Nigel Clark is Professor of Human Geography at Lancaster University. Originally from Aotearoa New Zealand, he has a long-term interest in the way earth processes shape, perturb, and inspire social life. His current concerns include the pyrogeography of explosions, the evolution of human care and compassion, and interactions between the inner and outer Earth. He is the author of Inhuman Nature (2011) and co-author, with Bronislaw Szerszynski, of Planetary Social Thought: The Anthropocene Challenge to the Social Sciences (2021). He also co-editor, with Kathryn Yusoff, of a Theory, Culture & Society special issue on “Geosocial Formations and the Anthropocene” (2017), and, with David Higgins and Tess Somervell, a special issue of Humanities on “Environmental Humanities Approaches to Climate Change” (2020). In 1999 Clark curated the online art exhibition Shrinking Worlds: Islands, Interconnectivity and Climate Change, and he continues to engage with artists such as Florian Germann, Vicki Kerr, Tomás Saraceno, and Gerry Davies around themes of planetary dynamics and sociocultural change.