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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 554–570.
Published: 01 November 2024
... fungi to reassess the novel’s scenes of ruination, recognizing that decomposition is a condition of possibility for new growth. [email protected] © 2024 Hannah Rachel Cole 2024 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 265–269.
Published: 01 March 2024
... Parable as Told from Southern Africa . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2019 . Lyons Kristina M. Vital Decomposition: Soil Practitioners and Life Politics . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2020 . McMurtry John . The Cancer Stage of Capitalism . London : Pluto , 1999...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 125–148.
Published: 01 May 2014
... that becomes the appropriate site for the normative question. Only your tinkering, your on-going effort to interfere with the decomposition in such a way as to compost your leftovers, can impinge on the ‘good’ or ‘bad’ result of your bin. Appropriating Strathern's quote, we can say that, in vermicomposting...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 3–26.
Published: 01 May 2019
... with the assistance of aerobic bacteria, fungi, protozoa, earthworms, and other nonhuman others. Decomposition in the service of recomposition, compost is a multispecies cycling of nutrients and energy; a paradigm of circularity that stands in clear contrast to reductionist, unilinear thinking. Compost refers...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 1–18.
Published: 01 July 2023
... small-scale transformation: 9 For instance, in Argentina, human protestors and the highly adapted “super weed” amaranth have joined forces to resist soy monocultures. 10 And in the Columbian Amazon, farmers compost leaf litter to create “vital decomposition” in poisoned landscapes. 11 So far...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 321–340.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., deep temporality of processes such as decomposition and soil formation, which are advanced by myriad nonhuman beings whose behaviors and relationships are recalcitrant to human mastery. 8 Thus, notwithstanding the lower deforestation rates achieved under recent CSA programs, Amazonian agro-industry...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 39–61.
Published: 01 July 2023
.... Harada’s experiments demonstrate a different orientation to innovation because he entangles himself in the more-than-human temporalities in soil. He found at first that villagers would plow farmlands and pastures before winter to turn organic matter into soil, thereby accelerating its decomposition...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 233–236.
Published: 01 March 2022
... arboromorphism is not immobilizing (“who would be foolish enough to call a plant lazy?,” she demands), nor does it result in the decomposition of social ties. 8 Instead, it expands them, the outsider, the other-than-human becoming neighbor, community, friend. Drawing from Roy’s philosophical concept...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 460–463.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... To accept something of the world we inhabit, of which we are inseparably a part, means to accept an ineluctable decomposition, a death and continual dying. And yet, fecundity is not just the hallmark of the nonhuman animal or plant world—human life is fecund as well. Our own bodies are objects...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 235–239.
Published: 01 November 2016
... engineers” whose browsing and grazing will restore decomposition. Beavers, cows, and horses are charged with felling or damaging trees, making space for rot. And it is hoped that these animals might be left to die in the wild, with their carcasses returning dead meat vital for carrion-eating insects...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 141–163.
Published: 01 March 2023
.... 14. See Presidencia de la República, “Con la puesta en marcha.” 15. Lyons, “Rights of the Amazon.” 16. CENSAT Agua Viva, M e moria ambiental y reconciliación . 17. Shaw, Waldrof, and Hazen, Local Transitional Justice . 18. Lyons, Vital Decomposition ; CNMH...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 180–193.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of perception, anymore: perceptual thresholds shift upward as radiant energy and strong vibrations are dumped on sense organs nonstop. Just as the foulest parts of the global dump dodge decomposition and do not smell of rotting, and just as the dump’s companion affect is the apathetic whatever...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 419–437.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., Lien, and Ween, “Introduction.” 23. Ingold, Perception of the Environment , 87 . 24. Ingold, Perception of the Environment , 86 . 25. Lyons, Vital Decomposition , 33 . See also Salazar et al., “Thinking with Soils,” 8 . 26. Sheild Johanson, “Mountain Ate His Heart...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 454–474.
Published: 01 November 2020
... stages of whale falls and their “different persistence times” create “time lags,” 61 or what are more ominously known as “extinction debts.” 62 These lags are produced due to the diachronic nature of the decomposition of whale remains, where each successional stage is affected at different times...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 113–123.
Published: 01 May 2014
... separating out and diffusion of what is brought together. As they put it, as “the togetherness of eating and feeding brings differences together it does so not in making them similar again, or in resolving them in a common world, but in the transformation and destruction that digestion and decomposition...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 190–204.
Published: 01 May 2020
... .” Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 19 , no. 2 ( 2014 ): 212 – 36 . Lyons Kristina Marie . 2016 . “ Decomposition as Life Politics: Soils, Selva, and Small Farmers under the Gun of the US–Colombia War on Drugs .” Cultural Anthropology 31 , no. 1 ( 2016 ): 56 – 81...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 250–266.
Published: 01 May 2020
... every crack, dust and organic matter forming accumulated layers in every street corner, and processes of sedimentation, decomposition, and erosion taking place everywhere. They regarded urban surfaces—sidewalks, gutters, parking lots, what have you—as soil in becoming. The idea of becoming links...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 217–232.
Published: 01 May 2014
... indicates a glacier that is going to be absorbed by the sea), or if this penguin is just going hunting, mating or whatever penguins do in the water, one of their natural elements of life. Neither can we see if the glacier is in a state of accelerated decomposition caused by climate change, caused bythe...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 265–283.
Published: 01 July 2022
...-species gastronomy is devoid of hierarchy or power, particularly where agriculture is concerned. 39 Farming necessitates, at least to some extent, the coercion of life for human appetites along with processes of death, killing, or decomposition, even when these practices are threaded through...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 284–302.
Published: 01 July 2022
... a specific set of methodologies and tools. Although some important processes have explicit microbial components—for instance fermentation, decomposition, 32 and certain forms of illness—microbes are, for the most part, invisible; we cannot directly observe their behavior as the ethologist might observe...
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