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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 202–215.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Calista McRae Abstract This review essay explores three recent academic studies situated at the intersection of Black studies and animal studies: Joshua Bennett’s Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man , Bénédicte Boisseron’s Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question...
View articletitled, “The Great Chain of Being Come Undone”: Linking Blackness and <span class="search-highlight">Animal</span> <span class="search-highlight">Studies</span>
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 441–459.
Published: 01 July 2024
... this contention, as scholars have drawn attention to the productive potential of a number of comedic genres and strategies, including satire, irony, parody, humorous environmental writing, and even stand-up comedy. 6 These critical studies have documented how comedic modes of representation can serve to engage...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 211–229.
Published: 01 March 2024
... an ethical reflexivity in field technicians operating well outside of academic environmental humanities circles. Drawing on multispecies studies’ (and its animal studies antecedents’) focus on environmental ethics, as well as the scant but growing attention to “unloved others” like invertebrates, squished...
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Uncharismatic Invasives
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 29–52.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of the animals they seek to manage. I do so through a case study of Oregon's efforts to manage the invasive species that are rafting across the Pacific attached to tsunami debris in the wake of the Japanese tsunami of 2011. Focusing on the state's response to a dock that washed ashore on Agate Beach with various...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 May 2016
... studies aims to open up new spaces for interdisciplinary and collaborative research. While both “the animal” and “the environment” have in recent decades been the subject of new forms of scholarly inquiry in the humanities and social sciences, multispecies studies promises something a little bit different...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 181–200.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Painlevé’s films into conversation with Massumi’s animal politics, Deleuze and Guattari’s idea of becoming-animal, and neuroscientific research. It thus shows how the cinematic medium can make palpable debates in environmental studies and political theory and installs communication as an interspecies...
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The Phenomenology of Animal Life
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 125–148.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Dominique Lestel; Jeffrey Bussolini; Matthew Chrulew Abstract This paper presents a bi-constructivist approach to the study of animal life, which is opposed to the realist-Cartesian paradigm in which most ethology operates. The method is elaborated through the examples of a knot-tying orangutan...
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Military Cetology
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 196–214.
Published: 01 November 2016
... and signals aimed for classificatory and sorting schemes that encompassed every sound in the ocean, echolocation positioned cetaceans as “special” study cases. It directly inspired the notion that cetaceans were complex animals capable of hearing the texture and composition of objects. As elements...
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Agency and Multispecies Communities in Picture Books: The Snail and the Whale and The Secret of Black Rock
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 162–181.
Published: 01 March 2022
... marine animals and environments alluded to by the books, it addresses the limitations and opportunities of anthropomorphism, and the significance of the concept of agency in the environmental humanities and children’s literature studies. It argues that the gleeful rhymes of The Snail and the Whale...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 103–130.
Published: 01 May 2015
... to persist. 64 It is in this sense that infrastructures can be said to be animate: their solidity and durability are the products of flexibility and adaptability. In light of this paradoxically animate inanimacy, studies of durability and stabilization are a necessary complement to the studies of surprise...
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View articletitled, Generating Infrastructural Invisibility: Insulation, Interconnection, and Avian Excrement in the Southern California Power Grid
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 37–56.
Published: 01 May 2016
... stereotypes into the domain of animals and limited the scope of the scientific imagination. DNA test kits enabled us to determine that the frogs used in our study were not carrying the pathogenic chytrid fungus. Getting past stigma attached to particular species and locales, we found that parasites...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 65–87.
Published: 01 March 2025
... disciplines since the late nineteenth century. It concludes that debates about the relation between human and animal musics have always reinforced the separation that today they seek to overcome, as this separation is itself rooted in the history of the study of music in nature. The article demonstrates...
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Chemosociality in Multispecies Worlds: Endangered Frogs and Toxic Possibilities in Sydney
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 23–50.
Published: 01 May 2020
... animals whose altered lifeways are now dependent on human-produced toxins? Drawing inspiration from studies of human social worlds, one might characterize the world of green and golden bell frogs as an arena of shared discourse—where frogs sing to one another in choruses—and a space of social action...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 20–39.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., see Oltermann, “Human-Animal Studies.” 2. Hayek, Road to Serfdom , 127. 3. Gal, “Language Ideologies Compared.” 4. Hayek, Road to Serfdom , 171. 5. Haraway, When Species Meet ; Kirksey and Helmreich, “Emergence of Multispecies Ethnography.” 6. Tsing, “Unruly Edges...
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Unmaking the Feral: The Shifting Relationship between Domestic-Wild Pigs and Settler Australians
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 19–38.
Published: 01 July 2023
...” and viewed as a seed disperser for some native trees. 91 Daniel Natusch and colleagues’ ecological study on feral pig rooting has shown that these animals can disrupt the habits of native birds but also create niches for native species to thrive in new ways. 92 And my ongoing research on recreational...
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On Auks and Awkwardness
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 195–205.
Published: 01 May 2014
... through which we might specify and explore creatures and modes of multispecies relations. As adjective and adverb it has at least two important valences for animal studies and the environmental humanities that I will explore in this short commentary. I open with some general observations before proffering...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 113–123.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., Governing Farm Animal Welfare in the European Food Sector,” in Agricultural Governance: Globalization and the New Politics of Regulation, ed. V. Higgins and G, Lawrence (Oxford, UK, Routledge, 2005), 110-125. 35 Haraway, When Species Meet. 34 The Animal Studies Group, Killing Animals...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 301–322.
Published: 01 November 2021
... BY-NC-ND 4.0). animal studies invasive species cultural history environmental history narrative studies On March 6, 1890, a wealthy socialite named Eugene Schieffelin released one hundred common starlings ( Sturnus vulgaris ) into Central Park in New York City. The release was part...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 351–372.
Published: 01 November 2019
... irrationally in his eyes) attached to los animalitos . I mentioned the new field of animal studies and told him about some of the classes I had been teaching on interspecies relations. To my surprise he was fascinated by the idea of an interdisciplinary field in animal studies. He was thrilled, in fact...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 113–135.
Published: 01 May 2021
... and phenomenological descriptions of bird behavior. As discussed in detail in the concluding section, a robust literature exists on embodied, relational epistemologies and ontologies between humans and nonhuman nature—in environmental humanities, animal studies, STS, and the history and philosophy of science...
View articletitled, Bird Banding and the Environmental Humanities: Institutions, Intersubjectivities, and the Phenomenological Method of Margaret Morse Nice
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