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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 8–29.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Aike P. Rots; Nhung Lu Rots Abstract Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the category animism has seen a remarkable resurgence in Western scholarship, capturing the interest of many anthropologists, scholars of religion, and philosophers. Some authors have argued that animism can provide...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 93–109.
Published: 01 May 2013
... animist. As I understand her term, she was making connections with animism as a worldview, but rather than mimic or appropriate indigenous animisms she was developing a foundation that could be argued from within western philosophy. Her beautiful definition of philosophical animism is that it “opens...
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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...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 641–660.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Marianna Szczygielska Abstract Contemporary zoological gardens are hoping to delay the sixth mass extinction through captive breeding of endangered species. This article explores the dominant temporal orders invoked by managing animal sex in captivity in order to unfold unnatural histories...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 522–542.
Published: 01 November 2022
... on already existing entanglements of multiple species of animals in Los Angeles, using empirical data (conversations from the social media platform Nextdoor) to describe these entanglements according to a fourfold framework—spatial, emotional, behavioral, and political. Drawing on the political philosophy...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 624–642.
Published: 01 November 2024
...John Drew Abstract This analysis considers how education positioned at the intersections of literature and nature can help expose and confront the violence of animal agriculture. To do so, it extends from field research in London, Canada, with children who discursively and materially engaged...
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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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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 247–279.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Susanne Bauer; Nils Güttler; Martina Schlünder Abstract Focusing on a global hub of aviation, Frankfurt Airport, this essay examines encounters between animals and technology in airport operation. In order to understand how airport practices constantly negotiate the borders with local environments...
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in Encounters in Borderlands: Borderlining Animals and Technology at Frankfurt Airport
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 6. Stuffed animals at customs. Courtesy of the authors.
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 441–459.
Published: 01 July 2024
... the film’s visual side, which presents close-ups of pedestrians whose facial expressions highlight their dislike of the odor produced by the garbage. Other scenes reveal cows, birds, and other nonhuman animals scavenging through the trash heaps in search of food. Through these highly suggestive images...
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in Animals, Angelenos, and the Arbitrary: Analyzing Human-Wildlife Entanglement in Los Angeles
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 1. Fourfold framework of human-animal entanglement linked to arbitrary domination.
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in Encounters in Borderlands: Borderlining Animals and Technology at Frankfurt Airport
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 5. Animal handling at Frankfurt Airport, undated. Courtesy of the Fraport Archiv.
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Published: 01 May 2014
Figure 9 The scenery scrolls past iconic land markers, animals and scenery.
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in Encounters in Borderlands: Borderlining Animals and Technology at Frankfurt Airport
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 8. Animal tool kit at the fire department of Frankfurt Airport. Courtesy of the authors.
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 110–128.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Andrew McCumber; Patrick Neil Dryden Abstract Archaeology and anthropology treat the presence of animals in mythology and folklore as axiomatically about a culture’s ideas of nature. Sociology often assumes modernity no longer has such myths, but animal imagery abounds. In this article, the authors...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 181–200.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Franziska Strack Abstract This article engages with French filmmaker Jean Painlevé’s experimental shorts on the physiognomy and behavior of marine animals. The article argues that Painlevé’s films establish a corporeal and nonlinguistic mode of interspecies communication that draws upon...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 103–121.
Published: 01 May 2012
... intervention in Việt Nam to explore how avian influenza threats challenge long-held understandings of animals' place in the environment and society. In this intervention, poultry farmers collaborated with health workers to illustrate maps of avian flu risks in their communities. Participant-observation...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 71–88.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Julie Guthman Abstract A 2020 report published by the think tank RethinkX predicts the “second domestication of plants and animals, the disruption of the cow, and the collapse of industrial livestock farming” by 2035. Although typical of promissory discourses about the future of food, the report...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 169–190.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... Some inhuman animals seek out and uncover our wastes. These ‘trash animals' choke on, eat, defecate, are contaminated with, play games with, have sex on, and otherwise live out their lives on and in our formal and informal dumpsites. In southern Canada's sanitary landfills, waste management typically...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 171–186.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., which alternate with a minimalist interface: a grid populated with dots signifying other animals and plants living in Banff. This essay argues that Bear 71 uses two strategies to reframe the data-driven discourse of wildlife management. First, the anthropomorphized narrative of Bear 71 reframes wildlife...
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