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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 310–329.
Published: 01 May 2018
.... The critique of the modern self as the “confessing animal” is partly relevant to us. We can see that the attempt of select humans to communicate “our” toxic legacy to the future could be viewed in terms parallel with the hubris of confessional truth-telling, self-disciplining, and seeking some sort...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 285–290.
Published: 01 November 2016
... illustrate the extent to which mainstream mid-twentieth-century Christian perspectives were often understood to be more hostile toward ecological thinking than host to it. See White, “Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis.” 10. See Augustine, Confessions , 4.16.31. 11. Ibid., 1.6.7. 12...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 219–225.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of technology.” But if I cite this tale, it is also because I am not so sure that the “love your monsters” argument has been fully understood, nor that the biblical dimension has been fully grasped. I don't think we want to behave like Dr Frankenstein and confess a small sin we did not commit, in order to hide...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 213–225.
Published: 01 May 2018
.... Stefan Skrimshire’s piece brings these concerns together. In a reading of the nuclear semiotics of deep-earth radioactive waste storage programs, such as Finland’s five-hundred-meter-deep ONKALO facility, and of Michael Madsen’s 2010 documentary Into Eternity , Skrimshire examines how we confess...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 167–170.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., the passion, the concupiscence, the hook, of having and had . This philosophy would have forced us never to confess our attachment to the things capable of giving us properties that we didn’t know we had.” 5 Instead of asking, “What is it?” we could try, “What has it got going for it?”—a question...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 207–211.
Published: 01 May 2014
... ideology of the Nazis, as Charles Bambach has demonstrated. 8 ) And one hallmark of romanticism is suspicion of if not downright hostility toward science. While romanticism has an honored place in my panoply of isms, my intellectual tastes are not so narrowly circumscribed. And let me confess at once...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 171–186.
Published: 01 May 2018
... to the brink, and start finding a new and healthier way of managing ourselves.” 11 While the mysterious gaze of animals confronts humans with their silence and otherness, the data captured through hair snags, blood samples, critter cams, and radio collars coerce unspeaking animals into confession. Jean...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 807–825.
Published: 01 November 2024
... to as mothers, which Chenagtsang links to the Western notion of Mother Earth. 35 Some of them are depicted as holding a “bag of infectious disease” from which they can release viruses as “a kind of biological weapon.” From this angle, rituals that involve confession to and pacification of these mother beings...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 111–127.
Published: 01 May 2013
.... Bourette prefers a gendered seat on the sidelines rather than actually bloodying her hands. After witnessing the slaughter of a pig, she reflects with some anxiety on her participation in the animal's consumption, and confesses, “Truthfully, I can't help feeling a certain gallows empathy as I stare...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 13–33.
Published: 01 May 2014
... confession (as it developed into a disciplinary apparatus) and how it produces a certain objectification of the subject that restricts its freedom. 16 But, in the case of the messianic event, subjectification opens the subject to its own freedom. For Agamben this subjectification produced by the messianic...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 162–182.
Published: 01 March 2024
... did compliment his Indian assistant’s coolness and bravery; the author’s own was implicit. 35 Another soldier’s 1913 memoir of hunting in Kashmir “frankly confess[ed] to feeling not a little uncomfortable” during bear-hunts, and described one instance in which being charged by an angry bear...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 147–167.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., Our Children, Our Grandchildren edited by Dimento Joseph F. C. and Doughman Pamel , 65 - 99 . Cambridge MA . 2007 . Parenti Christian . Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence . New York : Nation Books , 2011 . Pearce Fred . Confessions...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 208–230.
Published: 01 March 2023
... None.” 3. Asma, “Green Guilt” ; Fredericks, “Online Confessions of Eco-Guilt.” 4. Mitchell, “Beyond Biodiversity and Species.” 5. Gibson, “Climate Justice.” 6. Gibson, “Climate Justice.” 7. Tuck and Yang, “Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor.” 8. Tuck...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 371–384.
Published: 01 July 2024
.... Killing the brine shrimp in the plant’s presence recalls a torturer’s ploy of brutalizing one captive to get another captive’s confession. Backster’s experimental methodology constitutes an extension of postcolonial Cold War political practice into scientific conquest of plants’ secret language. Casting...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 226–240.
Published: 01 May 2018
... depression and a debilitating posttraumatic stress disorder from which he has struggled to recover. Nevertheless, he confessed that he had found the fire beautiful, even as he watched it destroy everything the family owned, an experience he subsequently tried to capture in painting (ibid., 157). Similarly...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 181–194.
Published: 01 July 2023
... between nature and culture, even as he argues for maintaining their respective distinctiveness. In fact, like most new materialists, he embeds these domains in the very same substance, confessing explicitly to a materialist monism of sorts. “The entwinement of social and natural relations,” he writes...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 295–309.
Published: 01 May 2018
... that there was nothing out there, but that was cold comfort in the gathering dark. As it was, I got home without seeing or hearing anything—but at a run. I was not the only one among those I met to sense the presence of something out in the Broads. One experienced naturalist confessed he had heard a strange...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 257–272.
Published: 01 May 2018
... in particular was determined to concentrate “on the action frame of reference and the shallow time of everyday life,” confessing that “[t]his may result from a personal characteristic of mine, i.e. a present-focused, hunter-gathererish mind-set, coupled with a certain indifference towards the past...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 680–698.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of an unidentified land (played by the presumably Czech Hynek Cross in clichéd Middle Eastern garb and wearing a ridiculous fake mustache), who assembles a harem of “the magnificent boys of the Occident” and repeatedly confesses his “lust for the golden boy of the West”—evoking Prague’s moniker. 54 Vaguely...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 86–106.
Published: 01 May 2018
... grieves and refuses cures and clearance. Despite the success of his cultivated zaʿatar that others in the village are jealously emulating, his words do not inspire hope, and they do not conjure the figure of the survivor of war. “I miss her,” Abu Jaʿfar confesses, using the feminine object pronoun...
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