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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 438–456.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Anand Pandian Abstract Migration is a bedrock reality of earthly life. This truth invites us to imagine the span of the Americas beginning not with borders and walls but instead with movement beyond them. What might our continents and countries begin to look and feel like if we acknowledged...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 21–44.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Heather Houser Abstract Petrochemical America , an art book and atlas cocreated by photographer Richard Misrach and landscape architect Kate Orff, is a rejoinder to commonplaces about oil’s invisibility and evasion of representation. The book’s visualizations produce a narrative atlas that depicts...
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Figure 1. Orff, “Landscape Impacts of Petrochemistry.” Petrochemical America: Ecological Atlas , New York: Aperture Foundation, 2012. Courtesy Kate Orff/SCAPE; developed in collaboration with photographer Richard Misrach.
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Figure 3. Orff, “Depths of Addiction.” Petrochemical America: Ecological Atlas , New York: Aperture Foundation, 2012. Courtesy Kate Orff/SCAPE; developed in collaboration with photographer Richard Misrach.
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Figure 4. Orff, “From Seabed to Swamp” (detail). Petrochemical America: Ecological Atlas , New York: Aperture Foundation, 2012. Courtesy Kate Orff/SCAPE; developed in collaboration with photographer Richard Misrach.
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Figure 5. Orff, “From Salt Dome to Pipe” (detail). Petrochemical America: Ecological Atlas , New York: Aperture Foundation, 2012. Courtesy Kate Orff/SCAPE; developed in collaboration with photographer Richard Misrach.
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 182–201.
Published: 01 March 2022
... is problematic because of its inability to recognize other conceptualizations of the Earth held by Indigenous and Black peoples in the Americas and the Caribbean. As a case in point, the author critically engages with a failed attempt to accommodate Black enslaved experiences into a wilderness perspective made...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 301–322.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Lauren Fugate; John MacNeill Miller Abstract Scientists, environmentalists, and nature writers often report that all common starlings ( Sturnus vulgaris ) in North America descend from a flock released in New York City in 1890 by Eugene Schieffelin, a man obsessed with importing all the birds...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 543–563.
Published: 01 November 2022
... and for queer and racialized subjects as prongs of a demonic assault on the futurity of white Christian America. Such texts reveal spiritual warfare demonology to rest on an ecological ultimatum: that nature will be normative or it will not be at all. 24. For the structure, ties, and influence...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 129–149.
Published: 01 May 2018
... know what it is like to be one. In Nagel’s account, heterogeneity is figured negatively—as a failure or lack of resemblance—and functions to constrain his knowledge of bats. Today, as white-nose syndrome threatens bat populations across North America, might figuring heterogeneity positively...
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Oil as Solution to the Problems of Oil: The American Petroleum Institute and the Petromodern Paradox
Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 45–65.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Kyle Conway; Manjulika E. Robertson Abstract In North America, one factor shaping petromodernity is the idea that oil offers a solution to the very problems it causes. This article examines that paradox, focusing on the 1950s. It analyzes a set of pamphlets from the Petroleum Industry School...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 159–180.
Published: 01 May 2021
... counterapocalypse, including abundance, reciprocity, collaboration, and coevolution. These are found everywhere in complex ecosystems and relate closely to the principles on which theories and practices of the commons are founded, both in Latin America and beyond. © 2021 Joanna Page 2021 This is an open access...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 25–41.
Published: 01 May 2013
... . Berry Wendell . The Long-Legged House . Berkeley : Counterpoint Press , 2003 . Berry Wendell . Sex, Economy, Community, & Freedom . New York : Pantheon , 1993 . Berry Wendell . The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture . San Francisco : Sierra Club Books...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 227–232.
Published: 01 May 2016
...); Bell Hooks, Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Boston, MA: South End Press, 1981); Jaimes, M. Annette, ed., The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization, and Resistance (Boston, MA: South End Press, 1992). 20 Sara Ahmed, “Some Striking Feature: Whiteness and Institutional...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 303–320.
Published: 01 July 2022
... through several decades of story, the foundations of settler colonial environmental thinking have their own deep, interlocking root systems, which have grown into the United States’ colonial traditions. When Europe was first colonizing the Americas, they did so with what is known as the “discovery...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 117–146.
Published: 01 May 2013
... with a festering America; he was dangerously close to convincing himself that racism sprang from permanently poisoned soil, that it was something inbred, something that remained unyielding to every attempt at reason, moral suasion, nonviolence. Suicide seemed like the only way out. In desperation, he lashed...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 190–202.
Published: 01 November 2023
... at the Pacific edge of North America. I explore how the phase shifts of liquid capital, from renminbi to Canadian dollars to islands of concrete, encounter islands of liquefactable silt through the juxtaposition of two moments of Asian landing in North America through the shapeshifting hydraulic pressures...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 63–85.
Published: 01 May 2018
... K. , Moorman Michelle C. , and Rosemond Amy D. “ Do Introduced North American Beavers Castor canadensis Engineer Differently in Southern South America? An Overview with Implications for Restoration .” Mammal Society , no. 39 ( 2008 ): 33 – 52 . Armesto Juan J...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 361–366.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., “End of the Road?” ; Benítez-Rojo, La isla que se repite . 3. For examples from India, see Besky, Darjeeling Distinction ; Galvin, Becoming Organic ; Ali, Local History of Global Capital . From Latin America, see Aráoz, “América Latina” ; Escobar, Territorios de diferencia , 93...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 203–218.
Published: 01 November 2023
... models at home to secure British Columbia’s economic future. Figure 2. Beetle-killed pine near Smithers. Photograph by the author. Figure 2. Beetle-killed pine near Smithers. Photograph by the author. Most mineral prospecting work in North America no longer takes place along...
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