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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 427–460.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and creative arts scene in wider Oceania that works across these themes. Another is historian Tom Brooking’s interdisciplinary course on the entwined natural and cultural histories of New Zealand at the University of Otago. It brings together scholars across the humanities and sciences who teach with a range...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 247–279.
Published: 01 November 2019
... its own material culture of borderlining the airfield in order to cope with the environments into which it was initially inserted. In Frankfurt, this local border culture is closely related to the history of the city forest, a remainder of the hunting grounds of eighteenth-century aristocracy...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 183–200.
Published: 01 March 2024
... for cultural ideas about nature, natural history, national belonging, and environmental change opens up potential for a mediation of national parks that is not dependent on visitor footfall. 41 The sense of cultural identity invoked by national parks can be local, but it is also often national, refracted...
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Images of Pollution and the Pollution of Images: Postindustrial Landscapes on and through Film
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 107–128.
Published: 01 March 2025
... of postindustrial landscapes through their entanglement with the history and materiality of photography. Drawing on elemental media theory as well as the history of science, it traces two key moments in the history of photography through two material components: bitumen and uranium. By suggesting the visual...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 223–234.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Gianfranco Selgas; Manuel Silva-Ferrer Abstract How might a Latin American cultural critique of energy reconceive the relevance of cultural history and aesthetics considering the energy regimes that underwrite it? This special section explores various modes of examining, looking...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 117–146.
Published: 01 May 2013
... American history and an intellectual history of radical politics. Following these threads has led me beyond the disciplinary confines of history and into larger debates about the cultural politics of wilderness. In this article I argue that the critical wilderness paradigm currently reigning both...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 301–322.
Published: 01 November 2021
... BY-NC-ND 4.0). animal studies invasive species cultural history environmental history narrative studies On March 6, 1890, a wealthy socialite named Eugene Schieffelin released one hundred common starlings ( Sturnus vulgaris ) into Central Park in New York City. The release was part...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 62–84.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Fiona R. Cameron; Ben Dibley; David S. Ellsworth Abstract Historical, cultural, and technological collections are routinely put to work to illustrate narratives of progress, history, and identity. They can also convey new stories that articulate how cultural objects might serve as material...
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“These Lusting, Incestuous, Perverse Creatures”: A Phytopoetic History of Plants and Sexuality
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 602–617.
Published: 01 November 2022
... phytopoetic history of plants and sexuality, it demonstrates with the help of literature how plants have been shaping human culture—in this context, the sociocultural norms and understandings of sex, gender, and sexuality. Moving from vegetal visions of virtuous, virginal women-plants and their corruption...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 129–153.
Published: 01 March 2025
... ): 723 – 26 . Kimmerer Robin Wall . Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses . Corvallis : Oregon State University Press , 2003 . Kohn Eduardo . How Forests Think . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2013 . Konig Charles . “ Rock Specimens...
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Oceanic Curating
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 680–691.
Published: 01 November 2024
... to respond to the plurality of oceans and their communities, histories, geographies, and ecologies, demonstrating that such activity does not merely reflect but itself constitutes recent oceanic cultural and theoretical currents. curating exhibitions museums blue humanities critical ocean studies...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 171–201.
Published: 01 May 2014
... the growing use of aerial images to chart the “disappearance of the outside” and to advocate for wilderness areas in the Global South as a “cultural heritage of mankind.” The confluence of geophysical tipping points, universalist history, and political struggle over decolonization resulted in eco-images...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 132–166.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and representability of sea ontologies, wet matter, and transcorporeal engagements with the more-than-human world. This work generally focuses on a universalized ocean (as nonhuman nature) rather than a geographically and culturally specific place (as history). The authors’ work turns the visual focus from the surface...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 217–232.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., delving into its history, its epistemological preconditions, and its representational capacity. In this essay, I suggest a connection between this attraction to a supposedly outdated medium and the representational challenges raised by the model of the Anthropocene. A first example offers Sebastião...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 181–203.
Published: 01 November 2017
... , 2017 . Carey Mark . “ Beyond Weather: The Culture and Politics of Climate History .” In Oxford Handbook of Environmental History , edited by Isenberg Andrew , 23 – 51 . New York : Oxford University Press , 2014 . Carey Mark . “ The History of Ice: How Glaciers Became...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 226–240.
Published: 01 May 2018
... described the blaze as “unprecedented.” This essay examines that claim in the light of contextualizing environmental histories and finds that although such firestorms are rare, they are far from unprecedented; they are in fact a necessary part of the cycle of regeneration in certain types of eucalypt forest...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 590–602.
Published: 01 November 2024
... the separability of phyla, and unsettling the false binary between nature and culture. Drawing on process philosophy, art, literature, histories of fabrics, Black studies, queered biology, ecofeminism, and the continuum of naturecultures, this article experiments with the playful patterning of writing and voices...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 447–472.
Published: 01 November 2018
... ethnocentrism colonialism In the context of comprehensive efforts within the environmental humanities to overcome the legacy of a narrow, humanist conception of culture as something elevated above the natural world, this article takes up the largely overlooked history of the idea that humans are more...
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Theorizing the Gay Frog
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 661–679.
Published: 01 November 2022
... neglects the central theme of humor. The appeal of the frog also merits further consideration. This article outlines a genealogy of the gay frog, situating Jones’s rant in the longer histories of environmental health, sexuality, and cultural panic described by queer ecologists. I argue that the potency...
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The Apocalyptic Herbarium: Mourning and Transformation in Anselm Kiefer’s Secret of the Ferns
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 391–413.
Published: 01 November 2021
... on the visual practices of natural history and the cultural associations of a plant tied to the magic of invisibility. Kiefer’s mode of presentation references the herbarium, a core practice of early modern natural history that continues to underpin our modern scientific understanding of plants. At the same...
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