Publications

My current research focuses primarily on the philosophical, ethical, cultural and political dimensions of species extinctions, and is rooted in an approach that draws the humanities into conversation with ecology, biology, ethology and ethnographic work with communities whose lives are entangled with disappearing species in a range of different ways.

Forthcoming papers, accepted for publication but not yet available, are listed here. Please get in touch if you’re unable to locate copies of any of the below publications (some of which are also available at academia.edu).

A list of my popular essays published in magazines is available here.

Books

  1. van Dooren, T. (2022), A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions, MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.
  2. van Dooren, T. (2019) The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds, Columbia University Press: New York.
  3. van Dooren, T. (2014), Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction, Columbia University Press: New York.
  4. van Dooren, T. (2011), Vulture, Reaktion Books: London.

Co-authored Books

  1. The Urban Field Naturalist Project (Sadokierski, Z., T. van Dooren, D. Hochuli, J. Martin, and A. Burrell) (2022), A Guide to the Creatures in Your Neighbourhood, Murdoch Books: Sydney.

Edited Collections

  1. van Dooren, T. and M. Chrulew (2022), Kin: Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose, Duke University Press: Durham and London.
  2. Rose, D.B., T. van Dooren and M. Chrulew (2017), Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death and Generations, Columbia University Press: New York.

Special Journal Issues

  1. Pooley, Simon, John D. C. Linnell, Ursula Münster, Thom van Dooren, Alexandra Zimmermann (2021) “Understanding Coexistence with Wildlife.” Frontiers in Conservation Science.
  2. Münster, Ursula, Thom van Dooren, Sara Asu Schroer, and Hugo Reinert. (2021). “Multispecies Care in the Sixth Extinction.” Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, Society for Cultural Anthropology, January 26.
  3. Bastian, M. and T. van Dooren (2017), “Immortality and Infinitude in the Anthropocene,” Environmental Philosophy, 14.1.
  4. Lunney, D., M. Predavec and T. van Dooren (2017) “Zoology on the Table: The Science, Sustainability and Politics of Eating Animals,” Australian Zoologist, 39.1.
  5. van Dooren, T., U. Münster, E. Kirksey, D.B. Rose, M. Chrulew and A. Tsing (2016), “Multispecies Studies,” Environmental Humanities, 8.1.
  6. Metcalf, J. & T. van Dooren (2012), “Temporal Environments: Rethinking Time and Ecology,” Environmental Philosophy, 9.1.
  7. Rose, D. & T. van Dooren (2011), “Unloved Others: Death of the Disregarded in the Time of Extinctions,” Australian Humanities Review, 50.

More information on edited collections.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

