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Nina Wormbs

Prof. Dr. Nina Wormbs

Carson fellow

Nina Wormbs (MS in engineering physics, PhD in history of technology) is professor of history of technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Nina has initially worked in the fields of media history and digitalization. Today, her research focuses on climate change from the perspective of the environmental humanities, including concerns such as the normativity of scientific assessments and the temporal dimensions of climate change models. An ongoing project analyzes the individual legitimacy of nonaction. Nina communicates research in the daily press and on public service radio, and ensures a close cooperation with society as a member of steering committees and commissions. From 2013 to 2014 Nina was the public inquirer on digitalization of radio for the Ministry of Culture in Sweden.

RCC Research Project: Satellite Sublime


Selected Publications:

  • with M. Wolrath Söderberg, "Knowledge, Fear, and Conscience: Reasons to Stop Flying Because of Climate Change." Urban Planning 6, no. 2 (2021), 314–324.

  • with Lisa Ruth Rand, "Techno-diplomacy of the Planetary Periphery, 1960s–1970s." In History of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU): Transnational Techno-diplomacy from the Telegraph to the Internet, edited by Gabriele Balbi and Andreas Fickers, 297–319. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020.

  • "Technology Dependent Commons." In Routledge Handbook of the Study of the Commons, edited by Blake Hudson, Jonathan D. Rosenbloom, and Daniel G. Cole. New York: Routledge, 2019.

  • with J. Gärdebo, "The Distant Gardener: Remote Sensing of the Planetary Potager." In Gardens and Human Agency in the Anthropocene, edited by Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Simoes, Ana Duarte Rodrigues, and Davide Scarso, 124–142. New York: Routledge, 2019.

  • ed. Competing Arctic Futures: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

  • with M. Christensen, A. E. Nilsson, eds. Media and the Politics of Arctic Climate Change: When the Ice Breaks. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. (2nd ed. 2017)