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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 65–82.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Richard McNeill Douglas Abstract This article applies thematic analysis to the discourse of the environmental countermovement, focusing primarily on the mutually referencing contributions of Julian Simon, Friedrich von Hayek, and Ronald Reagan. Utilizing a close reading of these texts, it aims...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 101–123.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., but they are now being reconsidered by researchers, leading to an emerging public debate. Our aim is to improve our understanding of the public discourse on geoengineering in mass media. We analyze 1500 articles published from 2005 to 2013, constructing four coherent storylines that represent most...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 187–207.
Published: 01 March 2023
... and attempts to revive or reclaim endangered and extinct languages. It thus argues for a decolonizing approach to discourses of both language extinction and reclamation. The article starts by contextualizing the complementary extinction crises facing both species and languages. It then moves on to explore...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 370–387.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Zachary Baynham-Herd Abstract Endangered species are not simply revealed but are presented . This process of presentation is shaped by conservation discourses that reflect how actors understand, categorize, and imagine nonhuman life. Such discourses combine to produce narratives of endangerment...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 224–244.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Kristen Cardon Abstract This article tracks the history of species suicide , a phrase that originally referred to a potential nuclear holocaust but is now increasingly cited in Anthropocene discourses to account for continued carbon emissions in the face of catastrophic climate change. With its...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 129–147.
Published: 01 May 2013
... in nomenclature is called for to reflect our transition out of the Holocene (our epoch's current formal name). I argue, however, that the pitch for the Anthropocene goes well beyond this rationale. The Anthropocene has morphed into a discourse that is organizing the perception of a world picture (past, present...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 280–301.
Published: 01 November 2019
...John Brannigan; Frances Ryfield; Tasman Crowe; David Cabana Abstract “Flow” is a key concept in our era of liquid modernity, across a broad range of ecological, economic, and cultural discourses. In this essay, we examine the material flows integral to naturecultures through the specific case study...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 441–459.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of critical hope that scholars claim are necessary in moving beyond the debilitating registers of apocalyptic rhetoric and crisis discourse. By comparing two short films—the Indian satire Finding Beauty in Garbage , and the American mockumentary The Majestic Plastic Bag —the article examines the affordance...
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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
...,” we contrast the discourses of agribusiness, mediated by satellite technology from above, with views from below, where other senses join sight, focusing on the struggle for survival of fumigated humans and weeds. In our story, while RR-soy has become a “bright object” of Argentinean agriculture...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 171–186.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., which alternate with a minimalist interface: a grid populated with dots signifying other animals and plants living in Banff. This essay argues that Bear 71 uses two strategies to reframe the data-driven discourse of wildlife management. First, the anthropomorphized narrative of Bear 71 reframes wildlife...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 370–396.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Erin Despard; Michael Gallagher Abstract In popular conservation discourse, Rhododendron ponticum is portrayed as an alien invader let loose on the British countryside by misguided gardeners. In Scotland, eradication campaigns tend to be favored over more pragmatic approaches to management, even...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 155–170.
Published: 01 May 2014
... from their iconographic and indexical qualities—in other words, their seeming ability to ground symbolic discourse in something that is undeniably and materially real. In the Anthropocene, however, physical nature itself has become a medium for the inscription of human messages, and effective planetary...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 341–360.
Published: 01 July 2022
... in mainstream medical discourses. Through the blend of environmental memoir, embodied knowledge, activist campaigns, and medical literature, the article exposes the accumulation of environmental, medical, ableist, misogynist, and capitalist slow violence that living with endometriosis brings about. While...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 265–283.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Kelly Donati Abstract For millennia, gastronomy has concerned itself with the deceptively simple question of how best to eat and live. This article proposes gastronomy as a fertile discourse, practice, and site of scholarly inquiry for thinking about the social and sensual pleasures of eating...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 105–123.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal; Simone Kotva Abstract This article analyzes the theme of practicing for death as it has emerged in recent environmental discourse. In the first part, it situates Roy Scranton’s Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (2015) in the context of new critical approaches to death...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 77–100.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., imagology, discourse and brand analysis used to highlight key narratives in images and written sources. The article discusses how ideas of purity are used in branding strategies and what they mean in Iceland today e.g. as a part of the emerging regional consciousness of ‘Arctic Iceland.’ The current...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 447–472.
Published: 01 November 2018
.... The modern idea of human exceptionality is thus shown to be based in large part on a scientifically dubious, and culturally specific, argument about the nature-transcendent quality of beings that walk upright. This is a particular form of humanist discourse that often forgets its own contingencies...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 784–806.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Adam Searle; Jonathon Turnbull; Catherine Oliver Abstract Scientific measurement and prediction tools have highlighted the significant greenhouse gas contributions of farmed animals, particularly dairy and meat cows. Emergent analysis and associated political discourse have refigured narratives...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 111–127.
Published: 01 May 2013
... attempt to undermine the hegemony of transnational corporations and build ecologically and economically sustainable communities. Social justice plays a key role in the guiding philosophies of these movements, and yet, while many ecocritical discourses examine the uncomfortable relationship...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 129–148.
Published: 01 May 2017
... and the encipherment process merely conceptual and methodological experimentations, or do they reflect ecological consciousness and ethical imperative for life? Building on Foucault’s idea of the discourse of nature and Benjamin’s notion of a language of things, I explore how The Xenotext —and biopoetry more generally...
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