V Bateman
@vbateman.bsky.social
Visual Culture & Human-Animal History - SSHRC Postdoc Fellow at Trent U 🇨🇦 Co-editor of GLOBALIZING WILDLIFE https://uncpress.org/9781469694757/globalizing-wildlife/
Previously: https://moving-animals.nl
Previously: https://moving-animals.nl
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Globalizing Wildlife
Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization became t...
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So proud to have co-edited the forthcoming volume, “Globalizing Wildlife,” with @rafdebont.bsky.social and Tom Quick 🌎🌍🌏🐀🦜🦏🐅🦦 from @uncpress.bsky.social in their series Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges
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I've got a chapter in here about otter conservation, juxtaposing the free movement of consumer goods and fossil fuel with otter containment in coastal California, but also--wow what a cover!!
*Globalizing Wildlife*, a book edited by @vbateman.bsky.social, Tom Quick, and myself, is now available for pre-order with @uncpress.bsky.social!
Using code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout, you can save 30%
www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Using code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout, you can save 30%
www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Globalizing Wildlife
Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization became t...
www.uncpress.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I've got a chapter in here about otter conservation, juxtaposing the free movement of consumer goods and fossil fuel with otter containment in coastal California, but also--wow what a cover!!
So proud to have co-edited the forthcoming volume, “Globalizing Wildlife,” with @rafdebont.bsky.social and Tom Quick 🌎🌍🌏🐀🦜🦏🐅🦦 from @uncpress.bsky.social in their series Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges
www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...
www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Globalizing Wildlife
Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization became t...
www.uncpress.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
So proud to have co-edited the forthcoming volume, “Globalizing Wildlife,” with @rafdebont.bsky.social and Tom Quick 🌎🌍🌏🐀🦜🦏🐅🦦 from @uncpress.bsky.social in their series Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges
www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...
www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...
So many amazing humans contributed to this book, writing about all kinds of 🌎🌍🌏 animals: rhinos, chimps, parrots, horses, rats, monkeys, bees, otters, mongoose, tigers, elephants, pigeons, bears and more! #animalhist
*Globalizing Wildlife*, a book edited by @vbateman.bsky.social, Tom Quick, and myself, is now available for pre-order with @uncpress.bsky.social!
Using code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout, you can save 30%
www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Using code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout, you can save 30%
www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Globalizing Wildlife
Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization became t...
www.uncpress.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
So many amazing humans contributed to this book, writing about all kinds of 🌎🌍🌏 animals: rhinos, chimps, parrots, horses, rats, monkeys, bees, otters, mongoose, tigers, elephants, pigeons, bears and more! #animalhist
Thinking about Jane Goodall, and grateful to have spent time at Gombe as a @anthropogeny.org graduate student in 2019.
October 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Thinking about Jane Goodall, and grateful to have spent time at Gombe as a @anthropogeny.org graduate student in 2019.
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"This is an essential text for scholars working on environmental, animal, scientific, and segregation histories in South Africa and beyond". The first review of my book is out on Animal History. A big thank you to Mia Uys for this generous review.
online.ucpress.edu/ah/article-a...
online.ucpress.edu/ah/article-a...
Review: Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948, by Jules Skotnes-Brown
Segregated Species examines the role of pests in early 20th-century South Africa, and traces how conceptions of pestilence changed over time. In this engaging work, Skotnes-Brown links the South Afric...
online.ucpress.edu
May 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
"This is an essential text for scholars working on environmental, animal, scientific, and segregation histories in South Africa and beyond". The first review of my book is out on Animal History. A big thank you to Mia Uys for this generous review.
online.ucpress.edu/ah/article-a...
online.ucpress.edu/ah/article-a...
Excited to talk #animalhist with other art historians today at the “Interspecies Interactions in the Visual Arts”symposium, org by @claralanger.bsky.social and Oriane Poret. I’ll be speaking about seeking a “bird’s eye view” in avian photography, and finding (un)wanted encounters.
May 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Excited to talk #animalhist with other art historians today at the “Interspecies Interactions in the Visual Arts”symposium, org by @claralanger.bsky.social and Oriane Poret. I’ll be speaking about seeking a “bird’s eye view” in avian photography, and finding (un)wanted encounters.
