Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Szerszynski, B. (2022) ‘Infrastructuring as a planetary phenomenon: timescale separation and causal closure in more-than-human systems’, Historical Social Research 47(4): 193–214. http://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.47.2022.44
Clark, N. and Szerszynski, B. (2022) ‘Thinking through the Earth: surviving and thriving at a planetary threshold,’ Dialogues in Human Geography, online first. https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206221129204
Clark, N. and Szerszynski, B. (2022) ‘Rifted subjects, fractured Earth: “progress” as learning to live on a self-transforming planet’, Sociological Review 70(2): 385–401. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261221084783
Markusson, N., McLaren, D., Szerszynski, B., Tyfield, D. and Willis, R. (2022) ‘Life in the hole: practices and emotions in the cultural political economy of mitigation deterrence,’ European Journal of Futures Research, 10(1): 2. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40309-021-00186-z
Szerszynski, B. (2021) ‘Cosmic hail’, Das Questões 13(1): 165-7. https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/dasquestoes/article/view/41335/32003
Szerszynski, B. (2021) ‘Towards a continuous-matter philosophy’, Stasis (11:1): 181-207. http://stasisjournal.net/index.php/journal/article/view/192/275
Clark, N., Engelmann, S., Gruppuso, P., Ingold, T., Krause, F., Lucas, G., Meulemans, G., Simonetti, C., Szerszynski, B. and Watts, L. (2021) ‘A solid fluids lexicon’, Theory, Culture & Society: 02632764211030976.
McLaren, D., Willis, R., Szerszynski, B., Tyfield, D. and Markusson, N. (2021) ‘Attractions of delay: using deliberative engagement to investigate the political and strategic impacts of greenhouse gas removal technologies,’ Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, pp. 25148486211066238. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211066238
Szerszynski, B. (2021) ‘Colloidal social theory: thinking about material animacy and sociality beyond solids and fluids’, Theory, Culture & Society 39(2): 131-51. https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764211030989
Szerszynski, B. (2021) ‘On representation and speculation: a case for the use of representational practices in SciArt’, Global Discourse 11(1–2): 131–135. https://doi.org/10.1332/204378921X16097452422318
Szerszynski, B. (2020) ‘The watchman’s part: Earth time, human time and the “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity”’, Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities 1(1).
McLaren, D., Tyfield, D., Willis, R., Szerszynski, B. and Markusson, N. (2019) ‘Beyond “net-zero”: a case for separate targets for emissions reduction and negative emissions,’ Frontiers in Climate, 1(4). https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2019.00004
Szerszynski, B. (2019) ‘Drift as a planetary phenomenon’, Performance Research 23(7): 136-144. Pre-publication version.
Szerszynski, B. (2018) ‘Monument Antropocenu, czyli o splocie czasu geologicznego z ludzkim’, Prace Kulturoznawcze, 22(1-2): 281-305. Translation into Polish of ‘The Anthropocene monument’.
Yang, C-Y, Szerszynski, B. & Wynne, B. (2018) ‘The making of power shortage: The sociotechnical imaginary of Nationalist High Modernism and its pragmatic rationality in electricity planning in Taiwan’, East Asian Science, Technology and Society, 12(3): 1–32. Pre-publication version.
Szerszynski, B. (2017) ‘Gods of the Anthropocene: geo-spiritual formations in the Earth’s new epoch’,Theory, Culture & Society, 34(2–3): 253–275. Pre-publication version.
Szerszynski, B. (2017) ‘The Anthropocene monument: on relating geological and human time’, European Journal of Social Theory, 20(1): 111–131. Pre-publication version.
Szerszynski, B. (2016) ‘Praise Be to You, Earth-Beings’, Environmental Humanities, 8(2): 291–7.
Szerszynski, B. (2016) ‘Viewing the technosphere in an interplanetary light’, The Anthropocene Review. Pre-publication version.
Szerszynski, B. (2016) ‘Planetary mobilities: movement, memory and emergence in the body of the Earth’, Mobilities, 11(4): 614–628. Pre-publication version.
Szerszynski, B. (2015) ‘Getting hitched and unhitched with the ecomodernists’, Environmental Humanities, 7(1): 239-244.
Oldham, P., Szerszynski, B., Stilgoe, J., Brown, C., Eacott, B. & Yuille, A. (2014) ‘Mapping the landscape of climate engineering’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 372(2031)
Szerszynski, B., Kearnes, M., Macnaghten, P., Owen, R. & Stilgoe, J. (2013) ‘Why Solar Radiation Management geoengineering and democracy won’t mix’, Environment and Planning A, 45(12): 2809-2816. Pre-publication draft.
