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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 45–55.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Hsuan L. Hsu Copyright © 2014 Regents of the University of Colorado 2014 L iterary To po g r a ph ies a n d th e Scales of E n v ir o n m e n t a l J ustice H S U A N L. H S U C ARTO G R APHY has been a powerful tool in struggles fo r environm ental justice. By visually correlating data...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 135–142.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Literature, Environm ental Justice, and Ecocriticism : The M iddle Place would consolidate in critical term s the connections between Native American literature and environmental justice. Adamson's monograph suggests that indigenous literary and oral w orks were central to, as one c ritic puts it, "'co n fro...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 121–134.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., scholars of ecocriticism , environmental philosophy and history, ethnic studies, ecofem inism s, environm ental sociology, political ecology, among others, have been coming together to lay the foundations o f the interdisciplinary and still em ergent field of the environm ental hum anities.1 Several recent...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 71–79.
Published: 01 March 2017
... as we do so in a more "ecologically responsible" way. On the other horizon looms the familiar shore of the traditional environm entalist narrative: if we cease to seek mastery over the Earth and preserve w hat is le ft of the natural w orld untouched by hum anity, we can reverse the damage we have done...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 113–120.
Published: 01 March 2017
... to solve environm ental problems, or are we fiddling while Rome burns? When we insist on the profound yet overlooked importance of the environmental humanities, do we insist too much? Can we really blame our colleagues in the social and natural sciences for asking us to prove it? I ask these questions...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 163–166.
Published: 01 March 2017
... where she directs the Environmental Humanities Initiative (EHI). She lectures internationally and is the author and/or co-editor of many books th a t helped to establish and expand the environmental hum anities, including Keywords fo r Environm ental Studies (New York University Press, 2016) and Hum...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in the developm ent of the environm ental hum anities. W hat objects of inquiry are being addressed; by w hat newer or older conceptual/cultural forces and desires are they being pushed or pulled? Do their paths diverge or cross? W hat debates are they initiating? W hat paths are they describing? A t this moment...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 89–99.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Lawrence Buell Copyright © 2017 Regents of the University of Colorado 2017 T h e A n t h r o p o c e n e Ta k e o v e r : Hazards for Environm ental Hum anists Law rence B uell T his essay falls into three unequal parts. First, a short reconnaissance of the four hazards to which my title...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 53–60.
Published: 01 March 2017
.... W ild life1 to recent objections about the Keystone Pipeline's effects on "cultural soundscapes," aesthetics has played an im portant role in the historical development of environm ental e th ics.2 A t the heart of this relationship is the belief th a t in our encounter w ith aesthetically rich...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 81–88.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., infrastructures of energy, extraction, transport, and waste are inseparable from human im pact and environm ental damage. Perhaps this is why infrastructure is a recurring trope in philosophical investigations of the natural world: one thinks of Heidegger's dam on the Rhine th a t converts nature into "standing...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 101–112.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of attaining environm ental inform ation has morphed into one of managing environm ental sensation. Or, to play o ff the title of a recent collection, numbers have turned to nerves.1 W hat can we learn about environm ental culture and interpretive approaches if we regard inform ation, sensation, and feeling...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 19–30.
Published: 01 March 2014
... u t borders, w ith different kinds of divisions at stake. How m ight one calibrate the globe in globalization w ith the planet at risk in environm ental crisis? And w hat can be gained by distinguishing between them? A related question, not fu lly addressed here, is how these tw o rubrics differ...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 187–196.
Published: 01 March 2014
... escapes Into nature, naïve attempts to divorce oneself from the over-planned environm ent of the city.1 Rather, these journeys "out of to w n " were opportunities fo r participants to perform social and spatial experim ents in laboratories of the ir ow n design. In contrast to the politically overde­ term...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 153–162.
Published: 01 March 2017
... to seasonal and inter-annual environm ental changes. A t the same tim e, our societies have been heavily disrupted by colonialism , capitalism , and industrial­ ization. Regarding Indigenous peoples in the A rctic, Callison w rites th a t clim ate change is "Understood as an emergent form of life clim ate...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 41–51.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of the natural environm ent. In her essay "The Uses of Landscape," Alison Byerly presents a strong critique of the application of the aesthetic category of the picturesque to the natural environm ent. She argues th a t the pic­ turesque concept of the environm ent "perm its the view er to define and control...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 143–152.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Emily T. Yeh Copyright © 2017 Regents of the University of Colorado 2017 P olitical. Ec o lo g y , C r itiq ue, a n d Multiple O n to lo g ies: Musings on the Po sth u m an an d Other Environm ental Turns E m i l y T. Y e h In tro d u ctio n : N ew Turns? As a graduate student in the late...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 207–211.
Published: 01 March 2014
... is the author of An Errant Eye: Poetry and Topography in Early M odern France (2011) and À fleu r de page: Voir et lire le texte de la Renaissance (Paris: Éditions Gar­ nier, forthcom ing). He teaches in the Departments o f Visual & Environm ental Studies and Ro­ mance Languages at Harvard University. Earlier w...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 March 2014
... as a key site of cultural and Im aginative re­ working; and yet the com plex and ancient histories of such sym bolic mediations between hum ans and th e ir spatial environm ents belie the ir contem porary currency. This special issue of ELN, "Im ag ina ry Cartographies," follow s a range of mapping...
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English Language Notes (2003) 40 (4): 11–24.
Published: 01 June 2003
... Proceeding from a posi­ tion known as deep ecology (which places the Earth n o t hum an beings at the center o f an environm ental ethic),Joplin approvingly finds Wordsworth moving towards a potentially eco­ logical w orld as he rejects a hum an-centered, o r anthropocentric, approach to the Earth...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 259–263.
Published: 01 March 2012
... orking w ith film , video, and installation, her works explore themes of history and counter-memory, p o liti­ cal m ythology, and environm ental catastrophe. A d am B rad ley is an associate professor o f English at the U n ive rsity of Colorado Boulder. He is the a u tho r or e d ito r o f several...