Postdoctoral researcher at the Greenhouse Centre for Environmental Humanities, University of Stavanger

PhD in human geography

Expertise: arctic humanities, subterranean geographies, multispecies and extinction studies, climate change and adaptation technologies.

My scholarship sits at the intersection of the environmental humanities, human (and inhuman!) geography, Arctic studies, and environmental history. My work has followed a consistently multispecies theme, having conducted research into rewilding landscapes, mammoth de-extinction, wildcat conservation, and currently, an environmental history of the barnacle goose. I maintain in all my work a commitment to understanding the Earth and planetary materiality, demonstrated in my research into permafrost landscapes, as well as subterranean geology through a study into the world’s deepest borehole, both contextualised by fieldwork in Arctic Russia. I consider environmental issues in all my work, particularly focusing on the climate crisis, species extinction and the Anthropocene through a critical analysis of techno-optimism, extractive capitalism and colonialism. By incorporating interdisciplinary perspectives across the arts and sciences, I believe the environmental humanities and the work I do within it can offer a greater understanding of Earthly processes, past, present and future.

Email
charlotte.a.wrigley[at]uis.no