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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Ralph Litzinger; Fan Yang Abstract This article brings together recent writing on eco-media, media materialism, and racialized Otherness to rethink the place of China and Asia in debates about the Anthropocene. We begin by examining the nonwhite postapocalyptic futures imagined in Bong Joon-ho’s...
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Narrating Extinctions for Survivance: An Indigenous Rice-Human Perspective from Mao Chenyu’s Films
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 331–350.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of extinction beyond mass death demands counterextinction measures to aim for more than survival. This volition can be summarized by the term survivance , an ethical way of living in end-times. It concludes by contextualizing Mao’s work in post–Green Revolution China, where a logic of survival has driven mass...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 39–61.
Published: 01 July 2023
... Region, China (PDFS2021-4H05). 1. Satoyama is a transitional landscape in rural Japan that typically connects woodlands or forested spaces with land that is inhabitable by humans. See Takeuchi et al., Satoyama . 2. Iitate is located in the Abukuma mountain range in Fukushima prefecture...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 427–460.
Published: 01 November 2019
... already emerged as a response to the rapidly deteriorating environment in the mid-1990s. Lu Shuyuan, one of the most important ecocritics in China, began offering courses on ecological literature and arts. The nondualistic term ecology , according to Zeng Fanren, is more suited to express the notion...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 709–724.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Andrew Alan Johnson Abstract The Mekong River is experiencing a crisis, with water flows and flood cycles rendered unstable owing to large-scale hydropower development in China and Laos. As communities face the radical decline of fisheries and unexpected floods and ebbs, residents and regional NGOs...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 280–294.
Published: 01 March 2025
... cell phone battery in one of Apple’s manufacturing bases in China and later commercialization in the United States and Chile, where the lithium atom originated. The essay highlights lithium extraction’s different scales and geopolitics to reflect on how transnational technology companies design...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 190–202.
Published: 01 November 2023
...). hydrology Canada China money geology In a sleek luxury mall on the main drag of shopping centers and condo towers in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, Rupert tracks his laser pointer through the tiny rooms of the architectural model of the Matisse. The laser point flitters across the foam core...
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“The Only Almost Germ-Free Continent Left”: Pandemics and Purity in Cultural Perceptions of Antarctica
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 109–127.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of Antarctica Tour Operators, “Visitor Statistics Downloads.” 71. Brady, “China’s Expanding Interests in Antarctica.” 72. Dodds and Hemmings, “Territory in the Wider Geopolitics,” 1430 . 73. Ooi, “Asian Tourists and Cultural Complexity.” 74. Cheung, “Growth of Chinese Tourism...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2025
... fertilized rice fields and vegetable gardens. 16 Western visitors often experienced China through “the pungent odor of human body wastes.” 17 In Japan human waste was “deemed critical to agricultural productivity.” 18 In India, by contrast, human excrement was not used for agriculture...
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Plantation
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 361–366.
Published: 01 July 2022
...–138 ; Pérez, “La Mosquitía” ; Leguizamón, Seeds of Power . From Southeast Asia, see Chao, In the Shadow of the Palms , “(Un)Worlding the Plantationocene” ; Li, Plantation Life . From China, see Liu, “Forest Sustainability in China” ; Xu, Industrial Tree Plantations . From Africa, see...
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Hanahaki Disease
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 692–696.
Published: 01 November 2024
.... Xianxia is “a type of narrative that involves immortal beings and the cultivation of immortality” in Chinese media ( Sun and Yang, “Love Stories in Contemporary China,” 12 ), while anime is the shortened form of the Japanese word animēshon (animation) ( Novielli, Floating Worlds , 4 ). 6...
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Foreword: A Wrinkle in Space
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 300–308.
Published: 01 November 2017
... and Place Creation in Mars Pathfinder Media Coverage .” Geographical Review 97 , no. 1 ( 2007 ): 112 – 30 . Erickson Andrew S. “ China’s Space Development History: A Comparison of the Rocket and Satellite Sectors .” Acta Astronautica 103 ( 2014 ): 142 – 67 . Finney Ben...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 40–59.
Published: 01 May 2017
... givenness. 4. Latour, Reassembling the Social , 46; Latour, We Have Never Been Modern . 5. Ma et al., “Rethinking China’s New Great Wall.” 6. Doyle, Day, and Michot, “Development of Sea Level Rise Scenarios”; Wang et al., “InSAR Reveals Coastal Subsidence.” 7. Based on my own...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 73–102.
Published: 01 May 2015
..., China) to Hooker concerns their respectfully differing views on the theory of evolution, “a subject which people willingly avoid at home—where there is often so much narrowness, and impatience of contradiction or opposition; and particularly that you should say that you would only have done so to me...
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View articletitled, Global Plants and Digital Letters: Epistemological Implications of Digitising the Directors' Correspondence at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Heroic Fear: Emotions, Masculinity, and Dangerous Nature in British Colonial Adventure Narratives
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 162–182.
Published: 01 March 2024
... scholars have given further attention to the anxieties that disease has caused in modern empires more broadly. 32 Again, though, the focus is on broad social norms, and we lack understanding of individuals’ experience of emotions. A rare exception is Mueggler’s work on botanists in West China and Tibet...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 85–102.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., “i've read that women in remote villages in China / invented script men couldn't read” (39). The political poems are in a form of écriture feminine, holding language and letters back from use in the progress of logos. Letters are reclaimed, however, and used as a source of power in the poem...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 807–825.
Published: 01 November 2024
... by practitioners of the Tibeto-Himalayan science of healing—also known as Sowa Rigpa—as soon as the novel coronavirus started spreading rapidly across the globe in early 2020. Initially within China, and soon thereafter across the Tibetan diaspora and among professional associations and educational institutions...
View articletitled, The Resurgence of a Tibetan Medical Hauntology: Diagnosing COVID-19 as the Spectral “Revenge of Nature” during the Anthropause
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Hokusai's Great Wave Enters the Anthropocene
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 203–217.
Published: 01 May 2016
... connection, too; prints were made using not the then usual indigo, but a newly fashionable synthetic dye called Berlin Blue, imported to Japan from Germany via China. This blue, Guth suggests, “materialized the relation between Japan and the world beyond its shores, making the medium part of the message...
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Weird
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 275–280.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Radiation-Shield.” 12. Dadachova et al., “Ionizing Radiation.” 13. Skunk et al. “Self-Replicating Radiation-Shield.” 14. Love, “What Radiation-Resistant Space Fungus Can Do for Drug Discovery.” 15. Fisher, Weird and the Eerie . 16. New Weird authors include China...
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A Planetary Battery
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 643–660.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of Kaifeng in what is now modern China burned more coal than London would do until five hundred years later. This precocious fossil-fuel-using city only decarbonized when the area was sacked by Genghis Khan’s army. 8 However, coal-fired life evolved distinctly in Europe. In the eighteenth century, when...
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