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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 219–234.
Published: 01 November 2023
... As well as underscoring how climate change threatens their future, these youthful campaigners reminded their elders that children are more vulnerable than adults to extreme weather and related environmental threats. climate change human origins evolution child raising paleoenvironmental...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 145–161.
Published: 01 March 2022
... the ambiguities and tensions that surround the figure of the child, which—to quote again from Duane’s introduction—raises “uncomfortable questions that complicate the stance that authority is inherently oppressive and that subversion and resistance are unqualified positives.” 14 In times of catastrophic...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 151–168.
Published: 01 May 2016
... these curious humans know she is aware of them. Responding to this motion, one of the children places his hand on the window to gesture hello. The mother raccoon leaves her youngsters and approaches the window. Without hesitation, she raises her paw to meet the child's hand through the glass. Silently...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 60–83.
Published: 01 May 2017
... landing in Britain. 57 In Fixing the Sky , James Roger Fleming describes how FIDO consisted of “a system of tanks, pipes, and burners surrounding British airfields and designed to deliver petroleum that, when ignited, raised the ambient temperature by several degrees—enough to disperse the fog...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 162–181.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and the Whale is her favorite of their joint books, as she feels it captures “something of the soulful whimsy of the Edward Lear poems [she] enjoyed as a child.” 16 In exuberant rhyme, The Snail and the Whale tells the story of a tiny sea snail who longs to travel, so writes a note on a rock with her...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 217–232.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., delving into its history, its epistemological preconditions, and its representational capacity. In this essay, I suggest a connection between this attraction to a supposedly outdated medium and the representational challenges raised by the model of the Anthropocene. A first example offers Sebastião...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 137–151.
Published: 01 May 2019
... almost inevitable—dispersing themselves through local environments, embedding themselves in the food chain, in human organs, in the public imagination? The immediate context for my visit to the village was a local fund-raising event being held by a major national NGO that has involved itself...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 438–456.
Published: 01 July 2022
... daughter, dressed with a pink bow and polka-dot onesie, to meet the child’s grandfather, a man stuck on the other side. José Marquéz had lived with his wife and children in the United States for eighteen years, until he was deported in 2002. Each month he came to Friendship Park to see what he could of his...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 233–236.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... As a child I would go into the tree, pushing through its scratchy, bitter-smelling branches to press myself against the trunk so that only my bare feet could be seen, rooting in the dusty brown litterfall. I would peer between the fronds and become the tree; unseen by passersby, I could stand silent, still...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 277–281.
Published: 01 May 2014
... before they were struck by lightning. The boys survived, but the younger child—Sean—suffered third degree burns. Another visitor to the rock was killed by the lightning strike. 1 I first came across this photograph in an online newspaper article instructing people on signs that lightning...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 159–165.
Published: 01 May 2015
... in any case, even if one can stomach coercive law or custom (I cannot). On the other hand, what if the new normal were to become a cultural expectation that every new child have at least three lifetime committed parents (who are not necessarily each other's lovers and who would birth no more new babies...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 351–372.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of taking his side; of worrying about my research, about what would happen if I criticized his actions. Would doors close? Would my concern for this guinea pig raise questions that might imperil access to these kinds of spaces? In that moment, I felt my project, the so-called multispecies research I...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 95–117.
Published: 01 May 2016
... it is denied, not just absent—it has to start somewhere, with a first move: an opening, a decision, a gesture; an offering. A child, waving to a stone from the back of a car. Animism may be an ontology, or an academic construct 89 —but is it not also a tactic, a method, an instrument of insurrection, a war...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 27–51.
Published: 01 May 2019
... features a close-up of a white female child smiling softly, nestled in greenery, with a colorful scarf protecting her tilted head, while the Environmental Defense Fund offers a tight close-up of a Latina child who gazes steadily at the viewer as she uses an inhaler in a story on raising community awareness...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 141–154.
Published: 01 May 2012
... family or non-family labour raised them, and there was no dearth of people; but state-supported property encouraged labour inside the family, i.e., children. Having lots of children was not just nature at work; not all animals work to maximise reproduction. Out-of-control and non-sustainable human...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 208–230.
Published: 01 March 2023
... the death of her infant less than an hour after birth, Tahlequah repeatedly raised the calf to the surface with her rostrum (as new orca mothers commonly do), eventually choosing to balance the body on her head or fin. Every time her child slipped into the water, Tahlequah would take several deep breaths...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 264–271.
Published: 01 May 2021
... to read that some clifftops are eroding by as many as five meters (approx. five yards) every year, taking farms, roads, habitats, and properties with them. 1 It wasn’t a feature of the landscape that I thought or felt much about, as a child. My fondest memories are in and around Shingle Street...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 291–308.
Published: 01 July 2024
... would have been able to have children, so the family [who raised the killer] must not be able to reproduce either. [The kunu ] will shut [ tapu ] all the wombs of [the killer’s] family. In this manner, your generation [ paansu ; literally, “shoot”] will end. 24 As is apparent here, kunu act...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 110–128.
Published: 01 March 2022
... with a simple little bear,” but it expanded to encompass everything that belonged in the suburban Physiologus of the American child because the “starch mogul system that makes gummies can deliver almost anything you can design.” 72 This magnificent gummi menagerie embodies an imagined “animal kingdom...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 807–825.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., making it one of the most prevalent perspectives, especially considering that environmental culpability was frequently raised in other sources as well. Covering the 2020–21 time frame of these perspectives, the term anthropause was coined by a team of wildlife biologists and ecologists to denote...