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in Rivers and Reconciliation: Elaborating the Socioecological Memory of War through Science and Arts-Based Practices
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 March 2023
Figure 4. A page of a pop-up book created by students at the Rural Educative Institute, Las Perlas, Puerto Guzmán, November 2018. Photograph by the author.
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in Interspecies Affection and Military Aims: Was There a Totalitarian Dog?
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2018
Figure 2. Last pages of the 1932 picture book Should There Be War . Scan courtesy of the Russian Digital Children’s Library, arch.rgdb.ru
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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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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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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 280–299.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... The rhetorical figure is characteristic of the environmental humanities, for it invokes the value of cultural and literary treasures to reinforce the importance of biological diversity. This article traces the origins of the metaphor to related figures of The Book of Life and to the figure of genetic information...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 475–491.
Published: 01 November 2020
... when the urgency of climate change seems to elevate the appeal to/of numbers? What role has and should kinship play in understanding “population”? Through a discussion of three recent books—Adele Clarke and Donna Haraway’s edited collection Making Kin Not Population , Michelle Murphy’s...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 459–469.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Peter Johnson Abstract Michel Serres’s philosophy is scantly known outside France. In this review essay the author takes up three books that Serres published late on in his life and that engage in different ways with the environmental emergency. These short eminently readable books appeal to a wide...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 101–116.
Published: 01 May 2013
... in crucial ways and negotiates a relationship between technical science and public deliberation. Situated in rhetorical analysis, the author takes a comparative approach towards the use of uncertainty and scientific ethos in the Silent Spring controversy. Drawing from Carson's published book, and from...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 371–384.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Randy Laist Abstract The Secret Life of Plants , a 1973 book that was developed into a 1979 documentary film, reports on a flurry of parapsychological research involving attempts to communicate with plants using electrodes, lie detectors, and psychic powers. The book highlights the work of Cleve...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 217–232.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Wolfgang Struck Abstract While, within the last decades, the atlas has lost its dominance as a medium of spatial representation to digital media, it has recently attracted a significant aesthetic interest. Artists and writers have created books that are explicitly or implicitly linked to the atlas...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 129–148.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of their works. Wong encoded lyrics from the song “It’s a Small World After All” within the DNA of a bacterium. Similarly, Kac employs encipherment in Genesis , a project aiming to demonstrate that “biological processes are now writerly.” In the same way, Bök’s The Xenotext: Book 1 , published in 2015, involved...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 57–77.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Amanda Hagood Abstract Recent scholarship on the work of the great nature writer, Rachel Carson, posits that her landmark book, Silent Spring (1962)—often credited with igniting the modern environmental movement—is best understood in the context of her earlier, extraordinarily popular publications...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 191–202.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Jennifer Hamilton Abstract This is an experimental review essay responding to Michael Marder's Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013). The essay departs from the ordinary structure of comparing three books on a similar theme. Instead three...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 21–44.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Heather Houser Abstract Petrochemical America , an art book and atlas cocreated by photographer Richard Misrach and landscape architect Kate Orff, is a rejoinder to commonplaces about oil’s invisibility and evasion of representation. The book’s visualizations produce a narrative atlas that depicts...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 110–128.
Published: 01 March 2022
... instruction. Modern bestiaries (including alphabet books, sports teams, and car names, among others) generate a holistic worldview that marries a deep love of animals and “nature” to a fundamentally anti-ecological cosmology. The authors examine a particular modern bestiary—the menagerie of gummi animals...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 202–215.
Published: 01 March 2022
... , and Zakiyyah Iman Jackson’s Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World . As these books make clear, wide-ranging possibilities can emerge when one reads Blackness and animals together. Each author finds ways of reexamining the human-animal divide, of calling into question other labels...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 162–180.
Published: 01 July 2023
... an attempt to rethink the commons concept beyond its regulating logics of liberal humanism, a radical reconsideration of the kinds of politics it should and might still enable beyond the lure of progressive reason. Turning to a reading of Alexis Wright’s 2013 novel The Swan Book , the article argues...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 111–127.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of anthropocentricism and sustainability, some contemporary texts of the ethical food movement evidence a reluctant embrace of omnivorous eating, while simultaneously indicating a gendered, if ironic, machismo at odds with the principles of ethical eating. An analysis of the rhetoric of three popular nonfiction books...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 203–216.
Published: 01 May 2014
... that is the focus of the narrative and gives the book its title. Timothy Morton has argued that because we live in the Anthropocene we can no longer understand history as exclusively human. Pendell's “Chronicle of the Collapse” suggests that the same is true for storytelling, offering readers the story...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 May 2013
... essays and books. Foregrounding the voices of grassroots environmentalists as well as the public-relations campaigns of multinational agribusiness trade groups, materials collected in the special collections of Iowa State University, the article resituates Smiley's prizewinning novel and offers...
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