Szerszynski, B. & Galarraga, M. (2013) ‘Geoengineering knowledge: interdisciplinarity and the shaping of climate engineering research’, Environment and Planning A, 45(12): 2817-2824. Pre-publication draft.
Carr, W.A., Preston, C.J., Yung, L., Szerszynski, B., Keith, D.W. & Mercer, A.M. (2013) ‘Public engagement on solar radiation management and why it needs to happen now’,Climatic Change, 121(3): 567-577
Macnaghten, P. & Szerszynski, B. (2013) ‘Living the global social experiment: an analysis of public discourse on geoengineering and its implications for governance’,Global Environmental Change, 23(2): 465–474
Palsson, G., Szerszynski, B., Sörlin, S, Marks, J., Avril, B., Crumley, C., Hackmann, H., Holm, P., Ingram, J., Kirman, A., Pardo Buendía, M. & Weehuizen, R. (2013) ‘Reconceptualizing the ‘Anthropos’ in the Anthropocene: integrating the social sciences and humanities in global environmental change research’, Environmental Science & Policy, 28: 3-13. Available here.
Szerszynski, B. (2012) ‘The end of the end of nature: The Anthropocene and the fate of the human’,Oxford Literary Review, 34(2): 165-84. Pre-publication draft.
Psarikidou, K. & Szerszynski, B. (2012a) ‘The moral economy of civic food networks in Manchester’,International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 19(3): 309–327
Psarikidou, K. & Szerszynski, B. (2012b) ‘Growing the social: alternative ago-food networks and social sustainability in the urban ethical foodscape’, Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 8(1): 31-39
Szerszynski, B. (2010) ‘Technology and monotheism: a dialogue with neo-Calvinist philosophy’,Philosophia Reformata, 75: 43–59.
Szerszynski, B. (2010) ‘Reading and writing the weather: climate technics and the moment of responsibility’, Theory, Culture and Society, 27(2-3): 9-30. Pre-publication draft.
Szerszynski, B. and John Urry (2010) ‘Changing climates: introduction’, Theory, Culture and Society, 27(2-3): 1-8
Gottweis, H., Braun, K., Haila, Y., Hajer, M., Loeber, A., Metzler, I., Reynolds, L., Schultz, S. & Szerszynski, B. (2008) ‘Participation and the new governance of life’,BioSocieties, 3(3): 265-86
Szerszynski, B. (2007) ‘The post-ecologist condition: irony as symptom and cure’, Environmental Politics 16(2), pp. 337-355. Pre-publication draft.
Szerszynski, B. (2006a) ‘A reply to Anne Kull, Eduardo Cruz, and Michael DeLashmutt’,Zygon 41(4), pp. 811-823.
Szerszynski, B. (2006b) ‘Techno-demonology: Naming, Understanding and Redeeming the A/Human Agencies with which we Share our World’, Ecotheology, 11(1), pp. 57-75.
Szerszynski, B. & Urry, J. (2006) ‘Visuality, Mobility and the Cosmopolitan: Inhabiting the World from Afar’, British Journal of Sociology, 57(1), pp. 113-131
Szerszynski, B. (2005b) ‘Rethinking the Secular: Science, Technology, and Religion Today’,Zygon, 40(4), pp. 813-22.
Szerszynski, B. (2004a) ‘Augustinian ecological democracy: postmodern nature and the City of God’, Ecotheology, 9(3), pp. 338-358.
Szerszynski, B. (2002a) ‘Ecological rites: ritual action in environmental protest events’, Theory, Culture and Society, 19(3), pp. 305–323.
Szerszynski, B. (2002b) ‘Wild times and domesticated times: the temporalities of environmental lifestyles and politics’, Landscape and Urban Planning, 61(2-4), pp. 181-91.
Szerszynski, B. & Urry, J. (2002) ‘Cultures of cosmopolitanism’, Sociological Review, 50(4), pp. 461-81.
Deane-Drummond, C., Grove-White, R. & Szerszynski, B. (2001) ‘Genetically modified theology: the religious dimensions of public concerns about agricultural biotechnology’ Studies in Christian Ethics, 14(2), pp. 23-41.
Szerszynski, B. (1999a) ‘Risk and trust: the performative dimension,’ Environmental Values, 8(2), pp. 239-252.
Szerszynski, B. (1997a) ‘The varieties of ecological piety,’ Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology, 1(1), pp. 37-55.
