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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 478–494.
Published: 01 July 2024
... experience of polluted mining and refining landscapes. I was born in Toronto’s South Riverdale neighborhood, in the shadow of the lead smelter Canada Metal Co. We eventually moved to a place where the soil was contaminated with high levels of arsenic. The toxic soil was eventually smothered in situ, buried...
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Published: 01 July 2023
Figure 2. Temporary storage facility in Iitate for black bags of contaminated soil, 2017. Photograph by the author. More
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 512–528.
Published: 01 July 2024
... how contaminated environments like the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, where the Babushkas live, invite an interpretative move that models what Paul Ricoeur and, more recently, Rita Felski have problematized as the hermeneutics of suspicion. Such a move involves a mistrust of what is at the surface, calling...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 89–105.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of environmental salvation. However, these areas are also home to contaminated biota that migrate beyond refuge boundaries, inspiring biological vector control campaigns that frame nuclear nature as a threat that must be contained. How can these environments simultaneously embody ruin and redemption, and what work...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 25–43.
Published: 01 March 2023
... knowledge useful for protecting our planet and other celestial bodies from harmful contamination. This article critically examines astroenvironmentalism as discussed within astrobiology and attempts to rescue it from becoming a principle of border creation in otherworldly ecologies. To do so, it merges...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 169–190.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... Some inhuman animals seek out and uncover our wastes. These ‘trash animals' choke on, eat, defecate, are contaminated with, play games with, have sex on, and otherwise live out their lives on and in our formal and informal dumpsites. In southern Canada's sanitary landfills, waste management typically...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 187–212.
Published: 01 May 2018
... in territories that have been, and are being, transformed under the weighty history of contamination and that are lived in and lived with by generations of beings (human and otherwise), we call in our concluding remarks for an enhanced pedagogy of care born of our inherited pasts and of engagement, interest...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 86–106.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Vasiliki Touhouliotis Abstract Six years after the cease-fire that halted the 2006 war between Lebanon and Israel, southern Lebanese indicted the remains of Israel’s weapons for contaminating their lands, stunting their crops, and making them sick. Against local and international discourses...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 152–173.
Published: 01 May 2019
... scales: from the boundedness of a single cell, to a single organism encased in skin, to a body enclosed in a hazmat suit, to architecture and surrounding space, city and hazardous-waste landfill site, contaminated and safe, local and global. Asbestos shows that there is no spatial or temporal “outside...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 280–301.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and reprocessing plant at Sellafield in 1947. By following the “flows” of pleasure, emotion, energy, and waste through Seascale, we explore the legacies of nuclear contamination for coastal communities, within a broader regime of the commodification of nature. This essay emerges from a transdisciplinary research...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 21–44.
Published: 01 May 2021
... and invisible, proximity and dispersal, and containment and contamination. Without purporting to expose the hidden and without reproducing deterministic narratives of petrochemical dominance, Orff promotes ways of apprehending oil’s pasts, presents, and futures. There is an obvious reason for beginning...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 528–531.
Published: 01 November 2018
... foods. A half-century after the Vietnam-American War, these battlefields are rarely “wastelands,” but more frequently rice fields and orchards, markets, and schoolyards. These contaminated grounds are fertile; numerous wild and cultivated foods grow here, including bitter herbs, ginger, limes...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 433–440.
Published: 01 July 2024
... with voices from the civil rights and social justice struggle, such as W. E. B. Du Bois, exploring how these actors continued their fight despite persistent racism. 6 As scholars working on the global dimensions of waste, contamination, and hazardous trade—topics that at first sight do not readily lend...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 341–360.
Published: 01 July 2022
... , Rutherford Stephanie , and Sandberg L. Anders , 173 – 86 . New York : Routledge , 2016 . Armiero Marco , and Fava Anna . “ Of Humans, Sheep, and Dioxin: A History of Contamination and Transformation in Acerra, Italy .” Capitalism Nature Socialism 27 , no. 2 ( 2016 ): 67 – 82...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 39–61.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Figure 2. Temporary storage facility in Iitate for black bags of contaminated soil, 2017. Photograph by the author. ...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 23–50.
Published: 01 May 2020
... increasingly ephemeral, concrete hopes emerged in this postindustrial landscape as the hydrology and topography were reengineered with the goal of containing legacy pollution. The site contained over 160 hectares of contaminated waste that included power station ash, demolition rubble, asbestos, domestic...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 402–426.
Published: 01 November 2019
...: contaminated creek water is rerouted into a pond lined with limestone, which naturally filters dissolved iron from water, and is then discharged downhill into other ponds where it is treated further. A thousand trees were strategically planted beside the ponds so that in the fall, changing leaves, depending...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 216–238.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of parasite, “genocidal, fascistic, and xenophobic logics” resonate. 19 Hence, the trans body, rendered as parasitic, is framed as a threat to cisheteronormative future generations via genetic contamination. Such a problematic interpretation is reflected in the still-current practices of compulsory...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 422–425.
Published: 01 July 2024
... and livelihoods. Dust, as Liane Pearce put it in her story of the broken ecology of Australia’s outback mining town Broken Hill, is “the land’s way of speaking back.” 12 And still, people cannot but go on living with the dust of their home ecologies—in “contaminated kinship.” Existential boundaries are being...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 104–118.
Published: 01 November 2023
... was on hazardous waste. During the 1970s and 1980s a mix of hazardous waste, including lead batteries, unwanted pesticides, oil-contaminated soil, and incinerator ash, was routinely dumped directly into its open pits. 12 The surrounding areas and bodies of water were consequently polluted with high levels...
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