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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Ryan Juskus Abstract This article provides a genealogy and analysis of the concept of a sacrifice zone. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research, the article traces the origins and transformation of sacrifice zones from (1) a livestock and land management concept into (2) a critical energy...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 191–202.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of Marder's concepts, plant “nourishment,” “desire” and “language” are explored through readings of Gabrielle de Vietri's installation The Garden of Bad Flowers (2014), the story of Daphne from Ovid's Metamorphoses (8 CE) and Alice's encounter with talking flowers in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 168–186.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Dominic O’Key Abstract This essay argues that the concept of extinction, polysemous if not overdetermined, is becoming an emergent keyword of contemporary public life as it faces the climate crisis. To make this argument the essay critically considers the ways in which extinction is currently being...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 41–58.
Published: 01 May 2016
... viability for protecting scarce resources. On the basis of this revised understanding this article then offers a different interpretation of Hardin's thesis by assigning hermeneutic priority to the concept of “tragedy” (Aristotle, Nietzsche) rather than the concept of the “commons.” Read through the concept...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 107–128.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Jeremy Trombley Abstract The term watershed is derived from the German wasserscheide , which means “parting of the waters” and refers to the geographic boundary that separates one drainage basin from another. It is from this definition that we derive the concept of “watershed moments”—events...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 501–527.
Published: 01 November 2018
... the environmental humanities. Building on Donna Haraway’s work, we insist “it matters what compostables make compost.” Our argument is twofold. First, we contend that certain feminist concepts and commitments are foundational to the environmental humanities’ contemporary emergence. Second, we advocate for more...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 407–430.
Published: 01 November 2020
... concept of livable worlds, such as those in which nonnormate life thrives. Whereas the former ought to broaden its notion of “lives worth living,” the latter would benefit from a more specific theory of design—the making and remaking of more livable worlds. In response, this article offers the concept...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 182–201.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Malcom Ferdinand Abstract What is the relevance of the concept of wilderness today? For some, the recognition of a troubled history of wilderness regarding people of color does not challenge its pertinence in facing the ecological crisis. However, the author contends that the wilderness concept...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 375–384.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Stine Krøijer; Cecilie Rubow Abstract This special issue takes its point of departure in political philosopher Jane Bennett’s concept of enchantment and her discussion of how moods of enchantment may inform an ethics of care. The contributions aim to rethink the concept of enchantment and unfold...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 162–180.
Published: 01 July 2023
... to the construction of better, alternate futures. Rather than advance yet another definition of the commons, this article examines how its means of knowledge production might ensue differently by dislocating the concept from its existing points of epistemological orientation. At the heart of this inquiry lies...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 403–421.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Michelle Bastian Abstract This provocation critiques the notion of long-term thinking and the claims of its proponents that it will help address failures in dominant conceptions of time, particularly in regard to environmental crises. Drawing on analyses of the Clock of the Long Now and Kim Stanley...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 266–283.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Andrea Ballestero Abstract Planetary awareness has become synonymous with awareness of large-scale temporal, geographic, and geologic events. Given the scalar multiplicities and instabilities of life on earth, concepts such as planetarity, the Anthropocene, and even the global have provided...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 118–141.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Sara B. Pritchard Abstract Ecologists’ concept of “memory effects” considers how past environments shape current and future ones. Drawing on ethnographic research and historical scholarship, this essay uses their concept to ask what scientists remember and what they forget, and to expand ecologists...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 196–214.
Published: 01 November 2016
... concept for a theory of what can be known and experienced through situated sonic encounter. At stake in this account is not only the question of cetology’s power-laden ways of engaging cetaceans but the role of sound in shifting conceptions of the ocean itself. Copyright © 2016 Max Ritts and John Shiga...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 241–256.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Alan Macpherson Abstract The objective of this article is to think through the concepts of deep time and enchantment with Caroline Wendling’s White Wood (2014), a living artwork in northeast Scotland. The first part of the article establishes the relationship between deep time, ecology...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 108–136.
Published: 01 May 2019
... a merely critical approach and to contribute to the search for critically affirmative points of exit into new and more promising worlding practices. Therefore, it engages in the discussion of the Anthropocene concept’s lack of potentials to go beyond critique. Instead, the author tries out Donna Haraway’s...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 454–474.
Published: 01 November 2020
... on the sea floor, which are known as “whale falls.” It reads these ecosystems via a notion of “suspended ground,” which brings together philosopher Mick Smith’s rethinking of an ethics of encounter with unknown soil extinctions and Stacy Alaimo’s concept of “suspension.” The article argues that engaging...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 475–491.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Katharine Dow; Janelle Lamoreaux Abstract Contemporary concern about climate change has been accompanied by a resurgence in questions about what part human numbers play in environmental degradation and species loss. What does population mean, and how is this concept being put to use at a moment...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 433–458.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., there is no reason why the concept of assessment cannot be elasticated to include the concerns of interpretive social science and the humanities. Building on the forty-year history and authority of GEAs as a means to bridging the gap between the research world and the wider world, this article identifies...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 November 2021
... broader geopolitics of experimentation and more-than-human gendered conceptions. Analyzing the multispecies relationships engendered under the premise that it is possible to produce nonencounters, she identifies the historical conditions and promissory claims of transforming the A. aegypti ’s reproductive...