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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 162–181.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... Drawing on new materialism and multispecies studies, the article argues that these two picture books exemplify the possibilities inherent in children’s literature of imaging encounters with multispecies communities and apprehending the dynamic agencies of the material world. With reference to the real...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 93–112.
Published: 01 May 2021
... wondered, How to account for plants and their agency? What is evidence of vegetal politics? What is a multispecies ethnographer doing when decentering the human in relation to garden plants, beyond what is un- done ontologically? This article situates itself in the plant turn and proposes a methodology...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 284–302.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Aaron Bradshaw Abstract The emergence of Ideonella sakaiensis , a microorganism with the capacity to metabolize the widely used plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET), raises important questions about how human and nonhuman agency are related in responding to pressing environmental issues...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 November 2016
... more alive. This essay suggests that the development of sentience in the Phanerozoic eon exerted an emergent, autonomous influence on the interaction of minerals and life. Conscious human agency and its effects on planetary transformation are therefore the culmination of a very long process. However...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 103–130.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Etienne Benson Abstract The fact that industrial infrastructures are embedded in complex environments animated by unexpected agencies is often invisible to their users—at least those who live in rich, industrialized societies with reliable systems for distributing water, power, and other goods...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 29–48.
Published: 01 March 2022
... with ecology and embracing their inherent impurities. This classic cli-fi film provides an important touchstone for a future in which dominant petro-masculine approaches to pelagic place are found to be drowned, dead ends. This article amplifies how mutant corporeal formations and elemental agencies...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 44–63.
Published: 01 March 2023
... apply dowsing as a technique for communicating across human and more-than-human divides through ethical inquiries that tend to the agency and seek the consent of Earth Others in matters concerning land use. This research suggests that dowsing offers a reciprocal and dialogic strategy for collaborating...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 19–38.
Published: 01 July 2023
...-living pigs’ shifting agency and identity. Introduced pigs were modern English breeds, domesticates in nascent capitalist stages of unmaking. Yet, these animals were made anew in Australia, living largely unmediated and demonstrating remarkable adaptability to novel environments. This article analyzes...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 52–71.
Published: 01 May 2019
... and spatial practices, such as marches across contested zones and ritual processions to sacred sites. Itineraries of conflict enact a semiotic and political resistance to resource grabs conducted by state agencies and powerful corporations, exemplified by the usurpation of tribal lands rich in iron ore, coal...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 27–51.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Teena Gabrielson Abstract This article examines the visual politics at work in website photographs depicting environmental justice issues in the United States. Based on roughly 580 web-published photos collected from environmental justice organizations, the Environmental Protection Agency...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 280–301.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and environmental discourse, the project attempts to analyze the material flows integral to naturecultures through particular places, perspectives, and agencies. © 2019 John Brannigan, Frances Ryfield, Tasman Crowe, and David Cabana 2019 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 324–350.
Published: 01 November 2019
... to nonhuman agency through a project of human control of all environmental variables. Theories of heterotopias as counter-spaces facilitate exploration of “displacement” as a metaphor that accounts for both the attempted eviction of alternative environmental practices and the works’ ongoing strategies...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 123–140.
Published: 01 May 2012
... placed affect at the very centre of contemporary narratives that call for pro-environmental beliefs and behaviours. A critical public-feelings framework is used to explore these issues and trace their passage from the private and intimate, where they risk remaining denuded of agency, and into the public...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 217–232.
Published: 01 May 2014
... Salgado's Genesis (2013), a monumental collection of photographs that promises a journey “to the beginnings of our planet,” confronting the viewer with the dimension of geological time into which human agency has expanded. Due to the indexicality of photography, the Genesis -project has to approach deep...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 131–157.
Published: 01 May 2015
... ecocriticism and from affect theory—particularly Ben Anderson's “affective atmospheres,” Sianne Ngai's “tone,” and Sara Ahmed's characterization of affect as “sticky”—and develop the notion of affective agency to describe the impacts generated by environments and objects at this national memory site. I assess...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 133–150.
Published: 01 May 2016
... are inextricably enmeshed. What comes of all this thinking is a common account of mutual multispecies vulnerabilities and of collective agencies that recasts the dominant tales of a singular Anthropocene and the conventional human-centred inheritances of a rural Australian place. Copyright: © Instone and Taylor...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 108–128.
Published: 01 May 2017
... the way we think about production. Second, it allows for the possibility of agency on the part of farmed animals that includes more than just resistance, disruption, or death. This essay concludes with an ethnographic description of the lives of broiler chickens on a hobby farm in rural Michigan, asking...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 132–166.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Elizabeth DeLoughrey; Tatiana Flores Abstract Recent scholarship in the blue humanities, or critical ocean studies, has turned to the mutable relationship between human bodies and the ocean, shifting from depictions of a seascape across which human bodies attain agency to considering the experience...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 136–158.
Published: 01 May 2021
... The Republic of Exit 43 , developed after the author’s discovery that the industrial landfill site she grew up alongside in New York had been classified by the US Environmental Protection Agency as requiring federal intervention. Tracing Scappettone’s poetic geographies from the “corporate dump” of Syosset...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 8–29.
Published: 01 November 2023
... a model for a new environmental ethics that acknowledges more-than-human agencies and interdependencies. However, the question remains as to how so-called animist ontologies can transform not only individual moralities, but also the extractivist economic-political structures underlying the current crisis...
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