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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 349–369.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Liv Østmo; John Law Abstract This article describes a colonial encounter in north Norway between Sámi practices for fishing and knowing the natural world, and the conservation policies of state policy makers. In Sámi practices the world is populated by powerful and morally lively human and nonhuman...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 142–161.
Published: 01 March 2024
... 4.0). Lorine Niedecker Lake Superior settler colonialism deep time settler time While Lorine Niedecker was on a road trip around Lake Superior in July of 1966, her handbag broke. Her husband, Al, was an industrial painter in Milwaukee, and the couple were spending their weeklong...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 129–132.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of ecological inheritance in the settler colonial contexts of Canada and Australia, cognisant of the fact that settler colonialism remains an incomplete project. Nothing is finally settled. 2 Moreover, they start from the premise that the ecological legacies of the western colonial enterprise of early...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2024
... humanities take shape under the umbrella of the environmental humanities? This article examines the blue humanities to argue that its blues address colonial inheritances and critique colonial desires. Blue has long appealed to the colonial imaginary; it drew European ships across the seas to mine blue...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 169–190.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., we explore the ways in which western and Inuit cosmologies differentially inform particular relationships with the inhuman, and ‘trash animals' in particular. We argue that waste and wasting exist within a complex set of historically embedded and contemporaneously contested neo-colonial structures...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 182–201.
Published: 01 March 2022
... décoloniale ,11–47 ; DeLoughrey and Handley, Postcolonial Ecologies , 20 . 4. Taylor, Diversity in Environmental Organizations ; Finney, Black Faces, White Spaces . 3. Neumann, Imposing Wilderness ; Gissibl, Nature of German Imperialism ; Nelson, “Environmental Colonialism...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 66–92.
Published: 01 May 2021
.... The botanical garden’s curatorial practices silenced histories of colonial occupation, frontier violence, colonial agriculture, and slavery that had shaped the land on which it was built. Narratives that celebrated colonial histories were cultivated in monumental gardening. Throughout its existence...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 174–189.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of resource exploration and colonial warfare. It explores how the disavowal of war and hydrocarbon exploration forecloses political and ethical possibilities. It further examines how emergent geosocial relations between people and rocks carry the possibility of reckoning with anti-Kurdish war and violence...
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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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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 162–182.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of encounters between Britons and dangerous natural environments in tropical colonies. This article combines literary-historical criticism with a history of emotions perspective to show how the expression or, alternately, elision of fear in adventure memoirs helped to frame encounters with wild animals...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 303–320.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Lizzy Nichols Abstract The figure of the “native informant,” as outlined by Spivak, confers a legitimacy of “inside” information for the colonial subject that, ultimately, is generalized to the point of confirming the colonist’s view of the world, challenging nothing and, instead, providing...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 18–39.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Sarah Besky Abstract Darjeeling, a district in the Himalayan foothills of the Indian state of West Bengal, is a former colonial “hill station.” It is world famous both as a destination for mountain tourists and as the source of some of the world’s most expensive and sought-after tea. For decades...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 699–717.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Astrida Neimanis Abstract How do settler colonialism, control of women’s and differently gendered bodies, sex, industry, pollution—but also pleasure, love, care, desire, bodily autonomy, and survival—cleave together and apart in the inland wetland of Windermere Basin park? Starting...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 309–330.
Published: 01 July 2024
... between 2008 and 2009, the article argues that the language of home points to the ongoing operations of colonialism in Western conservation. Reading the discourse of homelessness offers a methodology for tracing the histories and manifestations of colonial logics as they circulate in conservation science...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 235–250.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Adam Bobbette Abstract This article presents an alternative political history of recent planetary thought through an examination of geopoetics rooted in the colonial politics of Indonesia and Cold War geosciences. This history reveals how geopoetics has not been marginal or critical of dominant...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 149–170.
Published: 01 May 2014
... supply. Here we investigate the response to colony collapse disorder of a committed group of beekeepers who live in southern England, UK. These beekeepers are inspired by the writings of Rudolf Steiner and the principles of biodynamic agriculture, and they care deeply about bees. Drawing on Judith...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 137–151.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Hugo Reinert Abstract Triangulating narratives from a prospective mining site in northern Norway, this article works to identify (and render graspable) a particular effect of retroactive shock—tracing its resonance through experiences of chemical exposure, colonial racism, cultural erasure...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 133–150.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Lesley Instone; Affrica Taylor Abstract Modes of thinking matter. In this article we engage with the figure of the Anthropocene as the impetus for rethinking the messy environmental legacies of Australian settler colonialism that we have inherited. We do this rethinking in a small rural valley...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 226–240.
Published: 01 May 2018
... with the colonial legacy. This struggle sits next to the ambition of land management authorities to adopt traditional Indigenous mosaic-patterned cool-burning techniques as part of a fire mitigation strategy, without directly addressing the colonial history inscribed on the land they are commissioned to manage. ©...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and territory, the author introduces “recalcitrance” as an interspecies co-laboring between humans and plants, unknowable through botanical and capitalist practices emerging in a colonial context. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research, the article first studies the nineteenth-century colonial frontier...
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