Jun.-Prof. Dr. Fynn Holm

Aufsätze

Monographien

Wissenschaftliche Vorträge

Öffentliche Vorträge

Interviews in Medien

Holm, Fynn. 2023. “Uniquely Alpine, Uniquely Japan: The Transformation of the Mountain Valley Kamikōchi into an Alpine Landscape, 1892-1938” Environmental History, vol. 28, no. 1, January 2023, p. 109-132. https://doi.org/10.1086/722505.

Aronsson, Anne; Fynn Holm. 2022. “Multispecies Entanglements in the Virosphere: Rethinking the Anthropocene in Light of the 2019 Coronavirus Outbreak” The Anthropocene Review, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 24-36. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053019620979326.

Aronsson, Anne; Fynn Holm and Melissa Kaul. 2021. “Finding Agency in Nonhumans: Introduction,” special issue of Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism, vol. 8, issue 1-2, p. 7-14. https://dx.doi.org/10.7358/rela-2020-0102-intr.

Aronsson, Anne; Fynn Holm. 2021. “Conceptualizing Robotic Agency: Social Robots in Elder Care in Contemporary Japan,” special issue of Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism vol. 8, issue 1-2, p. 17-35. https://dx.doi.org/10.7358/rela-2020-0102-arho.

Holm, Fynn. 2021. “Bringing Fish to the Shore: Fishermen’s Knowledge and the Anti-Whaling Protests in Norway and Japan, 1900-1912” Journal of Global History, vol. 16, no. 3, November 2021, p. 355-374. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022820000212.

Holm, Fynn. 2020. “The Polluted Past of the Whaling Town Hachinohe.” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia (Spring 2020), no 16. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/9038.

Holm, Fynn. 2020. “The Whales and the Tsunami: The Reconstruction and Reinvention of the ‘Whaling Town’ Ayukawa,” in Das ländliche Japan zwischen Idylle und Verfall, Diskurse um Regionalität, Natur und Nation, eds. Ludgera Lewerich; Theresa Sieland and Timo Thelen (Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf University Press), p. 95-119.

Holm, Fynn. 2019. “Japans Walfangpolitik: Die Gründe für den Austritt aus der Internationalen Walfangkommission,” in Japan 2019: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, eds. David Chiavacci and Iris Wieczorek (München: Iudicium), p. 126-151.

Holm, Fynn. 2019. “After Withdrawal from the IWC: The Future of Japanese Whaling” The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 17, issue 4, no. 4, p. 1-16. https://apjjf.org/2019/04/Holm.html.

Holm, Fynn. 2019. “Kujira no reiko no tame no matsuri” Trans: Koji Kato, Nicchūkan Shūeniki no Shūkyō Bunka, no. 5, March 2019, p. 41-46.

Holm, Patricia; Fynn J. Holm und Jürgen Holm. 2016. “Wal und Mensch: Jagen – beobachten – vergöttern” Biologie in unserer Zeit, vol. 46, issue 5, p. 300-307.  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/biuz.201610602.

Holm, Fynn. 2023. The Gods of the Sea: Whales and Coastal Communities in Northeast Japan, c. 1600-2019. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Holm, Fynn. “Massentourismus oder Überflutung? Diskussionen um die Zukunft des japanischen Hochtales Kamikōchi” (Mass tourism or flooding? Discussions about the future of the Japanese high valley Kamikōchi) 18. Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag, Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, August 2022.

Holm, Fynn. “Creating a Swiss Mountain Valley: The Transformation of the Kamikōchi Valley in the Japanese Alps” Swiss Congress of Historical Science, University of Geneva, Geneva, July 2022.

Holm, Fynn. “Three Thousand Ebisu: Dolphin Worship and Hunts in Northeastern Japan” Aquatic Powers Conference, University of Oslo, Oslo, June 2022.

Holm, Fynn. “Killing the Gods of the Sea: Japanese Religious and Environmental Attitudes towards Whales and Dolphins” Guest Lecture, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, May 2022 (invited).

Holm, Fynn. “The Whales and the Tsunamis: Living with Tsunamis in Tōhoku’s Last Whaling Town” American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, March 2022.

Holm, Fynn. “Industrial Whaling and the Expansion of the Japanese Maritime Empire, 1890-1912” Association for Asian Studies New England Regional Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, December 2021.

Holm, Fynn. “Whale Blood at the Beach: Coastal Pollution and the Anti-Whaling Movements in Japan and Norway, 1900-1912” Whales of Power Guest Lecture, University of Oslo, Oslo, January 2020 (invited).

Holm, Fynn. “Japanese Discourses on the Sustainable Use of Whales” Asianet: The Asian Century Conference, University of Oslo, Oslo, June 2019.

Holm, Fynn. “The Coastal Frontier: Constructing Whaling Stations for the Japanese Pelagic Empire” Knowledge, Materiality, and Environment in Transpacific Histories of Oceanic Transformation Conference, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, April 2019 (invited).

Holm, Fynn. “Burning down the Whaling Station” Practicing Power in the Global Asia-Pacific Symposium, Sophia University, Tokyo, December 2018 (invited).

Holm, Fynn. “Sozialgeschichte des Walfangs in Sendai” (Social history of whaling in Sendai) 17. Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, August 2018. 

Holm, Fynn. “Sanriku Engan no Hogei no Bunka-shi” (The cultural history of whaling at the Sanriku coast) Tohoku Minzoku no Kai, Tohoku University, Sendai, October 2017 (invited).

Holm, Fynn. “Imperial Science and Local Knowledge” European Society for Environmental History, 2017 Conference “Natures in Between”, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, June 2017. 

Holm, Fynn. “Nation Building and Whaling Northeast Japan” European Association for Japanese Studies, PhD Workshop, L’École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, July 2016.

Holm, Fynn. “Japans konfliktreicher Weg zur Walfangnation“ (Japans conflictual path towards a whaling nation), Initative für historische Japanforschung, Halle, June 2016.

Holm, Fynn. “Chūritsuteki na Shiten de no Hogei-shi” (A neutral perspective on the history of whaling), Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Wadaura, January 2016 (invited).

Holm, Fynn “The gift exercise/Invitation 7: Swiss National Park”, Fundaziun Nairs, Scoul November 2022 (Interdisciplinary Talk).

Holm, Fynn “Wiederaufbau der «eigenen» Kultur? Walfang in Nordjapan nach dem grossen Erdbeben und Tsunami von 2011” (Reconstruction of culture? Whaling in Northern Japan after the Great Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011), Völkerkundemuseum, Zurich April 2021.  

Holm, Fynn “The Meat That No One Eats: Why Does Japan Continue Whaling?”, Asia Society Switzerland, Webcast, May 2020.  

Holm, Fynn. “Die Jagd nach den Göttern der Meere: Walfang in Japan“ (Hunting the Gods of the Sea: Whaling in Japan), Schweizer Wal Gesellschaft, Zurich, November 2019.

Holm, Fynn. “Die Zukunft des japanischen Küstenwalfanges“ (The Future of Japanese Coastal Whaling), 21. firmm-Treffen, Aarau, 16.2.2019.

Holm, Fynn. “Einführung zu ‘The Cove’” (Introduction to ‘The Cove’), Filmstelle VSETH, Zurich, 4.12.2018.

Rieger, Jennifer. “Walfang in Japan: Die lange Leidensgeschichte der sanften Riesen”, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 8.03.2018 (Radio Expert Interview).

The Newsmakers. “Japan Lifts Ban on Whaling”, TRT World, July 2019 (Live TV Expert Interview).