{"id":319,"date":"2021-08-20T15:05:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T15:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingthebeach.unibe.ch\/?page_id=319"},"modified":"2025-03-21T12:22:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T12:22:52","slug":"gudrun-i-jakupsstovu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/readingthebeach.unibe.ch\/?page_id=319","title":{"rendered":"Gu\u00f0run \u00ed J\u00e1kupsstovu"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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MA Gu\u00f0run \u00ed J\u00e1kupsstovu<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Gu\u00f0run \u00ed J\u00e1kupsstovu is a doctoral fellow in the SNSF-funded research project The Beach in the Long Twentieth Century at the University of Bern.<\/p>\n

Originally from the small island country of the Faroe Islands, Gu\u00f0run has, for nearly all her life, lived in immediate proximity to the ocean. This sparked an initial research interest in cultural representations of island subjectivities, and questions within environmental and blue humanities more broadly.<\/p>\n

Her dissertation examines contemporary British and Scandinavian nature writing texts that situate questions and understandings of Anthropocene temporalities in littoral spaces, such as beaches, coasts, and islands.<\/p>\n

Gu\u00f0run \u00ed J\u00e1kupsstovu can be reached at gudrun.jakupsstovu@ens.unibe.ch<\/a> or on her Twitter: gudrunjakups<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Encountering Time: Understanding Deep Time Through Encounters and Interactions on the Beach<\/em><\/strong><\/p>

The ubiquity of the climate crisis has made clear that making sense of its many-formed challenges is not a matter purely reserved for the hard sciences to grapple with. While technical solutions are needed, the crisis also calls for a review of the structural narratives that have shaped our worldview through ages of empire, colonialism, and technological advancements. These are questions fit for the humanities to address. One of the challenges is that of understanding time in relation to climate change. As scholars and thinkers across the sciences and the humanities are adopting the term \u201cthe Anthropocene\u201d, it forces a focus on\u00a0geologic time\u00a0that contextualises human history into a planetary history (Chakrabarty 2019; 2018). This project proposes that literary representations of the area between land and sea \u2013 beaches and coastlines \u2013 work as ideal sites for contextualising geologic time, and thus mobilize more tangible understandings of time and future in relation to climate change. The texts examined all feature engagements or encounters that take place in littoral spaces, that all, in their own way, spur tangible considerations on deep time and future. For example, through actions of beachcombing and engaging with objects found on the beach, such as fossils, flints, and plastic waste, notions of both deep past and unsettling \u201cvisions of eternity\u201d (P\u00e9tursd\u00f3ttir 2019; Boetzkes & Pendakis 2013) are invoked. Furthermore, encounters with the nonhuman in littoral spaces highlight parallel lines of earthly existence, that bring forward a more-than-human history within a planetary scale. Drawing on theories of ecocriticism, postcolonialism, and new materialism, this project seeks to ask whether these engagements and encounters at the beach can mobilize tangible understandings of time in relation to climate change, and highlight questions of how empire, colonialism, and capitalism are continually intertwined and present in the age of the Anthropocene.<\/p>

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Keywords: <\/strong>deep time, Anthropocene, archaeology, plastic ontologies, new materialism, ecocriticism, postcolonialism, capitalism, empire<\/p>

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Publications in the Field of the Environmental and Blue Humanities<\/strong><\/p>\n

Journal Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00ed J\u00e1kupsstovu, Gu\u00f0run. “Allegory of an Anthropocene Epic”.\u00a0Nordeuropaforum,\u00a0<\/i>special issue. Ed. Katie Ritson & Frederike Felcht (2024): 190-206.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18452\/30842<\/a><\/p>\n

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Conference Papers<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00ed J\u00e1kupsstovu, Gu\u00f0run.\u00a0“Complicating and Materialising\u00a0\u2018the Flood Myth\u2019\u00a0in Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen\u2019s The Sea Letters<\/i>“.\u00a0Wet Feet? Flooding, Resilience and the Climate Crisis,\u00a0<\/i>University of Sheffield (online),\u00a0<\/i>19 May 2021.<\/p>\n

\u00ed J\u00e1kupsstovu,\u00a0 Gu\u00f0run. “Encountering Time: Understanding Deep Time Through Encounters\u00a0and Interactions on the Beach”.\u00a0GAPS 2021: Science, Culture and Postcolonial Narratives,<\/i>\u00a0University of Oldenburg (online), 13-15 May 2021.<\/p>\n

\u00ed J\u00e1kupsstovu, Gu\u00f0run. “Blue Extinction: Narrating the Deep Life of the Greenland Shark”. Blue Extinctions Conference<\/em>, University of Sheffield, 7-8 July 2022.<\/p>\n

\u00ed J\u00e1kupsstovu, Gu\u00f0run. “Havet og stranden i skandinavisk litteratur \u2013 Et blik p\u00e5 Havboka.” Arbeitstagung der Skandinavistik, <\/i>Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen, 6-8 September 2022.<\/p>\n

\u00ed J\u00e1kupsstovu, Gu\u00f0run. “Deep Time Mythologised: Reading the Anthropocene in Morten Str\u00f8ksnes’ Havboka.” EcoLit Now! International Symposium on Ecocritical Literary Studies and the Environmental Humanities, <\/i>University of Oslo, 24 May 2023.<\/p>\n

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Invited Lectures<\/b><\/p>\n

“Between Land and Sea: Literature, island imaginaries and the Anthropocene.” Invited Lecture. University of the Faroe Islands, 16 March 2021.<\/p>\n

“Reading the Beach: The Potential of Littoral Space.” Invited Lecture. University of Rostock, 21 December 2022 (Zoom).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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