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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 419–437.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Piergiorgio Di Giminiani Abstract Drawing on the experiences of caring in agriculture and forestry among Mapuche landholders of Chile, this article advances a definition of care as an act of relating intervening mutual articulations of vitality. Caring for nonhumans entails a reflexive awareness...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 375–384.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Stine Krøijer; Cecilie Rubow Abstract This special issue takes its point of departure in political philosopher Jane Bennett’s concept of enchantment and her discussion of how moods of enchantment may inform an ethics of care. The contributions aim to rethink the concept of enchantment and unfold...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 457–474.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Marianne E. Lien Abstract An ethics of care in nature conservation must ask not only whose voices are heard, but also which interspecies relations that come to matter. Inspired by Jane Bennett’s question about how ethical codes are transformed into laudable acts in interspecies relations...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 219–234.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Nigel Clark; Rebecca Whittle Abstract With their specter of intergenerational betrayal, global environmental crises increasingly entangle politics with matters of care, attachment, and love—especially the unconditional bonds we are so often assumed to share with our offspring. As a contribution...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 826–841.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., and Mexico. Through its travels, the at-risk insect connects and disconnects humans, revealing tensions between the different actors participating in its survival across its North-South geographies. In the North, conservation relies on the voluntary care work of butterfly amateurs who recreate monarch...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 421–446.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of corporate actors to oil palm seeds. I begin by describing how nursery workers in their everyday practices adopt the role of motherly caregivers to seeds as their cherished “babies.” I then explore how scientists conceive experimental breeding as a way of caring for the future of plants and the planet...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 May 2013
... “minus human.” Other more positive investments are also in play. I began this telling with the story of some bird-men, poised on the edge of a marsh—taciturn, attentions turned entirely on the birds in their telescopes. Here, observation was a delicate craft, a careful operation that wove into itself...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 291–294.
Published: 01 May 2014
... Bellacasa and Donna Haraway—I have also begun to appreciate an important role for care, in all of its ambiguity and complexity. What does it mean to care for others at the edge of extinction? What forms might careful scholarship take at this time? Figure 1 Enrichment: A Hawaiian Crow (Corvus...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 181–203.
Published: 01 November 2017
... climate change—until the year 2200. The centuries ahead are eerily foreshortened. Not all researchers involved with ice cores point in deterministic directions when discussing the future. Glaciologist Paul Mayewski and science writer Frank White have been careful about drawing future conclusions from...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 241–264.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Jared Margulies Abstract How does attention to exertion and absence of care illuminate possibilities for avoiding extinction amid global biodiversity declines? This article brings together feminist technoscience and more-than-human theory on care with Lacanian psychoanalytic theories of anxiety...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 118–142.
Published: 01 May 2016
... care in times of death and loss: at places of confinement and elephant suffering like the zoos in Seattle and Zürich as well as in the conflict-ridden landscapes of South India, where the country’s last free-ranging elephants live. Our stories of deadly viral-elephant-human becomings remind us...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 431–453.
Published: 01 November 2020
... uncompensated medical care that targets “superusers” of the US health care system. The case scrutinizes the operative truths, procedural rationalities, and absurd reductions performed by this administrative system that sorts people in terms of cost and risk. It shows how such administrative strategies result...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 349–369.
Published: 01 November 2018
... actors. In caring for the land and its lakes in practical ways it is important to sustain respectful relations with those actors. Norwegian environmental policy works differently by distinguishing between nature and culture and seeking to protect landscapes from what it takes to be human interference, so...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 501–527.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Jennifer Mae Hamilton; Astrida Neimanis Abstract Composting is a material labor whereby old scraps are transformed—through practices of care and attention—into nutrient-rich new soil. In this provocation, we develop “composting” as a material metaphor to tell a particular story about...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 181–200.
Published: 01 May 2021
... phenomenon that involves human and nonhuman bodies in a shared affective space. Last, the article reclaims Painlevé for contemporary concerns, linking aesthetics to ethics and politics and bodily movement to care for the world. © 2021 Franziska Strack 2021 This is an open access article distributed...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 November 2021
... the A. aegypti so that they can be deployed to control their own population—here, mosquito breeding and mating is operationalized as an insecticide. In this case, the insect must be simultaneously a friend and an enemy, cared for and killed, and it must establish encounters and nonencounters. Drawing...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 385–400.
Published: 01 July 2022
... Fort McKay First Nation and Bigstone Cree Nation describe how sakâwiyiniwak ecological care is rooted in kinship. Moments of enchantment, or intense moments of noticing and “plant-thinking,” inspire new appreciation of the boreal forest and the many familiar plants that grow within it, illuminating...
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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 (2022) 14 (2): 475–493.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Cecilie Rubow Abstract Contrary to the taken-for-granted dictum in nature politics and in public media that “loving nature prompts care,” this article considers less intuitive relations between love and ethics. Through the analysis of different enactments of natures in Denmark and a reading of Jane...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 44–63.
Published: 01 March 2023
... care for the world. However, while collaboration across difference might close conceptual and material gaps between self and other, and nature and society, it is not always clear whether or how collaboration should take place. Indeed, largely absent in these debates are matters concerning cross-species...