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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 371–374.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of horrifying, tragic, and numbing ecological crises. Surely there’s no better time to ask not what we can do for the environment, but what eco-comedy can do for us. Eco-comedy prances with the audacious precept that environmental Armageddon is a laughing matter. That seismic threats to our planetary...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 69–93.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Andrew Mark Abstract This paper describes Bob Wiseman's allegorical piece, Uranium, arguing that it accesses emotion to alter the consciousness of percipients. Audiences respond with unusual intensity to Uranium's tragic environmental narrative. By using puppet theatre, film, comedy, and song...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 661–679.
Published: 01 November 2022
... environmentalists cause for concern. I have so far neglected a crucial issue: humor. Comedy is often understood as a strategy for dissipating anxiety, and we might see frog memes as an alt-right strategy for alleviating the above fears. 83 Yet as Lauren Berlant and Sianne Ngai note, comedy “just as likely...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 441–459.
Published: 01 July 2024
... this contention, as scholars have drawn attention to the productive potential of a number of comedic genres and strategies, including satire, irony, parody, humorous environmental writing, and even stand-up comedy. 6 These critical studies have documented how comedic modes of representation can serve to engage...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 255–258.
Published: 01 May 2016
... subservience, Abraham consults no one. Was Isaac really “his” to destroy? Was this river really “theirs” to dam, this landscape “yours” to irradiate? Second there is Burkert, who spun the story of sacrifice as a “comedy of innocence”—a pantomime of consent that exonerates violence. 3 The sacrificial bull...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 May 2013
.... 4 But how did Schwarzenegger become an environmental hero around the globe, including Sweden, of all countries, internationally renowned for its progressive environmental and gender politics? Wasn't Arnold just an action figure in popular culture, the protagonist in nonsensical comedies...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 459–469.
Published: 01 November 2021
... and shaped his philosophy. Like the adventures met by Odysseus, or the journey in The Divine Comedy guided by Beatrice, he is directed by meetings that interrupt, branch out, erode, renew and bring joy, pain, and love. Serres has always been well ahead of the game, but rarely invited to play among...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 202–215.
Published: 01 March 2022
... not only of Black fiction and poetry but also of popular genres like song and even stand-up comedy—think of Richard Pryor’s imitation of menacing “jungle” animals and of the bored, exhausted “animals you fuck over at the zoo.” 53 These authors recognize that the language available to describe other...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 371–384.
Published: 01 July 2024
... as a surreal kind of prop comedy. While the book version of The Secret Life of Plants unapologetically hails Backster as the Newton of a new science, the impression communicated by the film is more complex. The film adaptation of The Secret Life of Plants has documentary-like qualities, but scenes...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 23–55.
Published: 01 May 2012
... from a multitude of their human para-selves—park administrators, farmers, and consumers who paid to drink their milk and eat their flesh. The stories of these entangled agents involve elements of comedy—a celebration of integration, continuity, and shared values—in contrast to the tragic destruction...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 224–244.
Published: 01 May 2021
... to hope for prevention, “Dear Climate” species suicide notes center ambiguity, irony, and dark comedy. As I have outlined above, the phrase species suicide has relied on ironic modes to convey an earnest fear throughout its history. The suicide note genre does not generally foreground irony; yet...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 May 2020
... inspired by the Old Testament and a voiceover narrative drawing on Dante’s Divine Comedy , Zhao’s cinematography takes us through a lyrical yet heart-wrenching journey—from the open cast mines on the steppes of Inner Mongolia to the miners’ residencies, from the hospital rooms where workers undergo lung...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 454–474.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., epic, and comedy, shape understandings of the nature/culture divide in a variety of problematic ways. Dolly Jørgensen has explored the trope of the “endling” and the mobilization of the “last of a species” to shape understandings of the extinction crisis as well as the way dominant extinction...
