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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 418–432.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., and navigation—I consider how people visiting the Antarctic are trained to order their lives and work, especially in preparation for emergencies. Notions of risk, danger, and catastrophe hinge on the broader historical and cultural contexts of Antarctica as a frontier zone, making preparedness in the Antarctic...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Michael Richardson Abstract The climate catastrophe to come is traumatically affecting, whether in its micro and macro manifestations, in the threat it poses to existing ways of life, in its upending of entrenched understandings of the workings of the world, or in the injury it is doing...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 321–340.
Published: 01 July 2022
... forest peoples, and a catastrophic COVID-19 pandemic. Some environmentalists suggest that escaping such devastation means returning to previous neoliberal policies such as “climate-smart agriculture” (CSA) that were promoted as a way to open a future of endless economic expansion and forest preservation...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 145–161.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Cook’s The New Wilderness —that evoke a child’s experience of societal collapse in the wake of a catastrophic event. Diverse meanings come to the fore as these novels outline, through child focalization, the relevance of bodily experience, materiality, and reenchantment vis-à-vis the climate crisis...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 699–717.
Published: 01 November 2022
... colonialism and climate catastrophe, these erotics are queerly tangled in questions of more-than-human gender, sex, and reproduction, too, in ways that invite a capacious and multivalent understanding of reproductive justice. The final section examines the performance art of white settler ecosexuals Annie...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 224–244.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Kristen Cardon Abstract This article tracks the history of species suicide , a phrase that originally referred to a potential nuclear holocaust but is now increasingly cited in Anthropocene discourses to account for continued carbon emissions in the face of catastrophic climate change. With its...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 235–250.
Published: 01 November 2023
... the earth. The article examines how geopoetics has long been preoccupied with understanding the connectivity of nature and catastrophic histories and points to contemporary possibilities for rethinking the relationship between humans, the earth, and cosmos. [email protected] © 2023 Adam...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 273–294.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Nigel Clark; Alexandra Gormally; Hugh Tuffen Abstract In 2009, exploratory drilling of geothermal wells in Iceland’s Krafla volcanic caldera unexpectedly struck magma. The fact that the encounter did not have catastrophic consequences has excited considerable interest—and an international research...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 203–216.
Published: 01 May 2014
.... “Risk,” explains Ulrich Beck in his World at Risk (2007), “is not synonymous with catastrophe. Risk means the anticipation of the catastrophe. Risks concern the possibility of future occurrences and developments; they make present a state of the world that does not (yet) exist.” 14...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 101–123.
Published: 01 May 2014
.... Consequently, geoengineering evokes both hopes and fears as for example a technological fix that saves humanity from climate catastrophe or an overly complex technology that interferes with sensitive and unpredictable Nature. In this paper, we aim to improve our understanding of the public discourse...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 233–238.
Published: 01 May 2016
... creation ex nihilo, the emerging profession was reluctant to accept any theory of catastrophism in which a transition from one period in Earth history to the next may be due to some natural paroxysm. In the end, the evidence for catastrophic changes (due, for example, to asteroid strikes) could...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 159–180.
Published: 01 May 2021
... much-needed public awareness, they may also slide into media clichés of apocalypticism without questioning what ideas about humans, or about the environment, underpin the insistent depiction of climate change as catastrophic, accelerating, and irreversible. Discourses that emphasize the precarity...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 271–290.
Published: 01 July 2024
... , no. 3 ( 2003 ): 257 – 337 . Wynter Sylvia , and McKittrick Katherine . “ Unparalleled Catastrophe for Our Species? Or, to Give Humanness a Different Future: Conversations .” In Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis , edited by McKittrick Katherine , 9 – 89 . Durham, NC...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 52–64.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., of suspension. Unlike with the narrative portrayals of climate change in Hollywood or the very real and increasingly disastrous extreme weather events taking place all over the globe, no catastrophe happens in the opera. The characters are all enveloped in their own worlds of leisure, with a constant background...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 219–225.
Published: 01 May 2016
... predicaments, to the famous scene in Mary Shelley's novel titled, I remind you, Frankenstein or the New Prometheus, where Dr Frankenstein flees in horror at the sight of the nameless creature he has manufactured from bits and pieces. As usual, those who fight against apocalyptic talk and catastrophism...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 168–186.
Published: 01 March 2023
.... The term extinction is historically specific. It has meant different things to different people across different conjunctures: from Georges Cuvier’s catastrophism to Charles Darwin’s gradualism, from colonial race science to the global conservation agenda, and from Anishinaabeg notions of a broken treaty...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 May 2020
.... As we enter the second decade of the twenty-first century, perhaps more so than any Western nations, China has generated a growing visual archive of industrially produced catastrophes, caused by dramatic chemical and industrial explosions. These are not cinematic fantasies, though they are densely...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 147–167.
Published: 01 May 2013
... aside for one moment, these two geological thresholds offer two critical pointers on both the continuity and rupture elements of the human trajectory. The first is that confrontation with natural catastrophe actually precipitated humanity towards an enhanced problem-solving mindset which enabled them...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 285–287.
Published: 01 May 2020
...: Essays and Speeches , 110 – 113 . New York : Ten Speed Press , 1984 . Maathai Wangari . “ Foresters Without Diplomas .” In Unbowed: A Memoir , 119 – 38 . New York : Anchor Books , 2007 . Stengers Isabelle . In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism . London...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 388–405.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., actively protesting—the global species extinction crisis in which we are immersed. 1 Departing from the rest of our history as a species, we find ourselves living in the unique human condition of what Stengers terms catastrophic times on a global scale. 2 Stengers begins her narrative...
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