We are excited to welcome Dominic Hinde to discuss his latest book, Drifting North: Finding a Sustainable Future in Scotland's Past. Blending memoir, travelogue and environmental history, Hinde's compelling narrative travels across Scotland to ask a vital question: can the lessons of the past help us build a more sustainable future?
Scotland's history and future are entangled with climate change and the story of the modern world. This small country on the fringes of northern Europe pioneered fossil capitalism and played a key role in its spread across the planet. It is a living museum of the crisis of the west, of deindustrialisation, stagnation and the struggle to build a better future from the ashes.Journalist and sociologist Dominic Hinde travels from the treeless Highlands to the lowland cities, struggling to balance memories with aspiration. Through this journey he finds that his own sensory turmoil, shaped by recovery from a near fatal accident, mirrors the disarray of the fossil fuel transition - an uncertain passage between what was and what must be.
Dominic Hinde is a writer, journalist and Sociologist based at the University of Glasgow. In his career he has researched in and reported from Germany, Scandinavia, the Baltics, the USA, Japan and South America for outlets including the New Statesman, Guardian, Prospect and the BBC. At the University of Glasgow he teaches Journalism and Global Change, and researches stories of environmental transition. Drifting North is his second public book, a travelogue combining sociology and journalistic storytelling to show Scotland and the world at a critical moment in the history of the country and the planet.
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Sir Duncan Rice Library, Seminar Room 224 (2nd Floor), University of Aberdeen
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