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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 187–212.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., and becoming as response-ability. © 2018 Manuel Tironi, Myra J. Hird, Cristián Simonetti, Peter Forman, and Nathaniel Freiburger 2018 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). inorganic life Anthropocene slow violence response...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 November 2021
... capacity into labor for killing. Such recasting yields what the author calls the “nonencounter value” within the scientific remaking of mosquitoes, their becoming and being . 74. Dupé, “Transformer Pour Controlêr” ; Kirksey, “The CRISPR Hack” ; Amarillo, “Aegypti.” For an overview...
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Becoming Mutant: Metamorphoses for a Waterworld
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 29–48.
Published: 01 March 2022
...L. D. Mattson; Jeremy Gordon Abstract Reimagining human-nature relationships in the climate change era conjures mutants, creatures from the deep that help surface modes of becoming for a drenched world of rising tides, plastic oceans, and soaked cities. Re-imaging deep, embodied relations...
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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
..., and The Overstory has previously been criticized for being “poisoned by an uninspired lack of racial representation.” 7 Given that an underlying message of the novel is that its settler characters need to “become natives,” 8 the absence of any major Indigenous character is particularly striking. In a 502...
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Earth Becomes World?: Scientific Objects, Nonmodern Worlds, and the Metaphysics of the Anthropocene
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 64–86.
Published: 01 March 2023
... must be thought anew. Be that is it may, if one takes seriously that the Anthropocene imposes a new world that beheads the sovereignty of modern science, it becomes impossible to ignore the question “What role can science still play in the Anthropocene?” It is this pertinent question that Hamilton...
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Becoming-with Donkeyness: A Research-Creation
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 215–231.
Published: 01 July 2023
... fifteen years. In walking through the paths paved by the donkeys Dondolo and Giorgiana, I was slowly understanding other-than-human relations in the biome. I was becoming-with donkeys in their becoming-with land. Through my experimental aesthetic intervention in mediating the donkeys’ becoming-with land...
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Minding the Gaps: How Humanists, Climate Scientists, and Communities Can Become Collaborating Storytellers
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 83–103.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and the public—a divide widened by the differing languages and epistemologies that separate researchers from the broader community. 1 To help bridge this divide, scientists have become interested in storytelling to connect research findings with lived experience. They often ask, How can we tell a better story...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 277–281.
Published: 01 May 2014
... or transformed. Figure 1 Sean and Michael McQuilken becoming-lightning at Moro Rock, California (1975). Photograph © Michael McQuilken Figure 1. Sean and Michael McQuilken becoming-lightning at Moro Rock, California (1975). Photograph © Michael McQuilken This photograph of two brothers...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 273–294.
Published: 01 May 2018
... place opens a future that is other than the past or present. Events, we might say, are temporizing : they provide or give the experience of passing time. As Jacques Derrida intones: “What there is to give, uniquely, would be called time .” 1 In this way, time—and the processes of becoming...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 129–149.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., as a condition of creativity, open up new modes of receptivity and responsiveness to species extinctions? This essay turns to philosophies of becoming and to recent research in the biological sciences to explore this possibility. I suggest that attending to the heterogeneity of experience alerts us to more...
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 3. Soilkin exercise #3: Become a stone observing itself (2020). Fluxus-inspired instructions as meme, dimensions and media variable. In reference to Tomás Saraceno’s Aerocene Project , 2015, and Julius Schoppe’s Margrave Stone of Fürstenwalde, 1827.
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Figure 1 Sean and Michael McQuilken becoming-lightning at Moro Rock, California (1975). Photograph © Michael McQuilken
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 145–158.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Jerome Whitington; Zeynep Oguz Abstract What conditions of possibility have emerged for learning to live on a new earth? This special section builds on scholarship in the environmental humanities, critical Black studies, and geophilosophy to explore how emergent ways of becoming human are forged...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 168–186.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Dominic O’Key Abstract This essay argues that the concept of extinction, polysemous if not overdetermined, is becoming an emergent keyword of contemporary public life as it faces the climate crisis. To make this argument the essay critically considers the ways in which extinction is currently being...
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Blue Humanities and the Color of Colonialism
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Susanne Ferwerda Abstract The cultural study of water has seen a prismatic shift toward the color blue. This is often articulated as a move away from the terrestrial focus of green ecologies and environmentalism, toward blue aquatic inquiries. What happens when green becomes blue and the blue...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 125–148.
Published: 01 May 2014
... and ‘nice’ version of coexistence. But, dealing with composting, it becomes clear that relations with the environment are never so neat and clean. What are, then, the modes of being together with the ‘dirty’ side of the ‘green’? What practices emerge at the mundane interstices of the ‘big picture...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 149–170.
Published: 01 May 2014
... to be drawn are less about solving bee decline and more about how becoming less uncomfortable with vulnerability and seeking to put ourselves at risk to others becomes an ethical practice. The example of these alternative beekeepers suggests that we might learn to accept more generously the risks...
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Killing in More-Than-Human Spaces: Pasteurisation, Fungi, and the Metabolic Lives of Wine
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 171–194.
Published: 01 May 2014
... both protects and spoils wine, reconfiguring multiple human-nonhuman relationships in conflicting and sometimes economically costly ways. In so doing, it illustrates that in a more-than-human world killing becomes difficult to confine to a single unwanted organism or species. Killing instead becomes...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 181–203.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Alessandro Antonello; Mark Carey Abstract Ice cores from Antarctica, Greenland, and the high-mountain cryosphere have become essential sources of evidence on the climate dating back nearly 800,000 years. Earth scientists use ice cores to understand the chemical composition of the atmosphere, which...
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Microbial Geographies at the Extremes of Life
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 398–417.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Juan Francisco Salazar Abstract This article explores world-making processes through which extreme frontiers of life are made habitable. Examining how notions of life are enlarged, incorporated, and appropriated in complex geopolitical contexts, the article argues that microbial worlds are becoming...
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