Szerszynski, B. (1993) ‘The metaphysics of environmental concern: a critique of ecotheological anti-dualism,’ Studies in Christian Ethics, 6(2), pp. 67-78.
Grove-White, R. & Szerszynski, B. (1992) ‘Getting behind environmental ethics,’ Environmental Values, 1(4), pp. 285-96.
Book chapters
Clark, N. and Szerszynski, B. (in press) ‘Knowledge at the threshold: interdisciplinarity, earth sciences and the Anthropocene’, in Handbook of Environmental Political Theory in the Anthropocene, ed. Amanda Machin and Marcel Wissenburg, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Clark, N. and Szerszynski, B. (2024 forthcoming) ‘Planetary thought and the much-more-than-human’, in The More-than-Human Handbook, ed. Adrian Franklin, London: Routledge.
Clark, N. and Szerszynski, B. (2023) ‘Planetary technics, earthly spirits’, in Religion, Materialism and Ecology, ed. Sigurd Bergmann, Kate Rigby and Peter Scott, London: Routledge, London: Routledge, pp. 48-65.
Clark, N. and Szerszynski, B. (2022) ‘Elemental computation: from nonhuman media to more-than-digital information systems’ in Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities, ed. Charles Travis, Deborah P. Dixon, Luke Bergmann, Robert Legg and Arlene Crampsie, London: Routledge, pp. 516-27.
Clark, N. and Szerszynski, B. (2021) ‘Planetary multiplicity, earthly multitudes: interscalar practices for a volatile planet’, in Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene: Imagining Human Responsibility in an Age of Scalar Complexity, ed. Gabriele Dürbeck and Philip Hüpkes, New York: Routledge, pp. 75-93.
Szerszynski, B. (2021) ‘Planetary alterity, solar cosmopolitics and the parliament of planets’, in Environmental Alterities, ed. Cristóbal Bonelli and Antonia Walford, Manchester: Mattering Press, pp. 204-26. http://doi.org/10.28938/9781912729142
Szerszynski, B. (2021) ‘The opening of climate’, in Breathe: Investigations into our Atmospherically Entangled Future, ed. Klaus K. Loenhardt, Basel: Burkhäuser, pp. 155-61.
Szerszynski, B. (2020) ‘The grammar of action in the critical zone’, in Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth, ed. Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 344-9.
Szerszynski, B. (2020) ‘How to dismantle a bus: planetary mobilities as method’, in Handbook of Methods and Applications for Mobilities Research, ed. Monika Büscher, Malene Freudendal-Pedersen and Sven Kesselring, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Szerszynski, B. (2019) ‘Epilogue: indigenous worlds and planetary futures’, in Indigenous Perceptions of the End of the World: Creating a Cosmopolitics of Change, ed. Rosalyn Bold, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 203-209.
Szerszynski, B. (2019) ‘Von den Werkzeugen zur Technosphäre’ [‘From tools to technosphere’], in Technosphäre, ed. Katrin Klingan and Christoph Rosol, Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, pp. 48-63.
Szerszynski, B. (2019) ‘A planetary turn for the social sciences?’, in Mobilities and Complexities, ed. Ole B. Jensen, Sven Kesselring and Mimi Sheller, London: Routledge, pp. 223–7.
Szerszynski, B. (2019), ‘How the Earth remembers and forgets’, in Political Geology: Active Stratigraphies and the Making of Life, ed. Adam Bobbette and Amy Donovan, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 219-36. Pre-publication version.
Szerszynski, B. (2018) ‘Geoengineering and the sacred: a brief history in four characters’, in Geoengineering our Climate? Ethics, Politics, and Governance, ed. Jason J. Blackstock and Sean Low, London: Earthscan, pp. 26-29. Pre-publication version
Szerszynski, B. (2017) ‘From the Anthropocene epoch to a new Axial Age: using theory fictions to explore geo-spiritual futures’, in Religion in the Anthropocene, ed. Celia Deane-Drummond, Sigurd Bergmann and Markus Vogt, Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 35-52. Pre-publication draft.
Macnaghten, P. and B. Szerszynski (2017), ‘Geoengineering/climate intervention’, in The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology, ed. Douglas Richardson, Noel Castree, Michael F. Goodchild, Audrey Kobayashi, Weidong Liu, and Richard A. Marston, London: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Szerszynski, B. (2017) ‘Coloring climates: imagining a geoengineered world’ in The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities, ed. Ursula K. Heise, Jon Christensen, and Michelle Niemann. London: Routledge, 82–90. Pre-publication draft.
