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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 265–283.
Published: 01 July 2022
... and living well across species difference. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with a cheesemaker in southern Australia, this article asks what it means to take seriously goats as gastronomic subjects and to consider what a ruminant gastronomy might look like within the web of creaturely relations that make...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 602–617.
Published: 01 November 2022
...: “The best would be to eradicate all plants on the entire earth, to destroy these lusting, incestuous, perverse creatures root and branch.” 30 Turning from plants to the political subtext of the stories for a moment, the law certainly attempted to respond to this request with the persecution of gay men...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 113–123.
Published: 01 May 2014
... for the first year at the aquarium. In 2008 he took two small bites of fish, and again in 2009, but stopped eating completely thereafter. 1 For five years he refused all food, and every attempt to coax the creature into eating failed. Then, one morning his caretaker, Takeya Moritaki, found Giant Isopod No.1...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 501–506.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of the commentators. And hoping this beautiful creature will now find new communities and kin with which to begin her own adventures into worlds, past, present, and future. To put it bluntly, the Manifesto does not engage with gender and class. Not explicitly at least—but when what is at stake is the adamant...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 454–474.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Michelle Bastian Abstract This article contributes to work within extinction studies by asking how one might “story” extinctions of creatures that have been, and will remain, unknown. It grapples with losses that have been unrecorded, unmissed, and unrecognizable via the “lively ethography...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 370–387.
Published: 01 May 2020
... recognized species, and, second, an endangered creature warranting protection. Nessie’s nonphysical existence is argued to reveal the ways in which living things are ancillary to the discourses through which they become protected. Specifically, this article demonstrates how Nessie’s proposed endangerment...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 181–200.
Published: 01 May 2021
... the spectators’ immediate emphatic and empathetic reactions to the animal creatures on-screen. By evoking affective responses below the visible and audible registers, the films place the human animal body both in proximity to and at a distance from the nonhuman animal, revealing ontological ties as well...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 29–48.
Published: 01 March 2022
...L. D. Mattson; Jeremy Gordon Abstract Reimagining human-nature relationships in the climate change era conjures mutants, creatures from the deep that help surface modes of becoming for a drenched world of rising tides, plastic oceans, and soaked cities. Re-imaging deep, embodied relations...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 438–456.
Published: 01 July 2022
... the necessity of these crossings, the kinship and well-being that movement sustains? The essay explores these questions through a series of meditations on the monarch butterfly, a creature that has become in recent years the symbol of a more expansive vision of North American belonging. Anand Pandian describes...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 30–51.
Published: 01 November 2023
... detection is conceptualized as a sensory task through which dogs and humans intra-act, both together and apart. Recognizing this partial connection allows us to rethink how humans and other creatures are ontologically reconstituted and how overlapping histories of warfare and humanitarianism, legacies...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 93–109.
Published: 01 May 2013
... her work into dialogue with some of my Australian Aboriginal teachers. More specifically, I focus on developing an enlarged account of active listening, considering it as the work participants engage in as they inter-act with other sentient creatures. I take a country or place based perspective...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 213–225.
Published: 01 May 2018
... and creatures. The introduction to this special section builds on scholarship in the environmental humanities concerning the ongoing inheritance of biological and geologic processes that stretch back into the deep past as well as the opening up of multiple vistas of the futures. Rather than understanding deep...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 447–472.
Published: 01 November 2018
... not to some immaterial quality of mind or soul, but rather to the distinctiveness of human anatomy. It was, we will argue, the body—and, above all, the head—which provided the basis of a modern attempt to establish that humans were creatures of a categorically different order from all other animals. More...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 321–345.
Published: 01 May 2020
... as archetypal illustrations of salvaged and synthesized anabiotic creatures. De/extinction is presented as a liminal state of being, both living and dead, both fact and fiction, a realm that we have growing access to through the proliferation of synthetic biology and cryopreservation. The article concludes...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 346–369.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Charlotte Wrigley Abstract Scottish wildcat conservation is a tricky business, dogged by rampant hybridization, habitat loss, illegal poaching, and, more recently, calls from ecologists to declare the creature functionally extinct. While conservation bodies refuse to declare the fight over...
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in “Bringing Humanity Full Circle Back into the Sea”: Homo aquaticus , Evolution, and the Ocean
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 2. Cover of Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson’s Undersea Fleet , which shows two cadet divers from the Sub Sea Academy in the foreground and a woman riding an underwater creature behind them. Cover art by Ed “EMSH” Emshwiller; courtesy of the Emshwiller family. Copy provided
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 285–290.
Published: 01 November 2016
... with a love for all creatures, who models another possible world for the pope. Saint Francis, however, is a complex figure. One can see, in his passionate love for other creatures, the flicker of a desire to convert and domesticate them. The creatures who populate the body of this feminized sister Earth...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 291–297.
Published: 01 November 2016
... known as the Canticle of the Creatures ), composed by Saint Francis in his native Umbrian tongue in 1274. The encyclical opens: “Laudato si’, mi’ Signore”—“Praise be to you, my Lord.” In the words of this beautiful canticle, Saint Francis of Assisi reminds us that our common home is like a sister...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 263–269.
Published: 01 November 2016
... which affects the excluded just as it quickly reduces things to rubbish” (§22). Industrialism has turned the God-given vocation of humans as makers against the intrinsic laws of nature, including that nature does not waste and that all creatures in nature are connected (§42). Francis observes critically...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 270–276.
Published: 01 November 2016
... as the self-assertion of human freedom without acknowledging human obligations or natural finitude (§6). For a disruption of the harmony between Creator, humanity, and creation as a whole by “refusing to acknowledge our creaturely limitations” and presuming to take the place of God becomes manifest in a quest...
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