Jesse D. Peterson works as a lecturer with the Radical Humanities Laboratory and School of the Human Environment (Department of Geography) at University College Cork in Ireland. He researches human relations to environmental changes often construed as negative, such as oceanic degradation and biodiversity loss. He approaches these relations across the nexus of science, technology, and culture, drawing on insights and practices from geography, science and technology studies, death and discard studies, cultural studies, creative writing, and related fields. His work aspires to produce knowledge on the purposes, values, and meanings of human-environment relations so that societies can better resolve environmental challenges and achieve more just and mutually beneficial outcomes. 

Selected publications

Peterson, J., Bezan, S., and Falconer, K. (forthcoming). ‘Blue Death Studies: Theorising the Water-Corpse Interface.” Lagoonscapes, 4, 2: Special Issue Ecologies of Life and Death in the Anthropocene. Eds. P. Karpouzou and N. Zampaki.

Peterson, J. (2024). “Ethical Challenges in Mariculture: Adopting a Feminist Blue Humanities Approach.” Journal for Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. 37, 3.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-024-09921-5.

Peterson, J., Olson, P., Dekker, N. L. (2024). Death’s Social and Material Meaning Beyond the Human. Bristol: Bristol University Press.