Szerszynski, B. (2016) ‘The Martian Book of the Dead’, in Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene, ed. Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino, London: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 325-30
Szerszynski, B. (2016) ‘Out of the Metazoic? Animals as a transitional form in planetary evolution,’ in Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene, ed. Morten Tønnessen, Silver Rattasepp, and Kristin Amstrong Oma, Lexington, MA: Lexington Books. Pre-publication draft.
Saraceno, T., S. Engelmann and B. Szerszynski (2015) ‘Becoming Aerosolar: From Solar Sculptures to Cloud Cities’, in Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies, ed. Heather Davis and Etienne Turpin, London: Open Humanities Press, pp. 57–62.
Szerszynski, B. (2015) ‘Life in the open air’, in What Is Life?, Issues in Science and Theology volume 8, ed. Dirk Evers, M. Fuller, Antje Jackelén and Knut-Willy Saether, Berlin: Springer, pp. 27-41. Pre-publication draft.
Szerszynski, B. (2015) ‘The twilight of the machines’, in Technofutures: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Nature and the Sacred, ed. Celia Deane-Drummond, Sigurd Bergmann and Bronislaw Szerszynski, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 241-57.
Szerszynski, B. (2015) ‘The onomatophore of the Anthropocene: Commission on Planetary Ages Decision CC87966424/49’, in The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis, ed. Clive Hamilton, François Gemenne and Christophe Bonneuil, London: Routledge, pp. 177-83. Preprint – in ‘fax’ form.
Szerszynski, B. (2014) ‘Liberation through hearing in the planetary transition: funerary practices in twenty-second-century Mangalayana Buddhism’, in Grain Vapor Ray: Textures of the Anthropocene, ed. Katrin Klingan, Ashkan Sepahvand, Christoph Rosol and Bernd M. Scherer, Berlin: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, pp. 149-64. Pre-publication draft.
Reynolds, L. & Szerszynski, B. (2014) ‘The post-political and the end of nature: the case of agricultural biotechnology’, in The Post-Political and Its Discontents: Spaces of Depoliticization, Spectres of Radical Politics, ed. Japhy Wilson and Erik Swyngedouw, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Pre-publication draft.
Galarraga, M. & Szerszynski, B. (2012) ‘Making climates: solar radiation management and the ethics of fabrication’, in Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management, ed. Christopher Preston, Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington, pp 221-35. Pre-publication draft.
Reynolds, L. & Szerszynski, B. (2012) ‘Neoliberalism and technology: permanent innovation or permanent crisis?’, in Neoliberalism and Technoscience: Critical Assessments, ed. Luigi Pellizzoni & Marja Ylönen, Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 27-46. Pre-publication draft.
Reynolds, L. & Szerszynski, B. (2011) ‘Contested agro-technological futures: the GMO and the construction of European space’, in Exploring Central and Eastern Europe’s Biotechnological Landscape, ed. Peter Robbins and Farah Huzair, Berlin: Springer, pp. 177-200.
Szerszynski, B. (2011), ‘Repensando o secular: ciência, tecnologia e religião hoje’ in Teologia i Ciências Naturais: Teologia da Criação, Ciência e Tecnologia em Diálogo, ed. Eduardo R. da Cruz, São Paulo: Paulinas.
Szerszynski, B. (2010), ‘Understanding creationism and evolution in America and Europe’, in Science and Religion: New Historical Perspectives, ed. Thomas Dixon, Geoffrey Cantor and Stephen Pumfrey, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 153-174.
Szerszynski, B. & Urry, J. (2009) ‘Cultures of cosmopolitanism’, in Globalization and Culture, Volume 1: Globalizing Communications, ed. Paul James and John Tulloch, London: Sage, pp. 335-354
Szerszynski, B. (2009), ‘The religious roots of our technological condition’, in Technology, Trust and Religion: Roles of Religion in Controversies on Ecology and the Modification of Life, ed. Willem B. Drees, Leiden: Leiden University Press, pp. 25-40.
Szerszynski, B. (2008), ‘Technologie, religie en de beheersing van de natuurin’, in Deus et machina: de verwevenheid van technologie en religie, ed. Michiel D.J. van Well, Den Haag: STT, pp. 26-33.
Fairclough, N., Pardoe, S. & Szerszynski, B. (2006) ‘Critical discourse analysis and citizenship’, in Analysing Citizenship Talk: Social Positioning in Political and Legal Decision-Making Processes, ed. Heiko Hausendorf and Alfons Bora, Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 98-123.
