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Dr Jan Loovers

Dr Jan Loovers
Dr Jan Loovers
Dr Jan Loovers

Research Fellow

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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

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Nutrition and Health

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Museum Studies

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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

  • Reading Life with Gwich'in: An Educational Approach

    Loovers, P.
    Routledge, London and New York. 286 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • Southern Ambitions

    Loovers, P.
    Arctic: Culture and Climate. Lincoln, A., Cooper, J., Loovers, J. P. L. (eds.). Thames & Hudson, in collaboration with The British Museum, pp. 231-241
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • 'Hard Times are Coming': Architectures of Cultural Revitalization

    Anderson, D. G., Wishart, R. P., Loovers, P.
    Contributions to Conferences: Oral Presentations

  • Sharing a Voice: Early-Career Scholars and the Arctic

    Kyriakou, A., Loovers, P., Moir, A., Peers, E., Ruiter, K. N., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Contributions to Journals: Features

  • Conclusion - Dogs in the North

    Loovers, P., Losey, R., Wishart, R. P.
    Dogs in the North: Stories of Cooperation and Co-Domestication. Losey, R., Wishart, R., Loovers, J. P. L. (eds.). Oxbow Books, 15 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Dogs in the North: Stories of Cooperation and Co-Domestication

    Losey, R. J., Wishart, R. (ed.), Loovers, P. (ed.)
    Routledge. 344 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • Architectures of domestication: on emplacing human-animal relations in the North

    Anderson, D. G., Loovers, P., Schroer, S. A., Wishart, R. P.
    Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 398-416
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Prostranstvennye arkhitektury v otnoshenii͡akh mezhdu li͡ud'mi, zhivotnym mirom i landshaftom na severe

    Anderson, D. G., Loovers, P., Schroer, S. A., Wishart, R. P.
    Arkheologii͡a Arktiki. Tupakhin, D., Fedorova, N. (eds.). ROS-DOAFK, pp. 5-24, 20 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

  • Staking Life and Silencing Life: Mineral Exploration and Land Use Planning in Peel Watershed

    Loovers, P.
    Practical Anthropology, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 53-56
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Making Lobsticks: Travelling Trails with Teetł’it Gwich’in

    Loovers, P.
    Sibirica : Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 41-63
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The Changing Land: Movement, Knowledge, Skills and Climate Change in the Canadian North

    Loovers, P.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers

  • "Walking Threads, Threading Walk": Weaving and Entangling Deleuze and Ingold with Threads

    Loovers, P.
    The Unfamiliar, vol. 5, no. 1&2, pp. 107-117
    Contributions to Journals: Special Issues

  • Introducing the Walking Threads project

    Esposito, P., Loovers, P.
    The Unfamiliar, vol. 5, no. 1&2, pp. 79-83
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Dog-craft: a history of Gwich'in and dogs in the Canadian North

    Loovers, P.
    Hunter-Gatherer Research, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 387-419
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Collaboration and Partnership in Human-Animal Communities: Reconsidering Ways of Learning and Communication

    Loovers, P.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers

  • Making Partners in the Arctic: Dog Entanglements with Fish, Caibou, and People

    Loovers, P.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers

  • 'Hard Times Are Coming': Indeterminacy, Prophecies, Apocalypse, and Dogs

    Loovers, P.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers

  • Making Lobsticks: Marking Histories of Continuing Experiences

    Loovers, P.
    Histories from the North: Environments, Movements, and Narratives. Ziker, J., Stammler, F. (eds.). 2 edition. Kendall Hunt Publishing
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Relating with Dogs, Fish, and Caribou: An alternative exploration of human-animal engagements in the Circumpolar North

    Loovers, P., Wishart, R. P.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers

  • How Did Dogs Come Inside the House: Human-Animal Relations in Circumpolar North

    Loovers, P.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers

  • Building Log Cabins in Teetl’it Gwich’in Country: Vernacular Architecture and Articulations of Presence

    Wishart, R. P., Loovers, P.
    About the Hearth: Perspectives on the Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North. Anderson, D., Wishart, R., Vate, V. (eds.). Berghahn Books, pp. 54-68, 15 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

  • Following the Veins of the Earth: Reading Resource Extraction in Circumpolar North

    Loovers, P.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers

  • Indigenous Peoples and the Collaborative Stewardship of Nature: Knowledge Binds and Institutional Conflicts

    Loovers, P.
    Sibirica : Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies, vol. 12, no. 2
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles

  • Lots of Tea with Biscuits or A Few Biscuits Without Tea: Narratives of doing 'fieldwork' in different places

    Loovers, P.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers

  • Following the Veins of the Earth: Reading Resource Extraction in Circumpolar North

    Loovers, P.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers

  • Diamond Road

    Loovers, P.
    Contributions to Specialist Publications: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles

  • Arctic Domus: human-animal relations in the North

    Loovers, P., Ween, G. B.
    Alaska Journal of Anthropology, vol. 10, no. 1-2, pp. 175-176
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Making Lobsticks: Marking Histories of Continuing Experiences'

    Loovers, P.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • People of the Lakes

    Loovers, P.
    Contributions to Specialist Publications: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles

  • Review of !Kung Short Films

    Loovers, P.
    Contributions to Specialist Publications: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles

  • Nukak: Ethnoarchaeologogy of an Amazonian People

    Loovers, P.
    Contributions to Specialist Publications: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles

  • Dwelling with Power: Co-management, knowledge and power

    Loovers, P.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Movement and Continuation: Understandings of Climate and Weather in the Gwich'in Settlement Area

    Loovers, P.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

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