W2: Earth and Expropriation
Alyssa Battistoni
Alyssa Battistoni is an Environmental Fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment. She works on topics related to political economy, environmental politics, feminism, and the history of political thought, and writes about related issues for various publications including Dissent, n+1, the Nation, and Jacobin, where she is on the editorial board. Her book A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal, co-written with Kate Aronoff, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos, is out this fall with Verso.
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson is Associate Professor of British History at the University of Chicago, His research brings together themes in environmental history, history of science, and political economy. His current project examines how, as the British industrial revolution birthed the world’s first fossil fuel economy, geologists transformed the public understanding of the earth's interior and deep past. He argues that these developments—fossil growth and fossil science—converged to produce a fundamental reorientation of politics and culture towards cheap energy and cornucopian growth. He is the author of Enlightenment's Frontier: the Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism (Yale, 2013) and, with Vicky Albritton, Green Victorians: The Simple Life in John Ruskin's Lake District (Chicago, 2016).
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
Benjamin Lazier
Benjamin Lazier is Professor of History and Humanities at Reed College. He teaches and writes about modern intellectual history, with interests in the history of technology, the environment, globalisms, psychoanalysis, interwar Europe, religious thought, political thought, political economy, animality, the emotions, and movements for social action. He is currently working on a history of the idea of the “whole Earth.” A sample of that project (Earthrise; or, the Globalization of the World Picture), a capsule history of philosophical reactions to the first images of the Earth from space, appeared in the American Historical Review.
Kathryn Yusoff is Professor of Inhuman Geography in the School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London. Her research focuses on earth sciences, black feminist theory, geophilosophy and aesthetics in the Anthropocene. Recent publications include, A Billion Black Anthropocenes (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), a Special Issue on “Geosocial Formations”(2017) for Theory, Culture and Society and “Geologic Realism” (2019) in Social Text. She is currently finishing a book on “Geologic Life” that addresses histories of white geology and their afterlives in the grammars and philosophies of materiality.
