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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 45–65.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Program that were distributed by the American Petroleum Institute (API), the trade organization that promotes the US oil industry. It first describes the evolution of support for and opposition to the oil industry as well as that of the ideas of freedom that the industry sought to mobilize to gain public...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 85–104.
Published: 01 July 2023
... is a rat—glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? —Frank N. Ikard, president, American Petroleum Institute, at the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, 1968 In February 1966, the cover illustration for the leading trade journal Petroleum Management signaled the US oil...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 385–402.
Published: 01 July 2024
...: Popular Struggle, Counterinsurgency, and Human Rights in Colombia . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2016 . LeMenager Stephanie . Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century . Oxford Studies in American Literary History 5. New York : Oxford University Press , 2014...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 21–44.
Published: 01 May 2021
... capacity to “transfor[m] the physical form and social dynamics of the American landscape” with design ( PA , 115). She turns to collaborative atlas making, employing experimental data visualizations to depict how the petroleum industry has shaped US lands, waters, and communities. Petrochemical America...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 52–64.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2014 . Mortimer-Sandilands Catriona . “ Melancholy Natures, Queer Ecologies .” In Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire , edited by Mortimer-Sandilands Catriona and Erickson Bruce...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 643–660.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and petroleum remains usable for around five hundred million years, whereas biomass, without means of preservation, lasts a few weeks or months, perhaps centuries in the case of wood. However, while fossil fuels are a highly effective form of energy storage, their formation was wildly slow and inefficient...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 372–390.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., the Anthropocene and climate change are sometimes reduced to just fossil fuel use. Petroleum, coal, and natural gas become the sole focus, not the cultures who embraced them. As Jemison, Schoolcraft, and Ridge demonstrate, cultures are not defined by their fuels: both the Native American people and the United...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 402–426.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Michael T. Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict . New York : Henry Holt , 2001 . Kuletz Valerie . The Tainted Desert . New York : Routledge , 1998 . LeMenager Stephanie . Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century . Oxford : Oxford University Press...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 501–527.
Published: 01 November 2018
... two people, but as a love affair between an entire society and petroleum (think virginal country girl Sandy transformed into urban sex pot dressed as an oil slick, hot for the car-loving Danny). The cultural migration from rural to urban that accompanies the rise of fossil fuel exploration is embodied...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 147–167.
Published: 01 May 2013
... McIntosh, Hell, chapter 5, “Pride and Ecocide,” esp. 112, 115. 30 John Bellamy Foster, “Marx's Theory of Metabolic Rift: Classical Foundations for Environmental Sociology,” American Journal of Sociology 105, no. 2 (1999): 366-405. 29 George Monbiot, Heat: How We Can Stop the Planet...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 431–453.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of the American public health apparatus.” 8 This has led to increasingly militarized boundaries between body and environment, intensified surveillance at the level of the individual and population, and the expansion of militant subjectivities and biosocialities about health. 9 The remainder...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 266–283.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Ecologies: The Second Annual Lecture of the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers .” Spatialities of Ageing 43 , no. 6 ( 2012 ): 1152 – 62 . Benson Etienne S. “ Re-situating Fieldwork and Re-narrating Disciplinary History in Global Mega...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 November 2016
... – 13 . barandiaran.net/textos/defining_agency . Batygin K. , Laughlin G. , and Morbidelli A. . “ Born of Chaos .” Scientific American , May 2016 , 20 – 29 . Beisel Uli , Ginn Franklin , and Barua Maan , eds. “ Living with Awkward Creatures: Vulnerability...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 110–128.
Published: 01 March 2022
... : Vintage Classics , 2009 . Buck-Morss Susan . The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 1991 . Cerulo Karen A. “ Scents and Sensibility: Olfaction, Sense-Making, and Meaning Attribution .” American Sociological Review 83...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 174–189.
Published: 01 November 2023
.... A gift from geologist Ali Bey and his team: a cut, smoothed, and polished piece of oil shale core. Photograph by the author. When Selim came back with the food a few minutes later, he glanced at the black oil shale stone that had been sitting on the empty chair next to me. “Is this petroleum, Ali...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 235–250.
Published: 01 November 2023
... was speculating about occult chemistry, he was also overseeing the growth of mining in the Netherlands Indies. Royal Dutch Shell had formed in 1907 with interests in Sumatra, while Borneo was being exploited for petroleum by the Batavia Oil Company. Umbgrove was not wholly convinced by the Theosophists...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 57–77.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of synthetic pesticides, turns 51 this year. It is a work celebrated for many things: its deft blending of science and poetry, its trenchant analysis of the corporate-sponsored research that encouraged Americans to spray first and ask questions later, and the critical role it played in catalyzing...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 224–244.
Published: 01 May 2021
... . “ The Same Old Song .” In Marxism and Native Americans , edited by Churchill Ward , 19 – 34 . Cambridge, MA : South End Press , 1983 . Murphy Michelle . The Economization of Life . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2017 . Oosthoek Jan , and Gills Barry K. , eds...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 281–300.
Published: 01 November 2021
... . Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2013 . “ Italian Team Covers Glacier with Giant White Sheets to Slow Melting .” Guardian . June 21 , 2020 . www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/21/italian-team-covers-glacier-with-giant-white-sheets...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 May 2013
... A Thousand Acres; nonfiction like Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006) or Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (2001); or documentaries like Food Inc. (2009). Instead, what is important is redoubled effort toward critical...