nineteenth Century? Eugène Huzar and the Dangers of Scientific and Industrial Growth
Eugène Huzar warned that industrial science-driven growth threatened Earth's balance, advocating global oversight but recognizing its limits, foreseeing degrowth's necessity.
niche-canada.org
March 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM