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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 227–249.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Anna Krzywoszynska Abstract With soils increasingly seen as living ecosystems, the understanding of the relationship between soils and agricultural labor is changing. A shift from working the soil to working with the soil is hoped to deliver a true ecological modernization of capitalist agriculture...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 205–226.
Published: 01 May 2020
...) arguments about the production of abstract space, this article argues that Liebig’s assessment of nutrient extraction was essential to a broader midcentury reconsideration and reorganization of capitalist agricultural production, an example of what world ecologist Jason Moore calls an “organizational...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 108–128.
Published: 01 May 2017
... Finlay argues that “by 1960 [a] vision of ‘assembly-line’ hog production had become embedded into the infrastructure of America’s industrialized agriculture.” 24 When vitalities are exploited in ways that are endemic to capitalist production, this is what I suggest we call “metabolic labor...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 499–521.
Published: 01 November 2022
... agriculture leveraged industrial technologies and production against workers in ways that crushed freedom and resistance. 3 German chemist Justus von Liebig’s critique of soil depletion was central to Marx’s understanding of the destructive nature of capitalist agriculture. 4 Liebig’s idea that soil...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 41–58.
Published: 01 May 2016
... was not the result of its status as common property but rather “had to do with the pressures of capitalist agriculture upon coincident use-rights, together with the sheer political power of the landholding class.” 13 As Frow thus asserts, Hardin's parable more closely resembles the dynamics of market capitalism...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 1–18.
Published: 01 July 2023
... multispecies literature has paid less attention to what happens when these alternative ways of growing are intentionally implemented, for instance, when larger producers attempt to transition to a greener agricultural economy. The potentials of an “ecological modernization of capitalist agriculture...
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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 (2024) 16 (3): 725–745.
Published: 01 November 2024
...: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2015 . Van Dooren Thom . “ Banking Seed: Use and Value in the Conservation of Agricultural Diversity .” Science as Culture 18 , no. 4 ( 2009 ): 373 – 95 . Weismantel Mary . Food, Gender...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 71–88.
Published: 01 March 2022
... that was central to capitalist modernization of agriculture. 28 In contemplating agriculture’s role in the Anthropocene, Donna Haraway, building on the writing of Tsing and others, suggests that changes in the scale, rate/speed, synchronicity, and complexity of agriculture were so marked that their advent...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 321–340.
Published: 01 July 2022
... ecological problems can be managed by helping agribusiness shape the flows of water and nutrients on which industrial agriculture relies. 6 The idea is to expand capitalist operations so that they arrange matter and space across whole regions in ways that would make it possible not only to produce rural...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 746–765.
Published: 01 November 2024
... commodity production that prevails today. 57 Immanent to the government’s unbroken belief in the estate model is a “political economy of ignorance” that spreads myths about swidden agriculture to justify external control over land for large-scale capitalist exploitation, mainly of palm oil. 58...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 19–38.
Published: 01 July 2023
...-living pigs’ shifting agency and identity. Introduced pigs were modern English breeds, domesticates in nascent capitalist stages of unmaking. Yet, these animals were made anew in Australia, living largely unmediated and demonstrating remarkable adaptability to novel environments. This article analyzes...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 3–26.
Published: 01 May 2019
... and beyond it. The following section foregrounds emerging post-capitalist forms of (re)production cropping-up in damaged ideological and environmental landscapes, approaches recursively inspired by compost paradigms and undomesticated by the logic of capitalism. The final body section highlights how dominant...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 361–366.
Published: 01 July 2022
... with Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing .” Edge Effects , June 18 , 2019 . https://edgeeffects.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/PlantationoceneReflections_Haraway_Tsing.pdf . Moore Jason . “ The End of the Road? Agricultural Revolutions in the Capitalist World-Ecology, 1450–2010 .” Journal...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 239–244.
Published: 01 May 2016
... Rights . Chichester : Columbia University Press , 2011 . Moore Jason W. “ The End of the Road? Agricultural Revolutions in the Capitalist World-Ecology, 1450-2010 .” Journal of Agrarian Change 10 , no. 3 ( 2010 ): 389 - 413 . Sadeghi Habib , and Sami Sherry...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 117–146.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., and domination, and many of them, including Marx, rooted their critiques at least partly in environmental grounds. Indeed, as John Bellamy Foster has shown, by the 1860s Marx was convinced that capitalist industrial agriculture was what we would now call unsustainable, and he had the wasting...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 May 2013
... it in the get-big-or-get-out world of agriculture. This tightening spiral of capitalist incursion and individual subjection plays out against farmers' archetypal sensibility of resignation and prototypical Midwestern conservatism. Ty's hog expansion falls victim to declining prices and rising interest rates...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 661–679.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., productivity, waste, and even pleasure. Drawing on resource and vegetal geographies, the energy humanities, and posthumanist accounts of capitalist production, this provocation begins by highlighting the shared reliance of bioenergy and fossil energy on the work that plants do while photosynthesizing...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 159–173.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., “extractive in a dual sense.” 6 Marx used the concept of metabolism to discuss the movement of raw materials through capitalist production processes, into the sphere of exchange, and throughout social formations (including agricultural properties, the built environment, and human bodies). It was a concept...
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Decentralized Production and Affective Economies: Theorizing the Ecological Implications of Localism
Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 107–127.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... 39 As Foster points out, the pioneering work of chemist Justus von Liebig on the cycling of nitrogen and phosphorous had drawn Marx's attention, and he understood that capitalist production interrupted these cycles; the agricultural products of increasingly industrialized farms were transported...
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