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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 182–201.
Published: 01 March 2022
... nurtured with these woods that created the possibility of a world: in marronage lies the search of a world. wilderness marronage coloniality Americas Caribbean Since the mid-nineteenth century, the theme of wilderness has been present in environmentalists’ calls to preserve wild spaces on Earth...
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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 (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 (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): 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): 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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (2023) 15 (1): 25–43.
Published: 01 March 2023
... astrobiology with visions and images from feminist postcolonial and decolonial theory, STS, and science fiction, and reflects on the enduring colonial tropes that provide the building blocks of current knowledge on outer space. The same colonial cartographic imagination at play in the much-debated frontier...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 187–207.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Diane Nelson; Nhenety Kariri-Xocó; Idiane Kariri-Xocó; Thea Pitman Abstract This article proposes that languages should be embraced by the field of extinction studies while at the same time being mindful of the imbrication of colonialism in both the assignation and terminology of extinction...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 124–141.
Published: 01 July 2023
... visible celestial phenomena to startling perceptual change. The film is less evocative of how darkness and other nocturnal processes are interwoven with colonial histories and interconnected socio-environmental injustices. Robert Sullivan, a poet whose ancestral lands include the Aoraki Mackenzie...
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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): 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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