Today’s my first day as a SSHRC Postdoc Fellow at Trent University! I’ll be working on a media history of (bird) conservation in 20th cent N America. 🪿🦆🐦⬛🦅Grateful to have research support, be back in Canada, and look forward to working with @finisdunaway.bsky.social
#envhist #animalhist
#envhist #animalhist
May 1, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Today’s my first day as a SSHRC Postdoc Fellow at Trent University! I’ll be working on a media history of (bird) conservation in 20th cent N America. 🪿🦆🐦⬛🦅Grateful to have research support, be back in Canada, and look forward to working with @finisdunaway.bsky.social
#envhist #animalhist
#envhist #animalhist
Looking forward to next week’s online workshop “Wild or Domestic? Research on Artificial Bird Nesting Sites” organized by @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social & Thomas Reitmaier. I’ll be discussing wood duck conservation via nest boxes and the film Wood Duck Ways (1956) [linked below] #envhist #animalhist
April 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Looking forward to next week’s online workshop “Wild or Domestic? Research on Artificial Bird Nesting Sites” organized by @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social & Thomas Reitmaier. I’ll be discussing wood duck conservation via nest boxes and the film Wood Duck Ways (1956) [linked below] #envhist #animalhist
Are snowy owls attracted to airports?
A lovely short documentary: The Snowy Owls of Logan Airport. “We don’t know why they come down to the Boston area. Logan Airport has the highest concentration of snowy owls in the Northeast.” [kottke.org]
The Snowy Owls of Logan Airport
This is a lovely little short film about the many snowy owls that migrate down from the Arctic and settle at Boston’s Logan airport and the man who safely captures & relocates the owls away from the airport. I love thi
kottke.org
April 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Are snowy owls attracted to airports?
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People purged from the National Park Service & agencies that manage federal lands speak out. “I have dedicated my life to being a public servant, teacher, and advocate for places that we ALL cherish. I have saved lives and put my own life at risk…” [kottke.org]
Fired NPS, USFS, BLM Employees Share Their Stories
The Guardian profiled a number of people fired from the agencies that manage federal lands - the US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, etc. — purged from their jobs by the Trump/Musk administration.
Victoria W
kottke.org
February 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
People purged from the National Park Service & agencies that manage federal lands speak out. “I have dedicated my life to being a public servant, teacher, and advocate for places that we ALL cherish. I have saved lives and put my own life at risk…” [kottke.org]
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Great presentations and discussions yesterday with this wonderful bunch, at the colloquium 'Moving Animals: Wanderings in the Anthropocene', co-organized with @vbateman.bsky.social
February 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Great presentations and discussions yesterday with this wonderful bunch, at the colloquium 'Moving Animals: Wanderings in the Anthropocene', co-organized with @vbateman.bsky.social
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Having a great day at the Moving Animals conference! Papers by Helen Cowie on alpacas, @vbateman.bsky.social on wapiti & Vincent Bijman on mongooses #envhist #animalhist
January 31, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Having a great day at the Moving Animals conference! Papers by Helen Cowie on alpacas, @vbateman.bsky.social on wapiti & Vincent Bijman on mongooses #envhist #animalhist
To celebrate and conclude five years of research by the Moving Animals project, @rafdebont.bsky.social and I have organized the conference “Moving Animals: Wanderings in the Anthropocene” on Jan 31 in Maastricht. #envhist #animalhist Program at: moving-animals.nl/upcoming-mov...
Upcoming Moving Animals Conference | Moving Animals
moving-animals.nl
January 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
To celebrate and conclude five years of research by the Moving Animals project, @rafdebont.bsky.social and I have organized the conference “Moving Animals: Wanderings in the Anthropocene” on Jan 31 in Maastricht. #envhist #animalhist Program at: moving-animals.nl/upcoming-mov...
