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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 109–127.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Elizabeth Leane; Charne Lavery; Meredith Nash Abstract This article examines the role of pandemics and viruses in cultural perceptions of Antarctica over the past century. In the popular imagination, Antarctica has often been framed as a place of purity, refuge, and isolation. In a series...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 280–301.
Published: 01 November 2019
...John Brannigan; Frances Ryfield; Tasman Crowe; David Cabana Abstract “Flow” is a key concept in our era of liquid modernity, across a broad range of ecological, economic, and cultural discourses. In this essay, we examine the material flows integral to naturecultures through the specific case study...
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Published: 01 May 2017
Figure 1. Float at a 2008 GJMM cultural performance in Chowrasta. Photo by the author More
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 427–460.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., and how EH teaching is taking place. This part highlights some key regional variability in the uptake of teaching in this area, emphasizing important differences in cultural and pedagogical contexts. The second part is a critical engagement with some of the key challenges and opportunities...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 661–679.
Published: 01 November 2024
... with plants not just to restructure incumbent energy systems but also to reshape underlying energy cultures. A closer attunement to plants, the article concludes, could enable society to imagine and embrace new habits of energy consumption. Such habits would reify not continuous expansion or growth, nor even...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 603–623.
Published: 01 November 2024
... discussions of the “extractive view” as its starting point, this article focuses on the role of visual culture in prospecting. It investigates how the search for resources generates a visual culture of prospecting and a visual culture about prospecting, whether through aerial views of resource frontiers...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 151–168.
Published: 01 May 2016
... noted, central to this re-thinking is unsettling the colonial nature/culture divide in Western epistemology. In this article, through a series of situated, small, everyday stories from childcare centres, we relate raccoon-child-educator encounters in order to consider how raccoons' repeated boundary...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 173–178.
Published: 01 May 2020
... This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Terrestrial, bipedal, air breathing, and poorly waterproofed, how can humans fathom the bottom of the sea? This article was composed by an anthropologist, a cultural theorist, a philosopher, a coastal...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 414–432.
Published: 01 November 2021
... between nature and culture, humans and nonhumans have no efficiency at planetary scale. Many scholars of the environmental humanities have therefore engaged with the Anthropocene in search for more relational ontologies that account for the manifold entanglements between humans and earthly processes...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 699–717.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., we should challenge a sex-gender system that keeps a menstruator’s intimacy with their body shameful, and change the culture that reproduces invisibility around women’s and trans people’s sexual and reproductive bodies. Flushing a plastic applicator means we don’t have to touch ourselves or admit...
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Published: 01 May 2019
Figure 1. Can writing function as a productive hormone disruptor within larger cultural narrative sequences? This is my urine. Its metabolites are messages. More
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 May 2020
... to the World .” December 29 , 2017 . www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/press/releases/toxics/2017/Chinas-ban-on-imports-of-24-types-of-waste-is-a-wake-up-call-to-the-world---Greenpeace/ . Hepp Andreas , and Couldry Nick . “ Introduction: Media Events in Globalized Media Cultures .” In Media...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 388–405.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of the enormity of the anthropogenic extinction event in which we are all bound. This article argues that we are living in an era of ecocide, where the degradation of biodiversity and eradication of species go hand-in-hand with the degradation and eradication of nonmodern culture and identity, and it explores...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 496–500.
Published: 01 November 2020
... authorial voices, readership, and empirical foci in an attempt to do justice to the multiplicity of environmental cultures. Put directly: we will prioritize heterodox studies that draw on noncanonical texts, films, or stories and explore less heard of times and places. Evolving from the origins...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Coinciding with the release of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth , the commercial was one of many volleys in a larger mediated struggle to undermine the legitimacy of climate change science and policy—one that significantly embroiled US cultural politics in the effort. However, unlike the more familiar tropes...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 301–322.
Published: 01 November 2021
... suggests humanistic methods can serve as useful tools for understanding the value-laden narratives underpinning environmental attitudes and practices today. animal studies invasive species cultural history environmental history narrative studies On March 6, 1890, a wealthy socialite named...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 216–218.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... One of the specific things we decided early on was to “seek to broaden the geography of the journal’s authorial voices, readership, and empirical foci, in an attempt to do justice to the multiplicity of environmental cultures.” 3 One of the conversations I had early in 2020 was with Bethany...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 162–181.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of a species relate to themselves and others—their essences, their cultures, their ways of being. Brett Buchanan points out that philosophical ethology and, by extension, multispecies studies, concerns itself with real animals, not representations of them: “and addresses such issues as animal subjectivity...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 89–109.
Published: 01 March 2022
... the spread of pathogenic surface microbes that can harm plants. 17 With the arrival of Polynesian peoples to these islands around one thousand years ago, snails entered into a new set of relationships. In varied ways, they wove themselves into the lives and culture of these islands’ first peoples...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 129–144.
Published: 01 March 2022
... France, 1975–76 , translated by Macey David and edited by Bertani Mauro and Fontana Alessandro . New York : Picador , 2003 . Heise Ursula K. Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2016...