Julia Nordblad
@julianordblad.bsky.social
Historian of environmental thought and politics at the Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University, Sweden. Views my own.
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Julia Nordblad
@julianordblad.bsky.social
· Mar 13
The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services | Environmental History
Abstract This essay traces the conceptual history of biodiversity and ecosystem services from the late 1970s to the early 2000s. In contrast to recent historical studies that have interpreted biodiver...
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My article is out! On how ‘ecosystem services’ went from a word for those aspects of nature that economics cannot express to a word for nature's economic value, and how concerns for planetary habitability disappeared from the environmentalist vocabulary.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Now on FirstView: Governing the Miracle? Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social discusses the consequences of planetary perspective for political thought in her review essay of Blake and Gilman’s Children of a Modest Star and Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
Governing the Miracle | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Governing the Miracle
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October 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Now on FirstView: Governing the Miracle? Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social discusses the consequences of planetary perspective for political thought in her review essay of Blake and Gilman’s Children of a Modest Star and Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
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We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.
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Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar
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October 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.
tinyurl.se/crR
tinyurl.se/crR
Regeringens miljöpolitik är ren identitetspolitik.
Sommaren 2026 avslutar SJ all internationell nattågstrafik efter att regeringen stryper finansieringen. Anslaget på 95 miljoner motsvarar statens årliga förlust för Bromma flygplats.
Bromma flygplats blöder lika mycket som SJ:s nattåg till Tyskland kostar
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October 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Regeringens miljöpolitik är ren identitetspolitik.
I wrote an essay for @mihjournal.bsky.social on two very different books on planetary politics, each enlightening in their own way. Both contribute substantially to the discussion within the planetary turn. The piece can be found here:
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Governing the Miracle | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Governing the Miracle
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October 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I wrote an essay for @mihjournal.bsky.social on two very different books on planetary politics, each enlightening in their own way. Both contribute substantially to the discussion within the planetary turn. The piece can be found here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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I have a new piece on the politics of discounting in the latest @nybooks.com, hopefully of interest to some.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
The Price of Tomorrow | Geoff Mann
The current discount rate means that the government views the long-term future of humanity as not metaphorically but literally worthless.
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October 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I have a new piece on the politics of discounting in the latest @nybooks.com, hopefully of interest to some.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION
Faculty and staff in European higher education and research declare their conscientious objection to collaborating with Israeli institutions complicit in severe violations of international law. To sign, visit uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...
Faculty and staff in European higher education and research declare their conscientious objection to collaborating with Israeli institutions complicit in severe violations of international law. To sign, visit uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...
September 19, 2025 at 7:52 AM
EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION
Faculty and staff in European higher education and research declare their conscientious objection to collaborating with Israeli institutions complicit in severe violations of international law. To sign, visit uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...
Faculty and staff in European higher education and research declare their conscientious objection to collaborating with Israeli institutions complicit in severe violations of international law. To sign, visit uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...
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VENICE: Exciting event happening on Monday and Tuesday 23-24th of June: www.unive.it/data/33113/2...
3rd HEPM workshop with a great line up of speakers including @drewpendergrass.bsky.social @beatricecointe.bsky.social @edouardmorena.bsky.social @geoffmann.bsky.social @julianordblad.bsky.social
3rd HEPM workshop with a great line up of speakers including @drewpendergrass.bsky.social @beatricecointe.bsky.social @edouardmorena.bsky.social @geoffmann.bsky.social @julianordblad.bsky.social
WORKSHOP | Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling III - Unive
seminario/lezione
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June 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
VENICE: Exciting event happening on Monday and Tuesday 23-24th of June: www.unive.it/data/33113/2...
3rd HEPM workshop with a great line up of speakers including @drewpendergrass.bsky.social @beatricecointe.bsky.social @edouardmorena.bsky.social @geoffmann.bsky.social @julianordblad.bsky.social
3rd HEPM workshop with a great line up of speakers including @drewpendergrass.bsky.social @beatricecointe.bsky.social @edouardmorena.bsky.social @geoffmann.bsky.social @julianordblad.bsky.social
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Faculty and staff in Swedish higher education and research declare their conscientious objection to collaborate with Israeli institutions complicit in illegal occupation, apartheid, genocide, and other violations of international law.