Sadly, this is my last month as postdoc on @rafdebont.bsky.social Moving Animals project @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social. Too many highlights from the last 2.5 years - but what will remain is finding home among the (friendliest) animal + environmental history community
January 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Sadly, this is my last month as postdoc on @rafdebont.bsky.social Moving Animals project @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social. Too many highlights from the last 2.5 years - but what will remain is finding home among the (friendliest) animal + environmental history community
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Eight Clams Control This Polish City’s Water Supply. “If the waters are clean, these [cyborg] mussels stay open and happy. But when water quality drops too low, they close off and shut the water supply of millions of people with them.” [kottke.org]
Eight Clams Control This Polish City’s Water Supply
In the city of Poznań, Poland, a group of eight clams controls the local water supply through a clever bio-monitoring system:
These biological systems are comprised of eight mussels with sensors hot-glued to their she
kottke.org
December 30, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Eight Clams Control This Polish City’s Water Supply. “If the waters are clean, these [cyborg] mussels stay open and happy. But when water quality drops too low, they close off and shut the water supply of millions of people with them.” [kottke.org]
Always love reading @monicavasile.bsky.social
#NationalDayoftheHorse Reading
"Incest at the Zoo: Saving and (in)Breeding the Przewalski’s Horse" by @monicavasile.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2021/08/16/i...
#envhist #animalhistory #histsci
"Incest at the Zoo: Saving and (in)Breeding the Przewalski’s Horse" by @monicavasile.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2021/08/16/i...
#envhist #animalhistory #histsci
Incest at the Zoo: Saving and (in)Breeding the Przewalski's Horse
Incest is more common than one would expect amongst zoo-bred animals, or at least it was...
niche-canada.org
December 13, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Always love reading @monicavasile.bsky.social
Highly recommend this! Was a very productive experience and nice people too :)
🚨 Call for Applications: Writing Support Programme
Got a work-in-progress and want to workshop it in a constructive peer group? Do apply to join us:
#envhist
#envhum
@eseh.bsky.social @envhistnow.bsky.social @monabie.bsky.social @sebmergence.bsky.social
Got a work-in-progress and want to workshop it in a constructive peer group? Do apply to join us:
#envhist
#envhum
@eseh.bsky.social @envhistnow.bsky.social @monabie.bsky.social @sebmergence.bsky.social
December 12, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Highly recommend this! Was a very productive experience and nice people too :)
Found a sandhill crane feather in the archive last year - taped to a letter from 1930. 🪶
#animalhist #envhist
#animalhist #envhist
December 10, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Found a sandhill crane feather in the archive last year - taped to a letter from 1930. 🪶
#animalhist #envhist
#animalhist #envhist
Recently saw ANOHNI and the Johnsons in concert and want to know of other musicians who address the climate and biodiversity crises as explicitly.
"There are aspects of funeral happening right now — that's not a projection, that's a reality"
exclaim.ca/music/articl...
"There are aspects of funeral happening right now — that's not a projection, that's a reality"
exclaim.ca/music/articl...
ANOHNI Absorbs the Grief of a Planet in Crisis: "We're Porous Creatures" │ Exclaim!
"There are aspects of funeral happening right now — that's not a projection, that's a reality"
exclaim.ca
October 23, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Recently saw ANOHNI and the Johnsons in concert and want to know of other musicians who address the climate and biodiversity crises as explicitly.
"There are aspects of funeral happening right now — that's not a projection, that's a reality"
exclaim.ca/music/articl...
"There are aspects of funeral happening right now — that's not a projection, that's a reality"
exclaim.ca/music/articl...
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A program that pays farmers to flood their fields to create “pop-up wetland habitats” as way-stations for migratory birds is a “rare conservation win”. [hcn.org]
Migrating birds find refuge in pop-up habitats - High Country News
A program that pays rice farmers to create wetland habitats is a rare conservation win.
www.hcn.org
October 21, 2024 at 5:02 PM
A program that pays farmers to flood their fields to create “pop-up wetland habitats” as way-stations for migratory birds is a “rare conservation win”. [hcn.org]
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#WorldMigratoryBirdDay
"Collecting specimens and tracking migratory bird patterns enabled these men to map the British Empire and the world and therefore to exert imagined control over it." - Kirsten Greer
niche-canada.org/2020/03/27/n...
