Julia Nordblad
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of History of Science and Ideas
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 57 48
- E-mail:
- julia.nordblad@idehist.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3P
- Postal address:
- Box 629
751 26 UPPSALA
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Biography
I work as associate professor (lektor) and specialize in the intellectual and political history of the current ecological crisis, especially its temporal aspects. I currently work on two projects. The first examines the political history of the concept of biodiversity. The second examines the history of ecological economics as political thought, 1980–2000.
I earned my PhD in Intellectual History from the Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion, University of Gothenburg in April 2013 with a thesis entitled The Conditions of Equality: Demos, Empire and Pedagogy in Brittany, Tunisia, Torne Valley and Lapland, 1880–1925
I have been a visiting fellow at Sciences Po, Paris (spring 2018), and at EHESS, Paris (spring 2015). I was a visiting scholar at the Department of French and Romance Philology, Columbia University, NYC in 2009/2010. I will spend the fall semester 2023 as a guest researcher at Center for Applied Ecological Thinking (CApE), University of Copenhagen.
Research interests
I have a broad interest in environmental intellectual history and have worked specifically on environmental themes in the the history of economic thought seen as part of a broader political intellectual history. I often deploy perspectives from conceptual history, a field in which political concepts are seen both as arenas for conflict and conveyors of tradition. I have focused specifically environmental concepts, especially the concepts of 'biodiversity' and 'ecosystem services', and 'future generations'. I also take an interest in political temporalities, long termism in political thought and rhetoric and political conceptions of the future in environmental debates in since the 1970s. I have also worked on the history of political concepts such as 'representation' and 'general interest', especially in French forestry debate in the first half of the 19th century.
Awards
2017 Kurt Aspelin Foundation Grant (Stipendiet ur Kurt Aspelins minnesfond)
2014 Clio Award (Cliopriset)
2013 Övralid Foundation Kate Bang Award (Stiftelsen Övralids pris till Kate Bangs minne)
2013 Per Nyström Award (Per Nyströms vetenskapspris)
Media
Sumpcypressens ögonblick gör människan gåtfull
Radio essay on Swedish national radio.
https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/sumpcypressens-ogonblick-gor-manniskan-gatfull
Om klimatet och ekoideologierna
Panelist in programme on the history of environmental political thought, Swedish national radio.
https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/politiska-rummet-om-miljon-och-klimatet

Publications
Recent publications
Politisk idéhistoria i klimatförändringens tid
Part of Perspektiv på politisk idéhistoria, p. 319-332, Södertörns högskola, 2023
European Histories of the Economic and Environmental: Introduction
Part of Contemporary European History, p. 481-490, 2022
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Forest Time and the Passions of Economic Man
Part of Times of History, Times of Nature, p. 105-127, Berghahn Books, 2022
Praktiska rösträttshinder: Exemplet de svenska samerna
Part of Allmän rösträtt?, p. 219-247, Makadam Förlag, 2021
On the Difference Between Anthropocene and Climate Change Temporalities
Part of Critical Inquiry, p. 328-348, 2021
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All publications
Articles in journal
European Histories of the Economic and Environmental: Introduction
Part of Contemporary European History, p. 481-490, 2022
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On the Difference Between Anthropocene and Climate Change Temporalities
Part of Critical Inquiry, p. 328-348, 2021
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Förtidsröstningen väcker demokratins grundfrågor
Part of Arbetarhistoria, p. 55-59, 2019
Människor är inte bara konsumenter och posörer
Part of Dagens Nyheter, 2018
Part of Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory, p. 44-70, 2018
- DOI for Historicising the Question of Democracy's Presentism: The Concept of Interest and Political Languages of the Future in France, 1830–1850
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Part of Glänta, p. 25-32, 2017
Time for politics: How a conceptual history of forests can help us politicize the long term
Part of European Journal of Social Theory, p. 164-182, 2017
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Så kunde vi ha sluppit klimatkrisen
Part of Svenska Dagbladet, 2014
The Un-European Idea: Vichy and Eurafrica in the Historiography of Europeanism
Part of The European Legacy, p. 711-729, 2014
Part of Forum Interdisziplinäre Begriffsgeschichte, p. 33-42, 2014
Le rôle de l'hygiène dans le discours de la méthode directe: Bretagne et Tornédalie, 1880–1925
Part of Documents pour l’histoire du français langue étrangère et seconde, p. 177-197, 2010
Part of Lychnos, p. 65-90, 2008
Books
Den enspråkiga demokratin: minoriteterna, skolan och imperiet, Sverige och Frankrike, 1880-1925
Symposion Brutus Östlings bokförlag, 2015
Chapters in book
Politisk idéhistoria i klimatförändringens tid
Part of Perspektiv på politisk idéhistoria, p. 319-332, Södertörns högskola, 2023
Forest Time and the Passions of Economic Man
Part of Times of History, Times of Nature, p. 105-127, Berghahn Books, 2022
Praktiska rösträttshinder: Exemplet de svenska samerna
Part of Allmän rösträtt?, p. 219-247, Makadam Förlag, 2021
Concepts of Future Generations: Four Contemporary Examples
Part of Futures, Oxford University Press, 2020
Bortom det kvantitativa?: Historiska perspektiv på värderingen av natur och kultur
Part of Kulturarv i samhällsplaneringen, p. 21-36, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2014
Collections (editor)
Glänta produktion, 2017
Conference papers
Other
Vi bryter vårt kontrakt med kommande generationer
Part of Obs P1, Sveriges radio, 2018
Underground Airlines, Ben Winters
Part of Ord och bild, p. 125-127, 2017
Part of Nordic Journal of Educational History, p. 84-85, 2015