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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 372–390.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Kent Linthicum; Mikaela Relford; Julia C. Johnson Abstract Native American authors in the first half of the nineteenth century—the dawn of the Anthropocene in some accounts—were witness to the rapid expansion of settler-colonialism powered by new ideologies of energy and fueled by fossil capitalism...
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Damned Ecologies: Environmental Demonology and Apocalyptic Normativization in American Spiritual Warfare
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 543–563.
Published: 01 November 2022
...S. Jonathon O’Donnell Abstract This article uses a queer ecocritical methodology to analyze constructions of the environment and subjectivity in American spiritual warfare demonologies (discourses about the reality and activity of demons) published in 2008–18. There has been a surge in critical...
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Oil as Solution to the Problems of Oil: The American Petroleum Institute and the Petromodern Paradox
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 45–65.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Program that were distributed by the American Petroleum Institute (API), the trade organization that promotes the US oil industry. It first describes the evolution of support for and opposition to the oil industry as well as that of the ideas of freedom that the industry sought to mobilize to gain public...
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in Multicultural Wilderness: Immigrants, African Americans, and Industrial Workers in the Forest Preserves and Dunes of Jazz-Age Chicago
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 4. African American Boy Scouts in Chicago, 1942. Library of Congress. LC-USW3-000123-D, courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 51–87.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Figure 4. African American Boy Scouts in Chicago, 1942. Library of Congress. LC-USW3-000123-D, courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. ...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 117–146.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Daegan Miller Abstract In the fall of 1846, the first of 3,000 African American settlers set foot on their 40-acre plots in the Great Northern Wilderness of New York State, a place we now call the “forever wild” wilderness of the Adirondack State Park. These black settlers were the initial wave...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 268–279.
Published: 01 March 2025
... This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). 37. Fornaro and Ludueña, “Indigenous Women Lead Battle.” 38. For an example of another antiextractivist Latin American film which can be considered in similar terms, and whose website...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 19–39.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of global developmentalism, the affects of American political cultures, the formation of the electric power “grid,” and the effects of environmental awareness. In the flood, a gray mesh of pasts spilled out: present. Atemporal and lacking in significance, coal ash is a material remainder forgotten, kept...
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Disjointed Times in “Climate-Smart” Amazonia
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 321–340.
Published: 01 July 2022
... with Political Economy in the Modern Brazilian Amazon .” Journal of Latin American Studies 25 , no. 2 ( 1993 ): 331 – 49 . CONAB (Compania Nacional de Abastecimiento) . Portal de informações agropecuárias . https://portaldeinformacoes.conab.gov.br/safra-serie-historica-graos.html (accessed July...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 359–377.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Leah V. Aronowsky Abstract This article uses the history of an unrealized technology to rethink conventional accounts of American spaceflight that cast the space cabin as the ultimate expression of human’s capacity to technologically master their environments. Drawing on archival and published...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 223–234.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Gianfranco Selgas; Manuel Silva-Ferrer Abstract How might a Latin American cultural critique of energy reconceive the relevance of cultural history and aesthetics considering the energy regimes that underwrite it? This special section explores various modes of examining, looking...
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Becoming Indigenous Again: The Native Informant and Settler Logic in Richard Powers’s Overstory
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 303–320.
Published: 01 July 2022
... authenticity to existing beliefs. Since Indigenous groups are often associated with primordial nature in the hemispherically American context, there is a long tradition of settler colonial societies appropriating the figure of the Native to claim authentic land rights or establish an identity distinct from...
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in “Bringing Humanity Full Circle Back into the Sea”: Homo aquaticus , Evolution, and the Ocean
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Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 3. A Polynesian pearl diver working underwater on a coral reef in Tongareva, French Polynesia. Photo is part of the Pearl Divers Group diorama in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life, American Museum of Natural History Library, Image # ptc-459.
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in Generating Infrastructural Invisibility: Insulation, Interconnection, and Avian Excrement in the Southern California Power Grid
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Published: 01 May 2015
Figure 5. Schematic diagram of the Big Creek system circa 1924. Source: Harold Michener, “Description of System and Operating Experiences,” Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers 43 (1924): 1222-1225, on 1223. Reprinted with permission of the Institute of Electrical
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Theorizing the Gay Frog
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 661–679.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Hannah Boast Abstract The gay frog has taken on a surprisingly prominent role in contemporary environmental culture. Primarily associated with American shock jock Alex Jones and the so-called alt-right, fears of frogs being turned gay by hormones in water have nevertheless entered the mainstream...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 438–456.
Published: 01 July 2022
... the necessity of these crossings, the kinship and well-being that movement sustains? The essay explores these questions through a series of meditations on the monarch butterfly, a creature that has become in recent years the symbol of a more expansive vision of North American belonging. Anand Pandian describes...
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Art for a Future Planet: Beyond Apocalypse
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 159–180.
Published: 01 May 2021
... the anthropocentrism that often motivates the representation of climate change as reversible (humans save the planet) or, indeed, as irreversible (humans destroy the planet). Drawing on the work of Andreas Weber and several Latin American scholars, including Eduardo Gudynas and Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar, the author...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 371–384.
Published: 01 July 2024
... Backster, an American researcher who claimed he could demonstrate that plants could read people’s minds and that measurements of his plants’ emotional responses to the randomized death of brine shrimp revealed empathetic connections “even on the lower levels of life.” Although this research appears risible...
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The Many Care Worlds a Butterfly Crosses
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 826–841.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Columba González-Duarte Abstract This article explores the theme of heroes and villains in relation to the conservation of the North American monarch butterfly. The monarch butterfly is a migratory insect that performs an annual four-thousand-kilometer journey across Canada, the United States...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 441–459.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of critical hope that scholars claim are necessary in moving beyond the debilitating registers of apocalyptic rhetoric and crisis discourse. By comparing two short films—the Indian satire Finding Beauty in Garbage , and the American mockumentary The Majestic Plastic Bag —the article examines the affordance...
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