  1. van Dooren,T., Z. Sadokierski, M. Oakey, S. Widin, T. Rissanen, and R. Crates (2024) “A Bird, a Flock, a Song and a Forest” The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 35.1-2, pp. 39-48.
    This essay is in two parts: Multimedia essay / Authors’ commentary
  2. van Dooren, T. (2023) “Worlds of Meaning at the Edge of Extinction: Conservation Behaviour and the Environmental Humanities.” Humanities 12(5): 122. https:// doi.org/10.3390/h12050122
  3. van Dooren, T, C. J. Price, P. B. Banks, O. Berger-Tal, M. Chrulew, J. Johnson, G. Lajeunesse, K. E. Lynch, C. McArthur, F.C.G. Parker, M. Oakey, B. J. Pitcher, C. Cassady St. Clair, G. Ward-Fear, S. Widin, B.B.M. Wong, and D. T. Blumstein. (2023) “The Ethics of Intervening in Animal Behaviour for Conservation.” Trends in Ecology & Evolution: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.04.011
  4. Bastian, M., E. Flatø, L. Baraitser, H. Jordheim, L. Salisbury, T. van Dooren (2023) “Ethical conference economies?: Reimagining the costs of convening academic communities when moving online.” The Geographical Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12557.
  5. van Dooren, T. (2022) “In Search of Lost Snails: Storying Unknown Extinctions,” Environmental Humanities, 14.1, pp. 89–109.
  6. Bastian, M., Flatø, E. H., Baraitser, L., Jordheim, H., Salisbury, L., & van Dooren, T. (2022). “‘What about the coffee break?’ Designing virtual conference spaces for conviviality,” Geo: Geography and Environment, 9(2).
  7. O’Gorman, E., T. van Dooren, U. Münster, J. Adamson, C. Mauch, S. Sörlin, M. Armiero, K. Lindström, D. Houston, J. Augusto Pádua, K. Rigby, O. Jones, J. Motion, S. Muecke, C. Chang, S. Lu, C. Jones, L. Green, F. Matose, H. Twidle, M. Schneider-Mayerson, B. Wiggin, and D. Jørgensen. (2019) “Teaching the Environmental Humanities: International Perspectives and Practices,” Environmental Humanities, 11.2, pp 427-460.
  8. van Dooren, T. (2019) “Moving Birds in Hawai’i: Assisted colonisation in a colonised land,” Cultural Studies Review, 25.1, pp. 41-64. (Matthew Chrulew and Rick De Vos (eds.) “Extinction Studies: Stories of Unravelling and Reworlding” special issue.)
  9. van Dooren, T. (2018) “Thinking with Crows: (Re)doing Philosophy in the Field,” Parallax, 24.4, pp. 439-448. (Brett Buchanan, Matthew Chrulew, and Michelle Bastian (eds.) “Field Philosophy” special issue.)
  10. Kirksey, Eben, Paul Munro, Thom van Dooren, Dan Emery, Anne Maree Kreller, Jeffrey Kwok, Ken Lau, Madeleine Miller, Kaleesha Morris, Stephanie Newson, Erin Olejniczak, Amy Ow, Kate Tuckson, Sarah Sannen, and John Martin (2018) “Feeding the flock: Wild cockatoos and their Facebook friends,” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 1.4, pp. 602-620.
  11. Kearnes, M. and T. van Dooren (2017) “Re-thinking the final frontier: Cosmo-logics and an ethic of interstellar flourishing” GeoHumanities, 3.1, pp. 178-197.
  12. van Dooren, T. (2016) “Authentic Crows: Identity, Captivity and Emergent Forms of Life,” Theory, Culture and Society, 33.2, pp. 29-52.
  13. van Dooren, T. (2016) “The Unwelcome Crows: Hospitality in the Anthropocene,” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, vol. 21.2, pp. 193-212.
  14. van Dooren, T. and D.B. Rose (2016) “Lively Ethography: Storying Animist Worlds,” Environmental Humanities, vol. 8.1, pp. 77-94.
    (Reprinted by invitation in Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene. S. Oppermann and S. Iovino (eds). Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
  15. van Dooren, T., E. Kirksey and U. Münster (2016) “Multispecies Studies: Cultivating Arts of Attentiveness,” Environmental Humanities, vol. 8.1, pp. 1-23.
  16. van Dooren, T. (2015) “A Day With Crows: Rarity, Nativity and the Violent-Care of Conservation,” Animal Studies Journal, 4.2, pp. 1-28.
  17. van Dooren, T. and D. Rose (2012) ‘Storied-places in a Multispecies City’, Humanimalia, 3.2, pp. 1-27
  18. van Dooren, T. (2011) ‘Invasive Species in Penguin Worlds: An Ethical Taxonomy of Killing for Conservation’, Conservation and Society, 9.4, pp. 286-298
  19. Rose, D., S. Cooke and T. van Dooren (2011) ‘Ravens at Play’, Cultural Studies Review, 17.2, pp. 326-343
  20. van Dooren, T. (2011) ‘Vultures and their People in India: Equity and Entanglement in a Time of Extinctions’ Australian Humanities Review, 50, pp. 45-61
    (Reprinted by invitation in Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, Winter 2010; and, Erica Fudge and Clare Palmer (eds.) Veterinary Science: Animals, Humans and Health, Open Humanities Press: Living Books about Life, www.livingbooksaboutlife.org).
  21. van Dooren, T. (2010) ‘Pain of Extinction: The Death of a Vulture’, Cultural Studies Review, 16.2, pp. 271-289
  22. van Dooren, T. (2010) ‘Biopatents and the Problem/Promise of Genetic Leaks: Farming Canola in Canada’, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 21.2, pp. 43-63
  23. van Dooren, T. (2009): ‘Banking Seed: Use and Information in the Conservation of Agricultural Diversity’ Science as Culture, 18.4, pp. 373-395
  24. van Dooren T. (2009): ‘Genetic Conservation in a Climate of Loss’, Ecological Humanities in the Australian Humanities Review, 46, pp. 103-112
  25. van Dooren, T. (2008): ‘Inventing Seed: The Nature/s of Intellectual Property in Plants’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26.4, pp. 676-697
  26. Roa-Rodríguez, C. & T. van Dooren (2008): ‘The Shifting Common Spaces of Plant Genetic Resources in the International Regulation of Property’, The Journal of World Intellectual Property, 11.3, pp. 176-202
  27. van Dooren, T. (2007): ‘Terminated Seed: Death, Proprietary Kinship and the Production of (Bio)wealth’, Science as Culture, 16.1, pp. 71-93
  28. van Dooren, T. (2005): ‘I Would Rather be a God/dess than a Cyborg: A Pagan Encounter with Donna Haraway’, Pomegranate: A Journal of Pagan Studies, 7.1, pp. 42-58