Szerszynski, B. (2004b) ‘Nature, sustainability and the postmodern sacred’, in Religion und Nachhaltigkeit. Multidisziplinäre Zugänge und Sichtweisen, ed. Beate Littig, Münster: LIT Verlag, pp. 247-268.
Szerszynski, B. & Tomalin, E. (2004) ‘Enchantment and its uses: religion and spirituality in environmental direct action’, in Changing Anarchism, ed. Jonathan Purkis and James Bowen, Manchester University Press, pp. 199-212.
Szerszynski, B. (2003a) ‘That deep surface: the human genome project and the death of the human’, in Brave New World? Theology, Ethics and the Human Genome, ed. Celia Deane-Drummond, Edinburgh: T&T Clark, pp. 145-163.
Szerszynski, B. (2003b) ‘Marked bodies: environmental activism and political semiotics’, in Media and the Restyling of Politics: Consumerism, Celebrity and Cynicism, ed. John Corner and Dick Pels, London: Sage, pp. 190-206.
Szerszynski, B. (2003c) ‘At reason’s end: the inoperative liturgy of risk society’, in Re-Ordering Nature: Theology, Society and the New Genetics, ed. Celia Deane-Drummond and Bronislaw Szerszynski (with Robin Grove-White), Edinburgh: T&T Clark, pp. 202-220.
Szerszynski, B. (2003d) ‘Technology, performance and life itself: Hannah Arendt and the fate of nature’, in Nature Performed: Environment, Culture and Performance, ed. Bronislaw Szerszynski, Wallace Heim, and Claire Waterton, Oxford: Blackwell/Sociological Review, pp. 203-218.
Szerszynski, B., Heim, W. & Waterton, C. (2003) ‘Introduction’ in Nature Performed: Environment, Culture and Performance, ed. Bronislaw Szerszynski, Wallace Heim, and Claire Waterton, Oxford: Blackwell/Sociological Review, pp. 1-14.
Szerszynski, B. and Celia Deane-Drummond (2003) ‘Re-ordering nature: a postscript’ in Re-Ordering Nature: Theology, Society and the New Genetics, ed. Celia Deane-Drummond and Bronislaw Szerszynski (with Robin Grove-White), Edinburgh: T&T Clark, pp. 312-324.
Deane-Drummond, C., Grove-White, R. & Szerszynski, B. (2003) ‘Genetically modified theology: the religious dimensions of public concerns about agricultural biotechnology’ in Re-Ordering Nature: Theology, Society and the New Genetics, ed. Celia Deane-Drummond and Bronislaw Szerszynski (with Robin Grove-White), Edinburgh: T&T Clark, pp. 17-38.
Szerszynski, B. & Urry, J. (2001) ‘Visual citizenship’ in Thinkglobal: Cityscape><Landshape Symposium 2000, ed. Laurie Short Carlisle: Think Global Institute: 111-5.
Szerszynski, B. & Toogood, M. (2000) ‘Global citizenship, the environment and the mass media,’ in Environmental Risks and the Media, ed. Stuart Allan, Barbara Adam, and Cynthia Carter, London: Routledge, pp. 218-228.
Szerszynski, B., Urry, J. & Myers, G. (2000) ‘Mediating global citizenship’, in J. Smith (ed.) The Daily Globe: Environmental Change, the Public and the Media, London: Earthscan, pp. 97-114.
Szerszynski, B. (1999b) ‘Performing politics: the dramatics of environmental protest,’ in Culture and Economy After the Cultural Turn, ed. Larry Ray and Andrew Sayer, London: Sage, pp. 211-228.
Szerszynski, B. (1998) ‘Communities of good practice,’ in The Good Life, ed. Ian Christie and Lindsay Nash, London: Demos, pp. 148-54.
Szerszynski, B. (1997b) ‘Voluntary associations and the sustainable society,’ in Greening the Millennium? The New Politics of the Environment, ed. Michael Jacobs, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 148-159.
Szerszynski, B. (1996a) ‘On knowing what to do: environmentalism and the modern problematic,’ in Risk, Environment and Modernity: Towards a New Ecology, ed. Scott Lash, Bronislaw Szerszynski, and Brian Wynne, London: Sage/TCS, pp. 84-103.
Szerszynski, B., Lash, S. & Wynne, B. (1996) ‘Introduction: ecology, realism and the social sciences,’ in Risk, Environment and Modernity: Towards a New Ecology, ed. Scott Lash, Bronislaw Szerszynski, and Brian Wynne, London: Sage/TCS, pp. 1-26.