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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 201–223.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Willis Jenkins Abstract This article develops an account of listening as a model for integrating inquiries into rapid environmental change from arts, sciences, and humanities. The account is structured around interpretation of the Coastal Futures Conservatory (CFC), an initiative for integrating...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 280–301.
Published: 01 November 2019
... project to investigate the cultural influences and impacts of ecosystem change in coastal environments around the Irish Sea. A collaboration between environmental humanities and ecological sciences, the project sought a materialist intervention in the conceptualization and practice of ecosystem assessment...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 264–271.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., and increased storms due to anthropogenic climate change mean that it will continue, and worsen, forcing the existential crises for coastal communities to the fore. Suffolk and Norfolk towns now appear in national news or scientific research articles. One example is Happisburgh, with the startling image of its...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 113–131.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Glacial Maximum), land ice began melting and forced a rise in global sea level by a net 120 meters on average between about fifteen thousand years ago and the present that led to changes to coastal geography to which many human groups had no choice but to adapt. At times, sea level rise was much faster...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 8–29.
Published: 01 November 2023
... a way of relating to the physical environment, and rituals help people respond to problems such as coastal erosion and overfishing. However, there is no evidence suggesting that this particular animistic belief system has given way to environmentalist action, let alone induced systemic change. Animistic...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 461–464.
Published: 01 November 2019
... water temperatures are eating away at our ideas of stability. But in some places, the ground was never quite stable in the first place. On the seashores and on the coastal lowlands, the ground is a half-liquid, seeping, shifting edge between land and water: a mutable boundary of mud, sand, and silt...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 40–59.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Denis Byrne Abstract Projects of coastal reclamation have allowed humanity to expand its terrestrial foothold, often quite dramatically, although the act of extension may be forgotten as we come to naturalize these new lands as timeless terra firma. Against this possibility, my investigation...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 296–320.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of coastal livelihoods on marine life is rather patchy, and other issues such as industrial fishing, illicit shark finning, industrial pollution, marine gas extraction and climate change, and legacies of the independence conflict in which fighters based themselves in national parks, are all contributing...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 680–691.
Published: 01 November 2024
... them a potent source for engaging with many pressing issues, both historical and contemporary. From where we stand in time and space, Brexit, closed borders at a time of pandemic, coastal erosion and climate activism, hostile migration policies, the Windrush scandal, Black Lives Matter...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 309–330.
Published: 01 July 2024
... settler societies and institutions use endangered marine species to make specific claims to home and, by extension, erase Indigenous claims to place. International tourism, military activities, fishing industries, and, increasingly, climate change have rendered the coastal waters and beaches unlivable...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 183–200.
Published: 01 March 2024
... in common, they otherwise reflect a range of different European habitats, from coastal lowlands and tidal flats on the North Sea to mixed woodland and spruce forest in Central Europe and glacial lakes and mountain ranges in the Pyrenees, and they provide a cross section of the issues that dominate European...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 208–230.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Julia D. Gibson Abstract Even with the advent of climate change, mainstream environmentalism lacks a robust death ethics, that is, ethical theories and practices for attending directly to what is owed to the unjustly dead and dying. This article draws on Indigenous, Afrofuturist, and feminist...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 467–476.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of Geological Sciences to refer to a geological epoch that would follow the Holocene. As its name reflects, the Anthropocene would be defined by the irreversible changes in the biophysical and geological conditions, at a planetary scale, as a consequence of human actions. In contrast to climate change...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 173–178.
Published: 01 May 2020
... This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Terrestrial, bipedal, air breathing, and poorly waterproofed, how can humans fathom the bottom of the sea? This article was composed by an anthropologist, a cultural theorist, a philosopher, a coastal...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 95–112.
Published: 01 May 2014
...” series of digitally enhanced TV programs. These highly popular mediations of railroad or boat travel challenge Schivelbusch's ideas of speed, distance, and experience of landscapes, but also direct our attention towards the role of digital media in making sense of a changing world. Copyright: ©...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 137–151.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., she bore witness instead to a damage that had already occurred: to injuries already suffered, costs unwittingly paid, life in the aftermath. Both figures captured a set of changed realities, distilling them into an appeal for protection—but while the mother on the banner called for preemptive action...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 2–7.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of Indigenous knowledge in Enlightenment science. Or it might include alter-Enlightenments, such as the experiments in government and economy conducted by pirates and matriarchal Malagasy coastal communities in Madagascar, experiments that prefigured European ideas of freedom and liberty. 20 Indeed...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 457–474.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., and often in unexpected places. The article draws on extensive fieldwork within aquaculture production sites in western Norway and in the coastal regions of Varanger, North Norway. 12. Tsing, Mushroom at the End of the World , 159 ; Mathews, “Coming into Noticing.” 13. Bennett, Enchantment...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 13–33.
Published: 01 May 2014
... and financial costs of this kind of change. This is one coastal community out of many, after all, and every coastline in the world would be affected, not to mention low-lying islands that would be completely inundated. The light blue line challenges viewers to believe that a sunken history is a loss...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2024
... . 7. J. Cohen, Prismatic Ecologies , xx . 8. Blue economy, as defined by intergovernmental organizations and financial institutions such as the United Nations and the World Bank, refers to a range of economic sectors and related policies—coastal tourism, fishery, shipping, offshore mining...
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