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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 88–106.
Published: 01 March 2025
..., this article traces what the author calls a colonial desert imaginary embedded within the food desert. Staying with the problem of the metaphorical desert within the food desert refuses to forgive or look past this problematic connection, but instead tethers it to long colonial histories, imperial logics...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 132–166.
Published: 01 May 2020
... that constituted colonial Caribbean mapping, 30 The Waters of Kiskeya/Quisqueya demands that the viewer take in multiple, often diffracted perspectives at once. There are three horizontal spatial registers: the undersea, the land and sea surface, and the air. In the depths Désert represents black-and-white...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 23–44.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Lisa Blackmore Abstract This article elucidates a select corpus of contemporary artworks from Latin America as art for the hydrocommons by showing how they make generative contributions to imagining more just human-water relations and to thinking critically about the impacts of colonialism...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 May 2018
... novel The Island Will Sink (2016)—the affects of climate catastrophe will be traced as they take differing aesthetic forms in the imaginary of the global north: the desert, the flood, the mediated disaster. 9 These forms show the varied ways in which the future marks the present, not simply...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 25–43.
Published: 01 March 2023
... on environmental imperialism and on the coloniality of space exploration, recently analyzed by Natalie Treviño, the relation between colonial space imaginaries and environmentalism beyond our planet remains under-studied. 14 Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s pathbreaking Decolonising Methodologies outlined how...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 223–234.
Published: 01 March 2025
... relationship with various material sources of energetic power found in Latin America—a region historically transformed by the social, racial, ethnic, and gendered legacies of colonialism and (neo)extractivism. From coal and petroleum to hydropower and lithium, “Energy Matters” charts the contrapuntal dynamics...
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A Planetary Battery
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 643–660.
Published: 01 November 2024
... such numbers. They are predicated on the assumption that vast swaths of Earth, in this case its deserts, can be carpeted with silicon cells. This ignores that deserts are rich ecosystems and home to around 6 percent of humanity. A sort of neo-orientalism encourages these solar cornucopians to ignore...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 351–370.
Published: 01 July 2024
... the relationship between irony and settler-colonial imaginaries in writings about unpredictable bodies of water. Focusing on settler writing in Australia, the article juxtaposes nineteenth-century author Henry Lawson and contemporary novelist Jane Rawson to argue that irony constitutes a form of environmental...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 19–35.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Emma Blackett Abstract This article discusses the settler-colonial femininity at work in two films that foreground the Pacific Ocean, Blue Crush (John Stockwell, 2002) and The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993). With these film readings it offers a critique of the feminist new materialist turn toward water...
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Waiting in Petro-Time
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 52–64.
Published: 01 November 2023
... to be normalized as a new baseline. For this reason, Adriana Petryna describes climate change not as a singular phenomenon or event but as an “ongoing process of destabilization.” 10 The end of this world, the world built through colonial and capitalist extraction, as the libretto in Sun & Sea suggests...
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The Anthropocene in Chile: Toward a New Pact of Coexistence Las Cruces, April 2017 www.antropoceno.co
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 467–476.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and, therefore, beyond specific ecosystemic transformations. Lastly, the Anthropocene indicates the potential extinction of the conditions of the biosphere that enable human life on Earth. Since the changes in the conditions of the biosphere are the result of colonialism, capitalism, and a consumption...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 37–56.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of animal experimentation, our experiment also considered speculation linking the Xenopus pregnancy test to the extinction of other frogs. Amphibian biologists once hypothesized that Xenopus frogs brought a pathogenic fungus out of Africa. We found that this outbreak narrative projected colonial and racial...
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The War between Amaranth and Soy: Interspecies Resistance to Transgenic Soy Agriculture in Argentina
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 204–229.
Published: 01 November 2017
... contains a promise of human emancipation, a solution to world hunger, and a guarantee of sustainable environmental management, and while various governments have embraced these hopeful imaginaries, resistance to the appropriation of lands and bodies by GE plants has been steadily growing. Argentina...
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Microbial Geographies at the Extremes of Life
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 398–417.
Published: 01 November 2017
... solar system and sparked a new wave of scientific writing on terraforming and planetary ecosynthesis. It seems worthwhile to also note here that all these events coincide with a considerable rise in bioprospecting activities in the Antarctic and other extreme ecologies such as the Atacama Desert...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 119–139.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Workbook, 42. It was during Goethe and Hutton’s time of geologic contemplation that brutal forces of colonialism were at work making capital and conquest out of geologic discovery. Plutonic-Vulcanic debates were inevitably tied to larger projects of imperial nation-building and extractive practices...
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Extractive Fictions and Postextraction Futurisms: Energy and Environmental Injustice in Appalachia
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 402–426.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Imperialism in the Americas , and Goméz-Barris, Extractive Zone , 1–16 . 15. Kuletz, The Tainted Desert , 6 . 16. Adamson, American Indian Literature , 52 ; Churchill and LaDuke, “Native North America: The Political Economy of Radioactive Colonialism,” 163–65 . For an overview...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 603–623.
Published: 01 November 2024
... these photographs were made, Senga was based six hundred kilometers south of Manono in Lubumbashi, a city with its own history as an enclave economy, having been established as a copper-mining settlement by the Belgian colonial regime in 1910. In recent years, Senga too has also been involved in a transnational...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 407–430.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Aimi Hamraie Abstract This article responds to two diverging notions of “livability”: the normative New Urbanist imaginary of livable cities, where the urban good life manifests in neoliberal consumer cultures, green gentrification, and inaccessible infrastructures, and the feminist and disability...
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Toxic Erotics and Bad Ecosex at Windermere Basin
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 699–717.
Published: 01 November 2022
... been suppressed by settler colonial norms. I also think about young women, and cars, and sex in deserted and remote parking lots, and the vastly different ways in which that story ends. So it feels a bit disconcerting to be so smitten by this place. What does it mean to feel deep erotic desire...
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“The Only Almost Germ-Free Continent Left”: Pandemics and Purity in Cultural Perceptions of Antarctica
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 109–127.
Published: 01 March 2023
... construction of Antarctica during COVID-19 needs to be understood against this disturbing aspect of the Antarctic imaginary, and also that narratives of Antarctic purity are imaginatively linked to both geopolitical exclusions and the melting of Antarctic ice. 52. Wijkmark, “Poe’s Pym.” Also noteworthy...
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