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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 205–226.
Published: 01 May 2020
... innovations in agricultural and chemical science, Justus von Liebig’s chemical model of soil fertility involved a profound reenvisioning of organic development, distilling complex processes to a series of chemical relationships easily recognized in any geographic context. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s (1984...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 194–215.
Published: 01 May 2019
... reclaimed by activists engaged in a project of governance from below. This essay begins by exploring how the entwinement of fascist biopolitics and the chemical industry that occurred at the Ex-SNIA from the 1920s to the 1950s affected human and nonhuman bodies. Building on insights from feminist science...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 1–40.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of environmental change that inflict ‘slow violence’ on vulnerable human (and non-human) populations. Nixon argues that a lack of “arresting stories, images and symbols” reduces the visibility of gradual problems such as biodiversity loss, climate change and chemical pollution in cultural imaginations...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 101–116.
Published: 01 May 2013
... chemicals the day after the CBS broadcast, and more explicitly in the government report, Use of Pesticides, published a month later. At least in this example, the method of articulating uncertainty in order to develop a critique and initiate negotiations for alternate solutions based in science...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 181–203.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Alessandro Antonello; Mark Carey Abstract Ice cores from Antarctica, Greenland, and the high-mountain cryosphere have become essential sources of evidence on the climate dating back nearly 800,000 years. Earth scientists use ice cores to understand the chemical composition of the atmosphere, which...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 101–107.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., injected by imagery and terminology from the natural sciences and popular culture. Bioaccumulation describes for instance the processes by which toxic substances, industrial waste or human-made chemical compounds, gradually accumulate in living tissue. The highest concentrations of toxic pollutants find...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 23–50.
Published: 01 May 2020
... that emerge with chemical exposures. Some social groups have coalesced around place-based political action, while other chemosocial associations have proved to be ephemeral, evanescent, and conditional. Building on earlier work by multispecies ethnographers who have studied social relationships among humans...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 661–679.
Published: 01 November 2022
... A. , Nazir M. , Park A. , Brown T. , et al . “ Atrazine Induces Complete Feminization and Chemical Castration in Male African Clawed Frogs ( Xenopus laevis ) .” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 , no. 10 ( 2010 ): 4612 – 17 . Hayes Tyrone , and Chaffer...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 499–521.
Published: 01 November 2022
... fertility, soil science established a technoscientific grammar for the chemical consolidation and expansion of colonial-capitalist farming, laying the groundwork for future “chemical fixes” for agro-industrial crises. 6 This enabled the comparative valuation of the productivity of workers, soils...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 251–265.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Jerome Whitington Abstract This article looks toward nineteenth-century earth sciences with attention to their humanistic themes. In the early decades of the century, multiple lines of evidence concretized a humanistic experience of man as a finite being with a contingent and accidental planetary...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 190–204.
Published: 01 May 2020
... agronomic science as based on the lies of the father of chemical agronomy “Liebig—Lie-Big.” 21 In Indonesia, the divergent expertise of nonmainstream knowledge producers is being used to legitimize the ongoing destruction of peatlands for palm oil production, contrary to the advice from the scientific...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 62–84.
Published: 01 July 2023
... expressions of climate change embedded in climate processes. This article considers the oldest surviving largely unaltered Boulton and Watt rotative engine, housed in the collection of the Science Museum, London, as an example to examine how objects are at once the material expression of carbon economies...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 November 2016
... the implications of ME for the environmental humanities in general and for Anthropocene narratives in particular. ME relies on non-Darwinian evolutionary principles. In common with other branches of Earth system science, it also destabilizes prevailing ontological categories. Life becomes more material, matter...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 498–500.
Published: 01 November 2019
... which Paul Crutzen developed the Anthropocene concept we use today) are inherently multidisciplinary. To operate within them one must be able to navigate—at least at a basic level—within the biological, chemical, physical, mathematical, geographical, and other sciences. This is another aspect that makes...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 108–136.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of working through political neglect of carcinogenic effects of conditions of poverty in postcolonial capitalism and chemical modernity. The article introduces Anthropocene necropolitics as an analytics, useful for a critical understanding of the global cancer epidemics. But it aims also to transgress...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 285–287.
Published: 01 May 2020
... addresses the green version of the molecular labor argument, in which contemporary “agro-sciences are casting soil organisms in the role of agricultural laborers.” 4 Changing the mode of agricultural labor from tractors and chemicals to soil biota, she argues, is “likely to reproduce and may reinforce...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 136–158.
Published: 01 May 2021
... literalizes the metaphorical premise of Jean Toomer’s poem “Her Lips Are Copper Wire” and subjects the blazon tradition of Western poetry to material and chemical de- and recomposition, building on Toomer’s own refiguring of blazon in the context of American modernity and slavery’s afterlives in Cane (1923...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 187–212.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Manuel Tironi; Myra J. Hird; Cristián Simonetti; Peter Forman; Nathaniel Freiburger Abstract In this choral essay we, an assorted group of academics interested in inorganic life and matter, explore a mode of thinking and feeling with our objects of inquiry—chemicals, waste, cement, gas...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 348–371.
Published: 01 November 2021
... . www.politicalresearch.org/2020/07/09/blood-and-vanishing-topsoil . Blockstein David E. “ Lyme Disease and the Passenger Pigeon? ” Science 279 , no. 5358 (1998): 1831 . doi.org/10.1126/science.279.5358.1831c . Brown Andrew . “ Anatomy of a Selfish Genius .” Independent , October 17 , 1998...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 21–44.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., to understand the lines showing the uptick in oil extraction, we must account for the depths of oil extraction. “Depths of Addiction” affirms Michael Watts’s claim that “hard rock geology is a science of the vertical.” This verticality depends on an assemblage of “spatial technologies and spatial...
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