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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 241–264.
Published: 01 July 2022
... and desire. It does so to diagnose the threat of extinction anxieties and consider their material and political consequences for impedances to caring for nonhuman life and their flourishing. The article is developed through the empirical case of Arrojadoa marylanae , an endangered species of cactus in Bahia...
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Toxic Erotics and Bad Ecosex at Windermere Basin
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 699–717.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Astrida Neimanis Abstract How do settler colonialism, control of women’s and differently gendered bodies, sex, industry, pollution—but also pleasure, love, care, desire, bodily autonomy, and survival—cleave together and apart in the inland wetland of Windermere Basin park? Starting...
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Decentralized Production and Affective Economies: Theorizing the Ecological Implications of Localism
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 107–127.
Published: 01 May 2016
... into closer proximity to production processes. However, posing the problem and the promise of different regimes of production in terms of information assumes fixed preferences and desires on the part of individual consumers and producers, and it ascribes to the non-human components of the production process...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 641–660.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of desire occurs along the deep time line of natural history but also a contested terrain of captivity that can cancel any claim to atemporal naturalness. [email protected] © 2022 Marianna Szczygielska 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative...
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“These Lusting, Incestuous, Perverse Creatures”: A Phytopoetic History of Plants and Sexuality
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 602–617.
Published: 01 November 2022
... by pollen and “plant prostitutes” to concerns about “crimes against nature” and the persecution of male same-sex desire, this history ultimately arrives at queer reproduction and pleasure as a collective endeavor. 5. See Taiz and Taiz, Flora Unveiled ; Schiebinger, Nature’s Body . 6...
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Sensory Co-laboring: Mine Detection Dogs and Handlers in Humanitarian Demining in Colombia
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 30–51.
Published: 01 November 2023
... work into dialogue, this composite term foregrounds detection as labor and as a result of human-nonhuman cooperation. It also highlights the asymmetrical field in which these collaborators converge and the divergent desires, affects, and attachments that mobilize their participation in demining. Mine...
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Blue Humanities and the Color of Colonialism
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2024
... humanities take shape under the umbrella of the environmental humanities? This article examines the blue humanities to argue that its blues address colonial inheritances and critique colonial desires. Blue has long appealed to the colonial imaginary; it drew European ships across the seas to mine blue...
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Listening to Birds in the Anthropocene: The Anxious Semiotics of Sound in a Human-Dominated World
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 53–71.
Published: 01 May 2015
.... These responses emphasise the significance of bird sounds for people's sense of place, time and season and the longing that many have for their own lives to resonate with the birds around them. I argue that this has less to do with desires to hear harmony in pristine nature but with developing relations...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 191–202.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of Marder's concepts, plant “nourishment,” “desire” and “language” are explored through readings of Gabrielle de Vietri's installation The Garden of Bad Flowers (2014), the story of Daphne from Ovid's Metamorphoses (8 CE) and Alice's encounter with talking flowers in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 60–83.
Published: 01 May 2017
... attempts at climate control are not consistent with a desire to control the elements, I argue instead that Eliasson’s environments are fully orchestrated affairs that share the technologies and efforts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries’ militarization of climate control. Their phenomenological...
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The Political Life of Cancer: Beatriz da Costa’s Dying for the Other and Anti-cancer Survival Kit
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 230–254.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Wilson’s desire for “sustained attention [to] the nature of attacking, sadistic impulses, and the difficulties of how to live (and politick) with them” and Scott Gilbert, Jan Sapp, and Alfred Tauber’s call for “intermingled symbiont relationships.” The multispecies power structures playing out in Dying...
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Queer Ecology in Loïe Fuller’s Modernist Dance and Magnus Hirschfeld’s Die Transvestiten
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 618–640.
Published: 01 November 2022
... and embodiment of gender and sexuality. In Dancing Desires , Jane Desmond shows how dance histories and practices stand in close relationship to histories of sexuality and should be fruitfully considered together, and that the analysis of dance “as a form of material symbolic bodily practice” can advance queer...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 19–39.
Published: 01 May 2014
... to signify in ways legible to the cultural narratives of disaster. Without willing human victim stories or the spark of a grassroots activist fight against (literal) power, the flood quickly faded from visibility. It failed to mobilize the desire to reconsider choices, infrastructures of power, or actions...
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Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 584–589.
Published: 01 November 2022
.... . . . I feel like all I can hear in my head is a speedboat travelling through water.” 6 Larapinta and Kaden’s relationship is, however, neither only—or perhaps ever—about romance nor about sex as a medium of utopian interspecies or polygender desire that can somehow transcend the colonial...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 19–35.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of distance”—the blue of a faraway horizon—as “the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and desire, . . . the color of where you can never go ,” 50 the films’ renewal of the gap safeguards the desire of the feminine settler, her desire for close distance from the blue world, a pulsing island of her...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 680–698.
Published: 01 November 2022
... ecology. The dystopia of Boytropolis requires that we disentangle same-sex desire from expectations of radical subversion and uncouple queerness from any knee-jerk association with progressive ecological thinking. Building especially on the queer theory of José Esteban Muñoz, queer ecologists like...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 65–82.
Published: 01 November 2023
... . https://doi.org/10.1191/1478088706qp063oa . Brookes Warren T. The Economy in Mind . New York : Universe Books , 1982 . Cater Nick . The Lucky Culture and the Rise of an Australian Ruling Class . Sydney : 4th Estate , 2013 . Cohen Daniel . The Infinite Desire...
View articletitled, The Economy in Mind: A Thematic Analysis of Economic Reality as Deployed within the Discourse of the Environmental Countermovement
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 330–337.
Published: 01 May 2018
... indeterminacy of complex systems, and in the limited powers of human agency. Today’s dragons often go unrecognized and unnamed due to the unwelcome challenges they represent to our desire for order, certainty, and control. If dragons no longer help us recognize gaps in knowledge, how do we then talk about...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 44–63.
Published: 01 March 2023
... and individual desires are projected onto others who are rendered mute. Rose suggests this “monological view of the world rests on a huge error. Actually, the world is rich in life, and living beings have their own stories, ideas, and desires.” 37 When we embrace dialogue as a strategy for engaging worlds “we...
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What Is the Terroir of Synthetic Yeast?
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 40–62.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., Robot depicts the united Far Eastern peoples of a future Earth subsisting almost entirely on yeast, bioengineered and processed into every desirable food. More recently, Joss Whedon’s space-cowboy television drama Firefly depicts twenty-sixth-century spacefarers relying on standard protein rations...
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