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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 132–166.
Published: 01 May 2020
... to the depths, engaging with the Caribbean Sea and contemporary artists who depict a gendered oceanic intimacy and aesthetics of diffraction and submergence. Building upon the 2017 exhibition Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago , curated by Tatiana Flores, this article...
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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 (2024) 16 (2): 291–308.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Stuart Earle Strange Abstract This article describes Maroon anti-necropolitics and its implications for multispecies justice to aid in creating a genuinely decolonial Caribbean ecological theory. Ndyuka Maroons, the descendants of one nation of self-liberated formerly enslaved Black Surinamese...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 554–570.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Hannah Rachel Cole Abstract The biologist Merlin Sheldrake has named the tendency for humans to privilege plants to the exclusion of fungi “plant-centrism.” Connecting Sheldrake’s claim to critiques of the Caribbean plantation system, this article argues that plant-centrism is inherent...
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in Submerged Bodies: The Tidalectics of Representability and the Sea in Caribbean Art
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 1. Tony Capellán, Mar invadido , 2015, detail. Found objects from the Caribbean Sea, 360 × 228 in. Installation view at Pérez Art Museum Miami. Photo by Oriol Tarridas. Courtesy of Pérez Art Museum Miami.
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 361–366.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of the eighteenth-century Caribbean and southern United States. 2 Today, monocrop oil palm, timber, and soy proliferation across the Global South is driven by a range of multi-scalar factors: global food security imperatives, national economic development prerogatives, international renewable energy targets...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 58–78.
Published: 01 March 2024
... migration and horticultural know-how. The Orientalist worldview of many white residents of Miami during this period—including David Fairchild, who named his home the Kampong in memory of his formative botanizing experiences in Southeast Asia—met the Black and Caribbean circuits that recentered Miami...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 271–290.
Published: 01 July 2024
.... Anticipating Wynter, John Parry, two decades prior, had opined that, for Caribbean people, “their history must explain primarily their own experiences. Their economic history should be the story of yams, cassava, and salt fish, no less than of sugar and tobacco.” 21 The yam—and other plot crops—suggests...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 202–215.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Blackness and animality, and through how Caribbean and other non-European cultures relate in less controlling, less calcified ways to animals. Chapter 2, which charts how dogs were used to control slaves and later protestors (shaping a long-standing cultural fascination with dogs attacking Black people...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 2–7.
Published: 01 November 2023
... the challenge of learning and teaching the grammar of animacy, while Malcolm Ferdinand stitches across what he calls the “double fracture” between colonial history and environmental history by putting Caribbean ecology and Maroon experience at the heart of Plantationocene history. 5 These perspectives...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 235–250.
Published: 01 November 2023
...—for confronting and narrating environmental and planetary crises in new and effective ways. 5 Angela Last has looked beyond White for an alternative history of contemporary geopoetics among postcolonial Black Caribbean writers, and in particular Daniel Maximin, who Last noted has contributed to a “(geo...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 171–174.
Published: 01 May 2017
... services in nineteenth-century Australia, like the descendants of horses and burros who filled similar roles in western North America, are now considered invasive pest species, at least by some people. 7 During the same period, the mongoose was introduced to islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 422–425.
Published: 01 July 2024
... into the future. The dust of Australia’s ancient soils, Leane reminds us, outlives colonial history—experiences of dispossession, ecological wreckage, depletion. “Nurambang Yali—Country Speaks” resonates with the “language of landscape” that Caribbean writer and intellectual Edouard Glissant held up against...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2024
... Studies.” Edited collections of specific interest include Blackmore and Gómez, Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art ; Chen, Macleod, and Neimanis, Thinking with Water ; Cohen and Quigley, Aesthetics of the Undersea . 26. Nelson, Bluets , 59 . 27. Kristeva...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 141–154.
Published: 01 May 2012
... on-site, expensive mills—and the desire to keep them running continuously. Yet fungal fermentation turned out to be a gift to the planters. It didn't take Caribbean planters long to observe that molasses, a byproduct of sugar milling, suited ubiquitous local yeast spores and quickly changed to alcohol...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 284–291.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of colonialism that Caribbean writers achieved demonstrates that they recognized very clearly the violent work geopoetics did inside the colonial condition. By giving origin stories new futures and participating in providing languages for geologic subjectivity, they gave geopoetics a less deadly decolonial...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 766–783.
Published: 01 November 2024
... , 2011 . McGranahan Carole . “ Theorizing Refusal: An Introduction .” Cultural Anthropology 31 , no. 3 ( 2016 ): 319 – 25 . McKittrick Katherine . “ Plantation Futures .” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 1 , no. 3 ( 2013 ): 1 – 15 . Mitchell Timothy...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 62–84.
Published: 01 July 2023
... Bank, an institution that was founded by wealthy plantation owners, supplied the finance. Subsequently, numerous engines were exported to the sugar cane fields of the Caribbean for mills to refine the crop. 46 The technical and anthropocentric mentalities that have accompanied the engine belie...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 351–372.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of Peru’s Gastronomic Boom .” Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 18 , no. 3 ( 2013 ): 505 – 24 . García María Elena , and Lucero José Antonio . “ Exceptional Others: Politicians, Rottweilers, and Alterity in the 2006 Peruvian Elections .” Latin American and Caribbean...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 66–92.
Published: 01 May 2021
... concept of tropicalization, which describes the visual systems through which the Anglophone Caribbean was imagined for tourist consumption and their impacts on spaces and the multispecies communities inhabiting them. 29 Kirstenbosch was to look natural and its policy was to prioritize the collection...
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