#uppsaladeclaration
#uppsaladeclaration
May 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Faculty and staff in Swedish higher education and research declare their conscientious objection to collaborate with Israeli institutions complicit in illegal occupation, apartheid, genocide, and other violations of international law.
#uppsaladeclaration
#uppsaladeclaration
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"Över 700 akademiker, varav hälften från Uppsala universitet, har skrivit på en deklaration som uppmanar till bojkott av samarbeten med israeliska lärosäten."
Sveriges Radio rapporterar om #uppsaladeclaration.
www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/hund...
Sveriges Radio rapporterar om #uppsaladeclaration.
www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/hund...
Hundratals forskare vägrar israeliskt samarbete - P4 Uppland
Över 700 akademiker, varav hälften från Uppsala universitet, har skrivit på en deklaration som uppmanar till bojkott av samarbeten med israeliska lärosäten. ...
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May 16, 2025 at 7:16 AM
"Över 700 akademiker, varav hälften från Uppsala universitet, har skrivit på en deklaration som uppmanar till bojkott av samarbeten med israeliska lärosäten."
Sveriges Radio rapporterar om #uppsaladeclaration.
www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/hund...
Sveriges Radio rapporterar om #uppsaladeclaration.
www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/hund...
New article! On the early biodiversity discussion where scientists warned of genetic erosion in the wake of the green revolution, and presented visions of how the planetary environmental underpinnings of society – including evolution itself – could be governed.
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Saving evolutionary time: Conflicting planetary temporalities in the genetic diversity debate, 1967–1980 - Julia Nordblad, 2025
This paper examines the temporalities at play in the issue of plant genetic resources in the 1960s and through the 1970s. The issue emerged as concerned scienti...
journals.sagepub.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:54 PM
New article! On the early biodiversity discussion where scientists warned of genetic erosion in the wake of the green revolution, and presented visions of how the planetary environmental underpinnings of society – including evolution itself – could be governed.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
How can this be allowed to go on?
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WFP runs out of food stocks in Gaza as border crossings remain closed | World Food Programme
GAZA, Palestine – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has depleted all its food stocks for families in Gaza.
www.wfp.org
April 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
How can this be allowed to go on?
www.wfp.org/news/wfp-run...
www.wfp.org/news/wfp-run...
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Ahead of new print alert! You can now read @julianordblad.bsky.social's "The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services" from the April 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum #biodiversity
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services | Environmental History
Abstract This essay traces the conceptual history of biodiversity and ecosystem services from the late 1970s to the early 2000s. In contrast to recent historical studies that have interpreted biodiver...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
March 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Ahead of new print alert! You can now read @julianordblad.bsky.social's "The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services" from the April 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum #biodiversity
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
My article is out! On how ‘ecosystem services’ went from a word for those aspects of nature that economics cannot express to a word for nature's economic value, and how concerns for planetary habitability disappeared from the environmentalist vocabulary.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services | Environmental History
Abstract This essay traces the conceptual history of biodiversity and ecosystem services from the late 1970s to the early 2000s. In contrast to recent historical studies that have interpreted biodiver...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
March 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
My article is out! On how ‘ecosystem services’ went from a word for those aspects of nature that economics cannot express to a word for nature's economic value, and how concerns for planetary habitability disappeared from the environmentalist vocabulary.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Two salaried 4-year PhD positions open at the Department of History of Science and Ideas in Uppsala, one in idéhistoria (intellectual/cultural history, broadly speaking), the other in history of science:
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PhD student in the history of science - Uppsala University
PhD student in the history of science, Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University
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March 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Two salaried 4-year PhD positions open at the Department of History of Science and Ideas in Uppsala, one in idéhistoria (intellectual/cultural history, broadly speaking), the other in history of science:
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Fellow Blueskyers! My first post is a question for the collective intelligence: are there any (preferably good) histories of the concept of resilience in ecological thought and beyond out there?
December 5, 2024 at 10:04 AM
Fellow Blueskyers! My first post is a question for the collective intelligence: are there any (preferably good) histories of the concept of resilience in ecological thought and beyond out there?