Book Chapters

  1. van Dooren, T. (2023) “Drifting with Snails: Extinction Stories from Hawai‘i” in Kaori Nagai (ed.) Maritime Animals, Penn State University Press: University Park, PA.
  2. van Dooren, T. (2022) “Animal Lessons” in Milinda Banerjee and Jelle J.P. Wouters (eds.), Subaltern Studies 2.0: Being against the Capitalocene, Prickly Paradigm Press, Chicago.
  3. van Dooren, T. (2022) “The disappearing snails of Hawai‘i: Storytelling for a time of extinctions” in Thom van Dooren and Matthew Chrulew (eds.), Kin: Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose. Duke University Press: Durham and London.
  4. van Dooren, T and M. Chrulew (2022) “Worlds of Kin: An Introduction” in Thom van Dooren and Matthew Chrulew (eds.), Kin: Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose. Duke University Press: Durham and London.
  5. van Dooren, T. (2021) “Snail trails: A foray into disappearing worlds, written in slime” in Sarah Bezan and Robert McKay (eds.), Animal Remains. Routledge: London.
  6. Stengers, I. and T. van Dooren (2020) ‘Preface,’ in Deborah Bird Rose, Le Rêve du chien sauvage, Editions La Découverte: Paris (French translation of Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction by Fleur Courtois-L’heureux). English version here.
  7. van Dooren, T. (2018) “Extinction” in Lori Gruen (ed.) Critical Terms for Animal Studies. University of Chicago Press: Chicago. (unformatted PDF)
  8. van Dooren, T. and V. Despret (2018) “Evolution: Lessons from Some Cooperative Ravens” in Lynn Turner, Ron Broglio and Undine Sellbach (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies. University of Edinburgh Press: Edinburgh. (unformatted PDF)
  9. van Dooren, T. (2017) “Banking the Forest: Loss, Hope and Care in Hawaiian Conservation,” in Joanna Radin and Emma Kowal (eds.) Cryopolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting World, MIT Press. (unformatted PDF)
  10. van Dooren, T. (2017) “Spectral Crows in Hawai`i: Conservation and the Work of Inheritance,” in Deborah Rose, Thom van Dooren and Matthew Chrulew (eds.) Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death and Generations. Columbia University Press: New York. (PDF of earlier version, Sir Keith Hancock Lecture)
  11. Rose, D., T. van Dooren and M. Chrulew (2017) “Telling Extinction Stories: An Introduction” in Deborah Rose, Thom van Dooren and Matthew Chrulew (eds.) Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death and Generations. Columbia University Press: New York.
  12. van Dooren, T. (2014) “Mourning Crows: Grief and Extinction in a Shared World”, in Susan McHugh and Garry Marvin (eds.) The Handbook of Human-Animal Studies, Routledge: London and New York.

Short Essays (peer-reviewed)

  1. Pooley, Simon, John D.C. Linnell, Ursula Münster, Thom van Dooren, and Alexandra Zimmermann (2022) “Editorial: Understanding Coexistence With Wildlife,” Frontiers in Conservation Science
  2. Rose, Deborah Bird, and Thom van Dooren (2021) “Animist Lures: Arts of Witness,” in Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene: Archive, Open Humanities Press, pp. 32-37.
  3. Asu Schroer, Sara, Thom van Dooren, Ursula Münster, and Hugo Reinertvan Dooren, T. (2021) “Introduction: Multispecies Care in the Sixth Extinction,” in Münster, Ursula, Thom van Dooren, Sara Asu Schroer, and Hugo Reinert. “Multispecies Care in the Sixth Extinction.” Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, Society for Cultural Anthropology, January 26.
  4. van Dooren, T. (2021) “Mourning as Care in the Snail Ark,” in Münster, Ursula, Thom van Dooren, Sara Asu Schroer, and Hugo Reinert. “Multispecies Care in the Sixth Extinction.” Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, Society for Cultural Anthropology, January 26.
  5. van Dooren, T. (2020) “Story(telling)” Swamphen, vol. 7, pp. 1-2.
  6. van Dooren, T. (2018) “Environmental Humanities” in Noel Castree, Mike Hulme and James Proctor (eds) The Companion to Environmental Studies. Routledge: London and New York. (unformatted PDF)
  7. Rose, D. and T. van Dooren (2017) “Encountering a More-than-human World: Ethos and the Arts of Witness,” in Ursula Heise, Jon Cristensen and Michelle Niemann (eds.) Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities, Routledge: London, pp. 120-128. (unformatted PDF)
  8. van Dooren, T. (2017) “Making Worlds with Crows: Philosophy in the Field,” Rachel Carson Centre Perspectives, 2017/1.
  9. van Dooren, T. and D. Rose (2017) “Keeping Faith with the Dead: Mourning and De-extinction,” Australian Zoologist, 38.3, pp. 375-378.(PDF).
  10. O’Gorman, E. and T. van Dooren (2017) “The Promises of Pests: Wildlife in Agricultural Landscapes,” Australian Zoologist, 39.1, pp. 81-84.(PDF)
  11. van Dooren, T. (2015) “The Last Snail: Loss, Hope and Care for the Future,” in Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin (eds.) Land & Animal & Nonanimal, Haus der Kulturen der Welt: Berlin. (PDF)
    (Also published in Libby Robin, Jenny Newell and Kirsten Wehner (eds.) (2016) Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change, Routledge: London)
  12. van Dooren, T. (2015) “Vulture Stories: Narrative and Conservation,” in Katherine Gibson, Ruth Fincher and Deborah Bird Rose (eds.) A Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene, Punctum Books: New York.
  13. van Dooren, T. (2014) “Care” in the Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities, Environmental Humanities, 5, pp. 291-294.
  14. van Dooren, T. (2012) ‘Wild Seed, Domesticated Seed: Companion species and the emergence of agriculture‘ PAN: Philosophy Activism Nature, 9, pp. 22-28
  15. van Dooren, T. (2012) ‘Nature in the Anthropocene?‘ The Yearbook of Comparative Literature, 58, pp. 228-234
  16. Rose, D. & T. van Dooren (2010): ‘Extinctions’ entry in Encyclopedia of Geography, SAGE Reference (winner of an “Outstanding Reference Source” award at the American Library Association meeting, 2011).

