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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 18–39.
Published: 01 May 2017
... that belonging can be “singularized” to a particular location or landscape. Building on this idea, I examine the encounters of Gorkha tea plantation workers, students, and city dwellers with landslides, a crumbling colonial infrastructure, and urban wildlife. While many analyses of subnational movements in India...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 433–440.
Published: 01 July 2024
... Unmaking at the Alang Shipbreaking Yard in India .” In The Persistence of Technology: History of Repair, Reuse, and Disposal , edited by Krebs Stefan and Weber Heike , 263 – 85 . Bielefeld, Germany : Transcript Verlag , 2021 . Hamilton Jennifer Mae . “ On Bucketing Water...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Aparajita Majumdar Abstract This article analyzes how a failed rubber crop from the plantations of British India became indispensable to the shaping of Indigenous ecologies in the India-Bangladesh borderlands. While a growing scholarship focuses on plants that became profitable within plantation...
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Published: 01 May 2017
Figure 3. Poster from the 2014 Lok Sabha elections in Darjeeling. (Distributed by Election Commission of India.) More
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 162–182.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and sheer topography as part of imperialism’s moral project. It analyzes texts that recount events in and around India and parts of Africa, published between the 1890s and 1940s. The article’s author discusses a range of authors from obscure settlers and army officers to well-known proponents...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 58–78.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and distribution practices of modern infrastructure. In Miami, the US Department of Agriculture established a Plant Introduction Garden in 1898, with “Agricultural Explorer” David Fairchild activating networks connecting India, Kew Gardens, and Washington to bring mostly Asian tropical fruits, shrubs, and flowers...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 52–71.
Published: 01 May 2019
... journey across the dense forests of Bastar in east-central India re-articulates the significance of this contested environmental space from the perspective of the region’s indigenous minorities. Traveling with a troop of indigenous rebels hailing from the Gond, Halba, and Muria communities for more than...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 118–142.
Published: 01 May 2016
... care in times of death and loss: at places of confinement and elephant suffering like the zoos in Seattle and Zürich as well as in the conflict-ridden landscapes of South India, where the country’s last free-ranging elephants live. Our stories of deadly viral-elephant-human becomings remind us...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 1–18.
Published: 01 July 2023
... certified tea, will help to increase or at least maintain profit rates that would otherwise be steadily declining along with yields. 24 India is already the largest producer of organic tea in the world. 25 The three plantations that I introduce in this article present a cross-section...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2024
... but for a reason “far more logistical, relating back to the British colonization of India and the expansion of the East India Trading Company.” 1 The British choice to dye their naval uniforms indigo was motivated in part by access but also because it is a very colorfast dye, “outclassing other colors...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 300–308.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of Space .” Environmental History 10 , no. 2 ( 2005 ): 239 – 68 . Aveni Anthony . Conversing with Planets: How Science and Myth Invented the Cosmos . New York : Times Books , 1992 . Bagla Pallava , and Menon Subhadra . Reaching for the Stars: India’s Journey to Mars...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 441–459.
Published: 01 July 2024
... spaces of ambivalence, and to make possible new modes of relation: the satirical short film Finding Beauty in Garbage , 9 which employs sarcasm to criticize the practice of littering in the city of Dibrugarh in India, and the American mockumentary The Majestic Plastic Bag , 10 an environmental...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 422–425.
Published: 01 July 2024
... as India, the visibility of industrial smoke and dust came to signal progress. 3 Yet according to recent research presented in the Lancet Planetary Health , old and new forms of pollution—airborne fine particle pollution, together with lead and chemical poisoning of land and water—have become...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 219–232.
Published: 01 March 2022
... change activists are part of a global movement. Deborah Adegbile from Lagos, Nigeria; Ayakha Melithafa from Cape Town, South Africa; Greta Thunberg from Stockholm, Sweden; Alexandria Villaseñor from New York City; and Ridhima Pandey from Haridwar, India; are just a few of the engaged activists who...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 2–7.
Published: 01 November 2023
... writes, “decisively not-one.” 13 This not-oneness means ongoing “jostling” of de-, post-, and anticolonial thought. 14 Decolonial environments take many forms. Consider, for instance, India’s Zero-Budget Natural Farming initiative. This is one of the largest peasant movements in the world. It takes...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 152–173.
Published: 01 May 2019
... that were made of it thrown into a blazing fire, . . . and after the stains were burnt out, come forth from the flames whiter and cleaner than they could possibly have been rendered by the aid of water.” 10 Though he mistakenly identifies the provenance of the material as growing “in the deserts of India...
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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 (1): 109–127.
Published: 01 March 2023
...” in which “anything China, India, South Korea, Russia (and other states which the West might distrust such as Iran and Belarus) do in relation to Antarctica, particularly if it involves mention of the word ‘resources,’ is cast as intrinsically worrying.” 72 Essentialist stereotypes of Chinese tourists...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 807–825.
Published: 01 November 2024
... Tibetan medical schools catering to students globally (Shang Shung Institute, Tibetan Medicine Education Center, and Sowa Rigpa Institute), as well as by Men-Tsee-Khang doctors in India and Tibetan practitioners operating in North America. Even though different textual sources and beings were emphasized...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 159–165.
Published: 01 May 2015
... and Loss at the Edge of Extinction . New York : Columbia University Press , 2014 . Wilson Kalpana . “ The ‘New’ Global Population Control Policies: Fueling India's Sterilization Atrocities .” Different Takes Winter 2015 , http://popdev.hampshire.edu/projects/dt/87 . 1 Intra...