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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 65–82.
Published: 01 November 2023
...: that humankind is able to progressively convert nature into economic reality, whose essence is the limitless quality of the human mind. [email protected] © 2023 Richard McNeill Douglas 2023 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 (2016) 8 (2): 263–269.
Published: 01 November 2016
... the tendency of the modern economy to turn nature’s goods into commodities, as in the privatization of water, which turns water “into a commodity subject to the laws of the market.” He criticizes the economic plunder of forests, which reduces biodiversity and destroys the dwelling places of their indigenous...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 66–92.
Published: 01 May 2021
... that is supposedly separated from culture hides political histories. Most botanical gardens evolved as embedded in colonial and imperial politics; they functioned as sites where plants were collected, studied, and disseminated for economic use and where knowledge and affections were produced that legitimated...
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 4. Two different shift work schedules. Adapted from Marc Maurice, Shift Work: Economic Advantages and Social Costs (Geneva: International Labour Office, 1975: 130). More
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Published: 01 May 2014
Figure 6 The characteristic time scales of some key processes in the Earth system: atmospheric composition (blue), climate system (red), ecological system (green), and socio-economic system (purple). Image courtesy of the IPCC, Third Assessment Report, Figure 5.1. 42 More
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 3–26.
Published: 01 May 2019
...-human” and “human economy” theorizing in the environmental humanities and economic anthropology respectively, this article develops the concept of the “more-than-human economy” to better understand the “problem of living despite economic and ecological ruination” (Tsing 2015). At Clearwater Creek...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 111–127.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Karyn Pilgrim Abstract The ethical food movement signals a significant transformation of cultural consciousness in its recognition of the intimate politics of what we eat and what kind of socio-political systems we sustain. The recent resurgence of economic localization exemplifies a grass roots...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 321–340.
Published: 01 July 2022
... forest peoples, and a catastrophic COVID-19 pandemic. Some environmentalists suggest that escaping such devastation means returning to previous neoliberal policies such as “climate-smart agriculture” (CSA) that were promoted as a way to open a future of endless economic expansion and forest preservation...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 746–765.
Published: 01 November 2024
... recurrent peat fires. Since these fires cause regional air pollution, detrimental health effects, tremendous economic costs, and environmental impact on a global scale, the search for fire villains takes center stage. However, as this article shows, the causes of fires are basically unknowable. Not only do...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 71–91.
Published: 01 May 2013
... social and natural life. The naturalization of scarcity was a cornerstone of liberal economics, the intellectual justification for various forms of enclosure and ‘improvement’. One person who challenged this powerful narrative was the poet John Clare (1793-1864). Where liberal economics began...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 41–58.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of tragedy, it argues that Hardin's thesis effectively asserts a rigid incompatibility between market economics and environmental protection, and to this extent “The Tragedy of the Commons” is more aptly read as a political critique that questions the viability of unlimited growth as the axiomatic premise...
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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 (2019) 11 (2): 402–426.
Published: 01 November 2019
... visible instances of environmental degradation and economic decline associated with energy development, challenges the deep-seated role of extraction as a cornerstone of regional cultural identity and the mythos of fossil fuel development as a path to economic and social progress. In doing so, they lay...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 227–249.
Published: 01 May 2020
... into economic resources. By proposing a new conceptualization of labor as a material process of transformation oriented toward the generation of capital value, the author establishes a dialogue between hitherto separate literatures on the making of economic resources and on nonhuman labor. This approach...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 296–320.
Published: 01 May 2020
... in which extinctions are “placed.” These are (1) an attention to geographical contingency of wildlife under threat from extinction; (2) the multiple, overlapping, and discordant political and economic geographies of violence, death, and attempted (necessarily partial) protections through which extinction...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 475–491.
Published: 01 November 2020
... The Economization of Life , and Jade Sasser’s On Infertile Ground —this book review essay grapples with the place of human numbers in our understanding of the connections between human reproduction, kinship, and environmental issues. This essay engages most closely with the chapters by Clarke and Haraway in Making...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 64–86.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Jochem Zwier; Bas de Boer Abstract In coming to grips with the advent of the Anthropocene, contemporary philosophers have recently pushed beyond its many physical implications (e.g., global warming, reduced biodiversity) and social significance (e.g., climate justice, economics, migration...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 1–18.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Desirée Kumpf Abstract Under the banner of green growth, a number of theories currently promote new models that seek to decouple economic growth from excessive resource use and its adverse ecological impacts. But how exactly can one generate profit without disturbing ecologies? Drawing...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 190–202.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and geopolitical relations, even as the fluid dynamics of wealth and islands of impounded silt evince multiple figurations of Asian-ness. Through the juxtaposition of two permutations of land, economics, and racial formation across multiple centuries in the Fraser River Delta, I offer a notion of orogeny...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 460–477.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Arthur Rose Abstract Asbestos has long been a staple lesson for the precautionary principle. As a toxic material, it is often something people hope not to encounter. But before this, it often appeared as a substance of hope, carrying the promise of safety and economic rewards. This article uses...