Arctic Norden: Science, Diplomacy and the Formation of a Post-War European North
This project concerns the formation of “Arctic Norden” as a composite of science, diplomacy, and policy in the Cold War context.
contributors
Professor at the Division of History of Science and Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Leader of the Arctic Norden project.
Sverker Sörlin
Sverker Sörlin is a Professor in the Division of History of Science and Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He was the first director of the Swedish Institute for Studies in Education and Research, SISTER (2000-2003), and he has held visiting positions at the University of California, Berkeley (1993), University of Cambridge (2004-2005), and the University of Oslo (2006). He received in 2004 the August [for Strindberg] Prize for the best non fiction book of the year, a two-volume history of European science and ideas 1492-1918. His most recent book in English is Nature’s End: History and the Environment (with Paul Warde), (London: Palgrave, 2009).
Sörlin’s work on the Arctic is extensive since the early 1990’s.
Main publications
“Narratives and Counter Narratives of Climate Change: North Atlantic Glaciology and Meteorology, ca 1930-1955”, Journal of Historical Geography, 35(2009):2, pp. 237-255.
Polar Shifts: International Polar Year 2007-2008 (transl. of 35), (Stockholm: Swedish Research Council and the Swedish Committee for the International Polar Year 2007-2008, December 2009), 65 pp, URL: http://www.ipy.org/ipy-blogs/item/2311-polar-shifts-sweden-and-the-international-polar-year (only available on line)
”Perspektiv på polaråren”, in Polarår, eds. S. Sörlin & G. Rosqvist, Ymer 2009: Årsbok för Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi (Stockholm, pr. Motala, 2009), pp. 17-56.
”Historicizing Arcticality”, in Bipolar, ed. Kathryn Yusoff (London: The Arts Catalyst & British Library; Exeter: The University of Exeter, 2008), pp. 106-108.
”Isdiplomati: Hans W:son Ahlmann och klimatförändringen – mellan morän och moral”, i Mångsysslare och gränsöverskridare: 13 uppsatser i idéhistoria, red. Bosse Sundin & Maria Göransdotter Historiska studier: Skrifter från Umeå universitet 1 (Umeå, 2008), pp. 120-146.
“Humanities and Social Sciences in the International Polar Year: Issues and Projects from a Swedish Perspective” [with D. Avango], Journal of Northern Studies 2007:1-2, pp. 143-154.
Narrating the Arctic: A Cultural History of Nordic Scientific Practices, eds. Michael T. Bravo & Sverker Sörlin (Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 2002), 373 pp.
”Rituals and Resources of Natural History: The North and the Arctic in Swedish Scientific Nationalism”, in Narrating the Arctic: A Cultural History of Nordic Scientific Practices, eds. Michael T. Bravo & Sverker Sörlin (Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 2002), pp. 73-122.