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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  • 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
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