#envhist #histgeog #nathist
"Collecting specimens and tracking migratory bird patterns enabled these men to map the British Empire and the world and therefore to exert imagined control over it." - Kirsten Greer
niche-canada.org/2020/03/27/n...
#envhist #histgeog #nathist
New Book - Red Coats and Wild Birds
Editor’s Note: In light of recent book launch cancellations, we are happy to offer a space for authors to highlight their new books in environmental history, humanities, historical geography, and rela...
niche-canada.org
October 12, 2024 at 4:43 PM
#WorldMigratoryBirdDay
"Collecting specimens and tracking migratory bird patterns enabled these men to map the British Empire and the world and therefore to exert imagined control over it." - Kirsten Greer
niche-canada.org/2020/03/27/n...
#envhist #histgeog #nathist
"Collecting specimens and tracking migratory bird patterns enabled these men to map the British Empire and the world and therefore to exert imagined control over it." - Kirsten Greer
niche-canada.org/2020/03/27/n...
#envhist #histgeog #nathist
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#envhist #envhum #histsci
Exciting opportunity to do a paid PhD in the history of biology:
www.academictransfer.com/nl/345235/ph...
Come work with @rafdebont.bsky.social @blenormand.bsky.social and me ❤️
Exciting opportunity to do a paid PhD in the history of biology:
www.academictransfer.com/nl/345235/ph...
Come work with @rafdebont.bsky.social @blenormand.bsky.social and me ❤️
PhD in the history of biological fieldwork and gender
Are you interested in doing a PhD on the history of biology, the environment, and gender? Are you able to work independently and in a team? Do you want to work at an international and interdisciplinar...
www.academictransfer.com
September 17, 2024 at 10:48 AM
#envhist #envhum #histsci
Exciting opportunity to do a paid PhD in the history of biology:
www.academictransfer.com/nl/345235/ph...
Come work with @rafdebont.bsky.social @blenormand.bsky.social and me ❤️
Exciting opportunity to do a paid PhD in the history of biology:
www.academictransfer.com/nl/345235/ph...
Come work with @rafdebont.bsky.social @blenormand.bsky.social and me ❤️
Thrilled to be one of the recipients of the ESEH-Gale Fellowship in Digital Environmental History! Excited to have support for my project on photography, film, and wildlife conservation in the 20th cent 🪿🐦⬛🎞️
thank you @eseh.bsky.social
thank you @eseh.bsky.social
September 9, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Thrilled to be one of the recipients of the ESEH-Gale Fellowship in Digital Environmental History! Excited to have support for my project on photography, film, and wildlife conservation in the 20th cent 🪿🐦⬛🎞️
thank you @eseh.bsky.social
thank you @eseh.bsky.social
“Tenacious Beasts is an accessible ecological and philosophical text, and in some ways an adventurous tale as the author takes us on a journey with him to sites of wildlife recoveries.”
Check out @vbateman.bsky.social 's review of Christopher J. Preston's "Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals," published in 2023 by @mitpress; review now available on H-Net #envhist #envhum #animalhist #conservation 🐳🦬🐺🦦
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
www.h-net.org
September 6, 2024 at 3:44 PM
“Tenacious Beasts is an accessible ecological and philosophical text, and in some ways an adventurous tale as the author takes us on a journey with him to sites of wildlife recoveries.”
“Bellwether Histories show again and again, human attempts to control and manage animals were rarely without devastating unintended consequences.” While not “a pleasant or easy read” due to its subject matter- I highly recommend this book too! (and not because I have a chapter in it).
check out Joseph Giacomelli's review of "Bellwether Histories: Animals, Humans, and US Environments in Crisis," edited by Susan Nance & Jennifer Marks, published in 2023 by @uwapress; review now available on H-Net #envhum #envhist #animalhist
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
www.h-net.org
September 5, 2024 at 2:54 PM
“Bellwether Histories show again and again, human attempts to control and manage animals were rarely without devastating unintended consequences.” While not “a pleasant or easy read” due to its subject matter- I highly recommend this book too! (and not because I have a chapter in it).