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in Submerged Bodies: The Tidalectics of Representability and the Sea in Caribbean Art
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 2. Jean-Ulrick Désert, The Waters of Kiskéya/Quisqueya , 2017. Mixed media on vellum, 108 × 72 in. Photo by Luis Zavala. Courtesy of the artist.
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in Submerged Bodies: The Tidalectics of Representability and the Sea in Caribbean Art
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 3. Jean-Ulrick Désert, The Waters of Kiskéya/Quisqueya , 2017, detail.
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in Submerged Bodies: The Tidalectics of Representability and the Sea in Caribbean Art
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 4. Jean-Ulrick Désert, The Waters of Kiskéya/Quisqueya , 2017, detail. Photo by Luis Zavala.
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in Submerged Bodies: The Tidalectics of Representability and the Sea in Caribbean Art
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 5. Jean-Ulrick Désert, The Waters of Kiskéya/Quisqueya , 2017, detail.
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in Submerged Bodies: The Tidalectics of Representability and the Sea in Caribbean Art
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 6. Jean-Ulrick Désert, The Waters of Kiskéya/Quisqueya , 2017, detail.
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in Submerged Bodies: The Tidalectics of Representability and the Sea in Caribbean Art
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 7. Jean-Ulrick Désert, The Waters of Kiskéya/Quisqueya , 2017, detail.
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 49–70.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Pierre du Plessis Abstract This article explores the skilled arts of tracking and gathering as methods for noticing and theorizing multispecies landscapes in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana. Tracking is typically used to describe a practice of following animals, usually for hunting, whereas gathering...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 69–84.
Published: 01 May 2012
... for its future. This paper explores four key drivers of conservation initiatives: place, landscape, biodiversity and livelihood, and how these shape environmental management in the Desert Channels region of south-western Queensland and in the Quantock hills in Somerset, England. The aim is to show how...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 131–157.
Published: 01 May 2015
... writing as a touchstone, my essay foregrounds the environmental features of the (re)location: the extreme desert weather, the mountain vistas, the incarceree-created rock gardens, the reconstructed barracks, guard tower, and barbed wire fence, and the cemetery/monument. I bring together concepts from...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 132–166.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Figure 2. Jean-Ulrick Désert, The Waters of Kiskéya/Quisqueya , 2017. Mixed media on vellum, 108 × 72 in. Photo by Luis Zavala. Courtesy of the artist. ...
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in In Anticipation of Extirpation: How Ancient Peoples Rationalized and Responded to Postglacial Sea Level Rise
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 1. View of the Bunda Cliffs west of Ceduna along the seaward side of the Nullarbor Desert in southern Australia. Photograph by Bob Brown; used with permission.
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 180–193.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of both symptoms, the dump is an outgrowth of nihilism in all its positive splendor. Give the floor to Nietzsche’s Zarathustra: “The desert grows: woe to the one who harbors deserts! [ Die Wüste wächst: weh Dem, der Wüsten birgt! ”] 4 The global dump is a desert extending on land and in the hypoxic...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of the global north: the desert, the flood, the mediated disaster. 9 These forms show the varied ways in which the future marks the present, not simply as imagined fantasy but as an aesthetic expression through which audiences encounter catastrophes that are yet to come. These affective formations are also...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 343–347.
Published: 01 May 2018
... invited to participate in a program of consultation on extinct and disappearing desert homelands mammals, part of a larger two-way knowledge-sharing project between Western science and traditional Indigenous ecological knowledge in central and southern Australia. 4 The Elders were hosting our visit...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 309–324.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Frontiers.” 1 Both events aimed to look at how the frontiers of life continue to shift and expand in remarkable ways. Biological organisms have been discovered in the world’s driest deserts as well as in subglacial lakes and in hot springs, while airborne microbes have been captured in the stratosphere...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 145–158.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and Spain and as far north as Germany, covering fields and roofs with a thin but pervasive layer of nuclear dust. 1 Originating in the Sahara Desert, the storm carried its sixty-year-old intercontinental payload across the Mediterranean from nuclear weapons tests conducted in the French-colonized...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 1.
Published: 01 November 2023
... in the Kalahari,” which appeared in the March 2022 issue. Du Plessis examines the hunt for the Kalahari desert truffle as an tracking experience that attends to landscape assemblages. His ethnographic work with Indigenous interlocuters emphasizes multispecies landscapes as enacted stories of interaction...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 407–430.
Published: 01 November 2020
... backed with rubble, utterly deserted.” 100 These scenes reveal the necropolitics of capitalism: office buildings full of the skeletons of the poisoned, still sitting at desks, surrounded by dust. 101 Yet the Death Zone harbors conditions for new life to flourish: a Chinese Tree of Heaven (typically...
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The War between Amaranth and Soy: Interspecies Resistance to Transgenic Soy Agriculture in Argentina
Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 204–229.
Published: 01 November 2017
... wholly based on biological and automated machine technologies, almost without direct contact between people and plants. As we travel from Buenos Aires to Rosario, then to San Jorge and Córdoba, and later through Salta and Chaco toward Formosa, we are surrounded by what locals call “green desert...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 113–131.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Figure 1. View of the Bunda Cliffs west of Ceduna along the seaward side of the Nullarbor Desert in southern Australia. Photograph by Bob Brown; used with permission. ...
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