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Agency and Multispecies Communities in Picture Books: The Snail and the Whale and The Secret of Black Rock
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 162–181.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Melanie Duckworth Abstract This article discusses two children’s picture books, The Snail and the Whale (2003), written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler, and The Secret of Black Rock (2017) by Joe Todd-Stanton, as vibrant and fantastic engagements with multispecies worlds...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 295–309.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of fascination for folklorists, cryptozoologists, and the general public alike, in East Anglia stories abound of a huge, devilish hound, with saucer-shaped eyes and followed by the demonic stench of Sulphur: Black Shuck. This ethnographic description, of pursuit by—rather than of—footprints in the mud, whispered...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 226–240.
Published: 01 May 2018
... 2018 Christine Hansen 2018 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). bushfire wildfire Aboriginal burning Black Saturday mountain ash settler culture Australians are by and large a fire-hardened people, particularly...
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in Images of Pollution and the Pollution of Images: Postindustrial Landscapes on and through Film
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 March 2025
Figure 5. Still from Alexandra Navratil, Silbersee (2015). Video, black and white, sound, 11:11 min. © the artist.
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in I Heard the Old Fellas Play: Sustaining the Ecology of Gumleaf Sounds in Koori Community Culture and Beyond
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 March 2025
Figure 4. Uncle Ossie surveys the aftermath of Black Summer south of Eden, 2020. Image by Robin Ryan.
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in “Skin of the Earth”: On Soil, Collaboration, and Temporality after Fukushima
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 July 2023
Figure 2. Temporary storage facility in Iitate for black bags of contaminated soil, 2017. Photograph by the author.
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Published: 01 May 2012
Figure 9 Black Bellied Whistling Ducks, or Piches, resting on a floating island of water hyacinth in Palo Verde National Park (Photograph: CIENTEC, available under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license).
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in Fractal Eaarth: Visualizing the Global Environment in the Anthropocene
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2014
Figure 1 The cover of McKibben's 2010 Eaarth . Image courtesy of Black Inc. Books, Victoria ( http://www.blackincbooks.com/books/eaarth ).
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Published: 01 May 2018
Figure 1. Metal puddle formerly a lawn mower, in the wake of the Black Saturday fires. April 2009. Photo by author
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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 (2024) 16 (1): 19–35.
Published: 01 March 2024
... the Black Pacific. For Teresia Teaiwa, the bikini swimsuit thus marks a “supreme ambivalence in Western thought,” a simultaneous “celebration and a forgetting of nuclear power that strategically and materially . . . erases the living history of Pacific Islanders,” and one that allows white women to get full...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 23–44.
Published: 01 March 2025
... in point. Its name means “black gold,” and it was once named Vila Rica, “rich city.” 37. Bethônico drew directly from Cordeiro, “ Litotoponímia Mineira .” 36. Gómez-Barris, Extractive Zone , xviii. 35. The work was acquired in 2019 by the Pinacoteca de São Paulo. For photographs...
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Cotton, Whiteness, and Other Poisons
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 499–521.
Published: 01 November 2022
... and enabled by anti-Blackness, which sanctioned a systematic hostility to life that encoded environmental violence in plantation landscapes from the seed to the root. Agrotechnological notions of scientific progress and development conceived places, plants, and Black people as interchangeable parts. Tracing...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 58–78.
Published: 01 March 2024
... to South Florida. A close reading of archives of botanical gardens, plant nurseries, and community organizations shows that Miami plant infrastructure was created jointly by these elite political/scientific networks and by vernacular, informal networks of Black labor migration and horticultural know-how...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 182–201.
Published: 01 March 2022
... is problematic because of its inability to recognize other conceptualizations of the Earth held by Indigenous and Black peoples in the Americas and the Caribbean. As a case in point, the author critically engages with a failed attempt to accommodate Black enslaved experiences into a wilderness perspective made...
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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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Wild Faces
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 154–169.
Published: 01 March 2025
..., scent marks, posture, or gesture, “the face” may be dispersed more generally over the body. In a reading of several face-to-face encounters in Sid Marty’s books Switchbacks: True Stories from the Canadian Rockies and The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek , this article analyzes the specific differences...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 May 2020
... earth mining, the slow violence of black lung disease, the factory work, the digital consumption practices—that have propelled and intensified the country’s stupendous development as well as its ecological challenges. We find new work on eco-media and media materialism most productive, as it sheds light...
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A Commons beyond the Human
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 162–180.
Published: 01 July 2023
... that a commons beyond the human gathers in the text through the more-than-human existence engendered between a young Aboriginal girl, Oblivia, and a flock of black swans. The novel presents neither the disavowal of the inherited knowledges of the commons nor a concrete policy to herald its appearance...
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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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