Dr Jan Loovers

Dr Jan Loovers
Dr Jan Loovers
Dr Jan Loovers

Research Fellow

About
School/Department
School of Social Science

Biography

Dr. Peter Loovers is a Dutch anthropologist and IFSNu’s Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen. Peter has worked with and has been taught by Gwich’in since 2005, and is excited to work now in Inuit Nunangat. His interested in Arctic, colonialism and decolonialisation, climate change, documentary making, education, filmmaking, food (in)security and sovereignty, health, imperialism, collaborative research with Indigenous Peoples, museums, philosophy. Amongst other works, he was Project Curator for the Arctic: culture and climate exhibition at The British Museum. His most recent publications include the monograph Reading Life with Gwich’in (Routledge, 2020) and the co-edited books Arctic: culture and climate (Thames&Hudson/The British Museum, 2020), Dogs in the North (Routledge, 2018), and Sentient Entanglements and Ruptures in the Americas (Brill, 2023).

Research

Research Areas

Anthropology

Nutrition and Health

Museum Studies

Research Specialisms

  • Anthropology
  • Climate Change
  • Museum Studies
  • Food Science
  • Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Publications

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  • Sentient Entanglements and Ruptures in the Americas: Human-Animal Relations in the Amazon, Andes and Arctic

    Bolton, M. E. (ed.), Loovers, P. (ed.)
    Brill
    Books and Reports: Books
  • 'They work for me, I work for them': Investigatory attunements and partnerships between dogs and Gwich'in in Northern Canada.

    Wishart, R., Loovers, P.
    Sentient Entanglements and Ruptures in the Americas:: Human-Animal Relations in the Amazon, Andes, and Arctic. Bolton, M., Loovers, P. (eds.). Brill, pp. 118-134, 16 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Introduction: Sentient Entanglements and Ruptures in the Americas: Human-Animal Relations in the Amazon, Andes and Arctic

    Loovers, P., Bolton, M. E.
    Sentient Entanglements and Ruptures in the Americas: Human-Animal Relations in the Amazon, Andes and Arctic. Brill, pp. 1-16, 17 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Provocation: Are Museums Relevant For Social and Environmental Justice?

    Asante, S., Cummins, N., Giblin, J., Loovers, P.
    Journal of Museum Ethnography, vol. 36, pp. 22-32
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Governing the Arctic

    Loovers, P.
    Arctic: Culture and Climate. Lincoln, A., Cooper, J., Loovers, J. P. L. (eds.). Thames & Hudson, in collaboration with The British Museum, pp. 270-279
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Arctic: culture and climate : the Citi exhibition

    Lincoln, A. (ed.), Cooper, J. (ed.), Loovers, P. (ed.)
    Thames & Hudson, in collaboration with The British Museum, London. 320 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Preface to Arctic: Culture and Climate

    Lincoln, A., Cooper, J., Loovers, P.
    Arctic: Culture and Climate. Lincoln, A., Cooper, J., Loovers, J. P. L. (eds.). Thames & Hudson, in collaboration with The British Museum, pp. 9
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Relations with Animals in the Circumpolar North

    Loovers, P., Lincoln, A.
    Arctic: Culture and Climate. Lincoln, A., Cooper, J., Loovers, J. P. L. (eds.). Thames & Hudson, in collaboration with The British Museum, pp. 44-77
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Trade in the Bering Strait

    Loovers, P.
    Arctic: Culture and Climate. Lincoln, A., Cooper, J., Loovers, J. P. L. (eds.). Thames & Hudson, in collaboration with The British Museum, pp. 242-254, 15 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Collecting Histories

    Loovers, P.
    Arctic: Culture and Climate. Lincoln, A., Cooper, J., Loovers, J. P. L. (eds.). Thames & Hudson, in collaboration with The British Museum, pp. 302-303
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
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