Daniel NILES 

Biography

Daniel NILES is a human-environmental geographer at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature. His research examines how different forms of traditional environmental knowledge remain sensible through time, and the continuing relevance of these longstanding fields of experience in the Anthropocene. He has served as Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin; Visiting Researcher in the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley; and as consultant for the FAO and Eocene Arts. Recent publications include Le monde dans un panier: esthétique, écologie et culture matérielle (Techniques & Culture, 2021 https://doi.org/10.4000/tc.16717), The charcoal forest: sensing the agencies of nature in Forms of Experienced Environments (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2020, https://osf.io/m5syx/), Science and the experience of nature (with N. Tachimoto, in Nature Sustainability, 2018), and Agricultural Heritage and Conservation Beyond the Anthropocene in the Oxford Handbook of Heritage Studies (Oxford University Press, 2018).