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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 766–783.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Alice Rudge Abstract Oil palm plantations often produce figurations of heroism and villainy attributed to human and nonhuman actors. Yet these categories may mask the subtleties of local experiences. Indigenous Batek people in Malaysia highly value the autonomy of both plants and people...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 699–717.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Astrida Neimanis Abstract How do settler colonialism, control of women’s and differently gendered bodies, sex, industry, pollution—but also pleasure, love, care, desire, bodily autonomy, and survival—cleave together and apart in the inland wetland of Windermere Basin park? Starting...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 18–39.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., Darjeeling’s majority population of Indian-Nepalis, or Gorkhas, have struggled for subnational autonomy over the district and for the establishment of a separate Indian state of “Gorkhaland” there. In this article, I draw on ethnographic fieldwork conducted amid the Gorkhaland agitation in Darjeeling’s tea...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 419–437.
Published: 01 July 2022
... explore what care means in engagements with forests, whose vitality rests on human abilities to distance themselves from forest beings and negotiate necessary engagements in the pursuit of agricultural tasks. The unruly vitality of forests is associated with their autonomous nature. The idea of autonomy...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 195–214.
Published: 01 July 2023
... to be known and from which human-nonhuman relationships flow, is complex, and species can be defined in multiple ways. 63 Geographer Aurora Fredriksen considers how attempts to conserve native Scottish wildcat genes interrupt the wild autonomy of hybrid wildcats themselves, cats who are not concerned...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 141–154.
Published: 01 May 2012
... is a well-known fact—except when it comes to humans. Human exceptionalism blinds us. Science has inherited stories about human mastery from the great monotheistic religions. These stories fuel assumptions about human autonomy, and they direct questions to the human control of nature, on the one hand...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 181–200.
Published: 01 May 2021
... , 2000 . Massumi Brian . “ The Autonomy of Affect .” Cultural Critique , no. 31 ( 1995 ): 83 – 109 . Massumi Brian . “ Of Microperception and Micropolitics .” Inflexions: A Journal for Research-Creation , no. 3 ( 2009 ): 1 – 20 . Massumi Brian . What Animals Teach Us...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 499–521.
Published: 01 November 2022
... as both individually disposable and collectively indispensable to cotton’s production and profitability. As Black farmers and communities worked to build power and autonomy, postbellum white plantation owners and industrialists depended on technological fixes that undermined the possibilities for Black...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 87–108.
Published: 01 March 2023
... decide to invest its profits into nature conservation projects carried out by humans. 45 These examples, however, reduce the forest’s autonomy to what it can produce as a participant in a capitalist framework and ignores other speculations of what a forest is to itself. It also relies on lines of code...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 291–308.
Published: 01 July 2024
.... As with the interdependent independence of akaa that makes them simultaneously the essence of a person and a sign of the collectivity of relations that have brought them into being, it is the unique way that each person acts as both a receiver and giver of care that endows them with the relative autonomy that enables them...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 493–497.
Published: 01 November 2019
... on Earth. . . . The Anthropocene invites us to problematize the epic narrative of autonomy, recognizing with humility that our existence is a precarious ecological achievement.” At the same time, multiple modes of living and thinking that precarious achievement generate a diversity of “knowledges...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 697–708.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of the epidemiologist as a “culture hero” who navigates between past and present, bestiality (nature) and human sociality (culture), life and death, autonomy and self-limitation. 11 Here, heroism lies less in the individual’s traits than in their uncommon capacity to manage the relation between contrasting states...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 187–207.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of conservation. She calls for a more imaginative approach to extinction that increases autonomy for humans and nonhumans alike. She asks, “How are we to live and die in this present age of extinction, when colonial legacies determine who and what is in better position to survive?” 28 Indigenous...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 181–194.
Published: 01 July 2023
... these scholars have loudly accused each other over the past couple of years for being either too dualist or too monist, they all converge in their commitment to dialectic models and in that sense ultimately recognize both the interdependency of nature and culture and the respective autonomy of these categories...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 226–240.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., “Autonomy of Affect,” 86. 22. For two prominent examples of exhibitions, see “From the Fire Exhibition” and Coslovich, “Brush with Fire.” For accounts of the day, see Stanley, Black Saturday at Steels Creek . 23. See, e.g., Motor Car , 2009, Museums Victoria Collections...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 May 2012
... category for diverse imaginations of human autonomy and sovereignty”—“the question of human freedom [is today placed] under the cloud of the Anthropocene.” 7 The logic is inescapable: through taking the environment seriously, this pillar of western thought and value is currently being unsettled...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 239–244.
Published: 01 May 2016
... with nature. But no, it is only when you have both gained autonomy that you will both really appreciate and respect each other.” Sadhegi and Sami argue elsewhere in the essay that relationships teach us how to evolve from an emotional exoskeleton —a protective hard shell we use for survival...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 179–185.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Should be Punished for ‘Contempt of Business Model.’ ” Electronic Frontier Foundation . October 20 , 2018 . www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/its-repair-day-no-one-should-be-punished-contempt-business-model . Escobar Arturo . Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 296–320.
Published: 01 May 2020
... to place, and the competing geographical ambitions of conservation. In taking animal autonomy and individual well-being seriously, at the same time as we abandon human exceptionalism, we must also reckon with the dilemmas and contradictory claims that arise. 44 Whose autonomy and life-in-place matters...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 256–262.
Published: 01 November 2016
... present with creatures while also not flouting their autonomy. He has faith, therefore, that “something new can always emerge” (§80). Further, he believes that faith in God and the power of the Holy Spirit will enable humanity to overcome the web of evils in which it is caught up. Pope Francis offers...