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Urban Pedogeneses: The Making of City Soils from Hard Surfacing to the Urban Soil Sciences
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 250–266.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Germain Meulemans Abstract This article examines the rise of urban soils as a topic of scientific inquiry and ecological engineering in France, and questions how new framings of soil as a material that can be designed reconfigure relationships between urban life and soils in a context of fast...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 62–84.
Published: 01 July 2023
...—of extraction, of ecological crisis, of colonial and Indigenous dispossession. Many of the Science Museum’s engineering and technology collection items have histories deeply entangled in a capitalist economy and its extractivist activities and the development of consumer culture, which have supported Great...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 321–345.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., “Pathways to De-extinction.” 16. Lorimer and Driessen, “From ‘Nazi Cows’ to Cosmopolitan ‘Ecological Engineers’” ; Jepson, Schepers, and Helmer, “Governing with Nature.” 15. Sherkow and Greely, “What If Extinction Is Not Forever?” 14. de Vos, “Extinction Stories” ; Rose, van...
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Rot
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 235–239.
Published: 01 November 2016
... the positive roles of riparian and stream-channel deadwood for flood prevention. Experiments are underway to return large herbivores as “ecological engineers” whose browsing and grazing will restore decomposition. Beavers, cows, and horses are charged with felling or damaging trees, making space for rot...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 359–377.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Kammermeyer, Atmosphere in Space Cabins and Closed Environments ; Mattson, “Keeping Astronauts Alive”; Konecci, “Space Ecological Systems”; Bongers, “Sustaining Life in Space.” For more on the dream of a flight to Mars, see Lambright, Why Mars ; Conway, Exploration and Engineering . 15. Oswald...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 103–130.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers 38 , no. 9 ( 1919 ): 1027 - 1038 . “ Southern California Edison Plans New Capitalization .” Electrical World 82 , no. 5 , 4 August ( 1923 ): 245 . Star Susan Leigh and Ruhleder Karen . “ Steps toward an Ecology of Infrastructure...
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View articletitled, Generating Infrastructural Invisibility: Insulation, Interconnection, and Avian Excrement in the Southern California Power Grid
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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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Drawing the Line on Oil in Petrochemical America
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 21–44.
Published: 01 May 2021
...; the river is a multistranded, uncontained waterway producing a complex watershed. With time, it simplifies topographically and ecologically into a single-stranded, engineered river out of which radiate narrow strips of land called arpent sections. On these riverfront properties, the plantation system...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 454–474.
Published: 01 November 2020
.... , et al. “ Whales as Marine Ecosystem Engineers .” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 12 , no. 7 ( 2014 ): 377 – 85 . Rose Deborah Bird . “ Connectivity Thinking, Animism, and the Pursuit of Liveliness .” Educational Theory 67 , no. 4 ( 2017 ): 491 – 508 . Rose...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 784–806.
Published: 01 November 2024
...; they include the use of feed supplements that inhibit methane production in bovine rumens during digestion, and selective breeding or genetic engineering for the breeding of future-ready low-methane cows. In these bovine “technofix” solutions, the global scale is invoked to drive metabolic interventions...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 101–123.
Published: 01 May 2014
... time it is repeatedly admitted that such assumptions are highly problematic. Although there is an explicit awareness that the ecological side-effects are unknown, they are not perceived as beyond the scope of contemporary engineering science but as calculable and knowable. However, the discourse...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 284–302.
Published: 01 July 2022
.... The Yeast 2.0 project is an attempt to synthesize a complete artificial yeast genome. The iteration 2.0 refers to how, through engineering-like processes, synthetic biologists aim to streamline, rationalize, minimize, and “free up” the genome of yeast for downstream biotechnology and research applications...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 239–244.
Published: 01 May 2016
... and is not altered or transformed. The authors of An Ecomodernist Manifesto offer us a new twist on an old argument: to avert ecological collapse we need not less modernity, but more. 1 According to the ecomodernists, our global predicament is like that of a truck driver in the midst of an emerging...
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Watershed Encounters
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 107–128.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of both space and time. Modernist temporality is structured around periods and “epistemological breaks” that define the continual march of progress. 2 Similarly, modernist spatiality is organized around bounded domains that mark a distinction between different social and ecological relationships. 3...
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Nonhuman Labor and the Making of Resources: Making Soils a Resource through Microbial Labor
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 227–249.
Published: 01 May 2020
... into improving productivity, more direct ways of intervening in and reshaping the soil microbiome in the interests of agriculture are opening up through the use of genetic analysis and modification technologies. The emerging knowledge of soil microbiome ecologies is being linked with efforts to engineer soil...
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Mitigation
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 579–583.
Published: 01 November 2022
... . “ Anticipating Oil: The Temporal Politics of Disaster Yet to Come .” Sociological Review 62 , no. S1 ( 2014 ): 211 – 35 . zu Ermgassen Sophus O. S. E. , Baker Julia , Griffiths Richard A. , Strange Niels , Struebig Matthew J. , and Bull Joseph W. “ The Ecological...
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Landscape and Inscription
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 143–148.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., to the invention of the steam engine) than in the sense we share with him that such concepts as nature are no longer adequate to a truly ecological thinking in this more complex sense in which human action and its impacts on the natural world are implicated in the scalar and temporal complexities...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2025
... pathways of waste management, particularly the earth closet or, in its twentieth-century form, ecological sanitation. Such waste technologies were marginalized in the Western world because they maintained proximity to excrement and organic effluvia. Today waterborne sanitary systems have become a global...
View articletitled, The Sensory Anthropocene: Disgust, <span class="search-highlight">Ecological</span> Sanitation, and Planetary <span class="search-highlight">Ecologies</span>
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Narrating Extinctions for Survivance: An Indigenous Rice-Human Perspective from Mao Chenyu’s Films
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 331–350.
Published: 01 July 2024
... engineering can no longer hold a future. Meanwhile, he does not shun away the theoretical challenges elicited by the geological turn, which entails nonlife and death being included within the network of inheritance. Conceiving extinction as losing ecological interactions, the end of fatherhood...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 May 2013
... (2003): 534-41; Martin V. Melosi, “Lyndon Johnson and Environmental Policy,” in The Johnson Years: Vietnam, the Environment, and Science, ed. Robert A. Divine (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1987), 119-20; Maril Hazlett, “‘Woman vs. Man vs. Bugs': Gender and Popular Ecology in Early Reactions...
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