Significant Academic Articles (not peer-reviewed)

  1. van Dooren, T. (2014) ‘Life at the Edge of Extinction: Spectral crows, Haunted Landscapes and the Environmental Humanities,’ Humanities Australia, 5

Significant Introductions (not peer-reviewed)

  1. Bastian, M. and T. van Dooren (2017) ‘The New Immortals: Immortality and Infinitude in the Anthropocene’ Environmental Philosophy, 14.1
  2. Rose, D., T. van Dooren, M. Chrulew, S. Cooke, M. Kearnes and E. O’Gorman (2012) ‘Thinking Through the Environment, Unsettling the Humanities’ Environmental Humanities, 1
  3. Metcalf, J and T. van Dooren (2012) ‘Editorial Preface’ in Temporal Environments: Rethinking Time and Ecology, special issue of Environmental Philosophy (Spring)
  4. Rose, D. and T. van Dooren (2011) “Introduction” Unloved Others: Death of the Disregarded in the Time of Extinctions, special issue of Australian Humanities Review, 50

Translations of essays and articles

This list does not include translations of my books. A list of translated books is available here.

French

  1. van Dooren, T. (2024) “Vivre dans des mondes à la dérive: Histoires d’escargots de Hawaï” Raphael Zagury-Orly and Alain Fleischer, L’Humain qui vient, Hermann, Paris.
  2. van Dooren, T. (2016) “Le blues des grues blanches: Violence du soin dans la préservation des espèces” Judith Chouraqui, Cyril Lecerf Maulpoix, Romain André and Grégoire Chamayou (trans.), Jef Klak, 30.
  3. van Dooren, T. (2016) “La partie des manchots” in Revolutions Animales, Karine Lou Matignon (ed.), Coédition ARTE éditions / Les Liens qui Libérent.
  4. van Dooren, T. (2016) “L’arche des morts-vivants, un espoir ?” in Revolutions Animales, Karine Lou Matignon (ed.), Coédition ARTE éditions / Les Liens qui Libérent.

Portuguese

  1. van Dooren, T., E. Kirksey and U. Münster (2016) “Estudos multiespécies: cultivando artes de atentividade” Susana Dias (trans.), ClimaCom, 3.7.

Russian

  1. Rose, D.B., S. Cooke, T. van Dooren (2019) Вóроны за игрой (“Ravens at Play”), Journal of Frontier Studies, 4.1.

German

  1. van Dooren, T. (2021) “Die letzte Schnecke: Verlust, Hoffnung und Fürsorge für die Zukunft,” Jessica Ullrich (trans.), Tierstudien 21/2022

Review Articles

  1. van Dooren, T. (2017) “Temporal promiscuities in the Chthulucene: A reflection on Donna Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble,” Dialogues in Human Geography (unformatted PDF)
  2. van Dooren T. (2009): “Thinking with Dogs: A Review of Donna Haraway’s When Species Meet” Subjectivity, 28
  3. van Dooren T. (2007): “Sheep Futures: A Review of Sarah Franklin’s Dolly Mixtures,” Australian Humanities Review, 42