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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 24–36.
Published: 01 May 2016
... in an enlarged world. These practices cannot be reduced to a livestock economy: shepherds consider herding a work of transformation and ecological recuperation—of the land, of the sheep, of ways of being together. Learning the “arts of living on a damaged planet,” as Anna Tsing has termed it, humans and animals...
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Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 3. The damaged whale skeleton and cast in the rubble of the Whale Hall, after February 3, 1945. Historische Bild- und Schriftgutsammlungen: MfN, HBSB, ZM B VI 233. Courtesy of Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. More
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 3–26.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Bradley M. Jones Abstract This article explores the cultivation of life in ruins. At the foothills of Appalachia, I focus on a permaculture farmer—Sally of Clearwater Creek—fostering arts of (making a) living on a damaged planet. Ethnography in the Anthropocene requires tending and attending...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 301–322.
Published: 01 November 2021
... mentioned by Shakespeare. This article uses the methods of literary history to investigate this popular anecdote. Today starlings are much despised as an invasive species that displaces native birds and does almost a billion dollars worth of damage to agriculture annually. Because of the starling’s pest...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 141–163.
Published: 01 March 2023
... and more-than-human relations damaged by the interconnected dynamics of structural violence and decades of war. The author presents the environmental humanities-based methodologies that emerged in the collective process to elaborate the memory of the Mandur. The article also discusses the importance...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 151–168.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw; Fikile Nxumalo Abstract Current times of anthropogenically damaged landscapes call us to re-think human and nonhuman relations and consider multiple possibilities for alternative and more sustainable futures. As many environmental and Indigenous humanities scholars have...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 171–194.
Published: 01 May 2014
.... Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among winemakers in South Australia I examine pasteurisation, a killing practice that acts not on organisms but on the fluids within which they live. Examining the pasteurisation of wine damaged by the fungus Botrytis cinerea, I argue that this practice shifts the locus...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 41–67.
Published: 01 May 2014
... home—signified by the prefix “eco”—brings with it a critical expectation for the musical academy to retreat from bland talk about a “sense of place.” Based on the premise that damaged ecologies are a matter of concern to many people, Indigenous and Settler; and building on the late Val Plumwood's...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 579–583.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of these questions, see Carse, “Ecobiopolitics.” 6. Even if it is never realized, the potential frontier, project, or damage has material implications; see Tsing, Friction . 5. On the significance of anticipation as a mode of planning and governance, see Adams et al., “Anticipation...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 465–466.
Published: 01 November 2019
... futures in the face of anthropogenic damage in Chile. Hence, the meeting intended neither to discuss the scientific validity of the Anthropocene as a geological era, nor to assess the damages inflicted on the Earth by human activities. The thinkshop, in this sense, was not neutral: it assumed from the get...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 137–151.
Published: 01 May 2019
... This is one way in which the Arctic serves as a vanguard of the planetary “new normal”: an early window on the realities of life on a “damaged planet,” 2 on modes of terrestrial life that have been altered, 3 or recomposed, through the cellular bioaccumulation of microplastics, 4 heavy metals...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 403–421.
Published: 01 July 2024
... this as “what we do now creates damage that hits decades later,” and because we are not able to imagine the effects this will have on future peoples “nothing much gets done on their behalf.” 2 Thus the tragedy is that an unmarked “we” cannot see the impacts of what we are doing until much later down the line...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 475–491.
Published: 01 November 2020
... and caring for humans and other creatures. 33 Let’s find collective mechanisms to cultivate what Tsing and colleagues call “arts of living on a damaged planet” by growing intergenerational awareness of interdependencies. 34 But instead of only welcoming “nonbiological kin” to join in these risky...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 129–132.
Published: 01 May 2016
...-commercial purposes, provided the original work is cited and is not altered or transformed. One of the driving methodological and pedagogical concerns of the Common World Childhoods Research Collective, to which we belong, is the question of how to deal with the mess of the damaged worlds that we...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 213–225.
Published: 01 May 2018
... for transformation or at least for recuperation and collaborative survival in a damaged but not yet dead world. 18 The prospect here is of an open future, not defined by the inevitability of progress: “Moderns always had a future . . . but never a chance, until recently that is, to turn to what I could call...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 426–432.
Published: 01 July 2024
... and regulatory frameworks that support biodiversity offsetting perpetuate damaging nature-culture “hyper-separations” that proliferate slow violence in diverse contexts. 7 Compensating for biodiversity loss with “offsets” is commonly traced to the 1971 Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 233–238.
Published: 01 May 2016
... and is not altered or transformed. To the dismay of those who first proposed it, the Anthropocene is being reframed as an event to be celebrated rather than lamented and feared. 1 Instead of final proof of the damage done by techno-industrial hubris, the ‘ecomodernists' welcome the new epoch as a sign...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 287–290.
Published: 01 May 2014
... what the evidence tells us. 11 Gazing at the broken compels us to cast light on the “shadow places,” to dramatise the “slow violence” of grinding ecological damage. 12 When we smooth out the wrinkles, when we leave people feeling comfortable, when we strive for the transcendental, we risk...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 385–402.
Published: 01 July 2024
... the industry hide damages to the environment and repressive labor practices, made sure the lack of understanding around actual remaining and future oil reserves would not influence oil prices, though volatile they remained nonetheless, and, most fundamentally of all to our current situation, hid the knowledge...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 277–281.
Published: 01 May 2014
... ecological systems relies on interspecies connectivities, issues like extinction, biodiversity and conservation become epistemic—if we lose a species, we might irrevocably damage a multispecies way of knowing through becoming-with, diminishing what Mick Smith has termed the “species of possibilities...
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