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Encounter
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 265–270.
Published: 01 May 2016
... or transformed. You encounter people ... movements, ideas, events, entities ... It designates an effect, a zigzag, something which passes or happens between two as though under a potential difference ... a single becoming which is not common to the two ... but which is between the two, which has its own...
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Ghostly Entanglements and Ruptures: Textual-Material-Animal Encounters with Charlotte’s Web
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 624–642.
Published: 01 November 2024
... encounter the ghostly remnants of an animal farm. The structures signifying animal containment, most notably the ever-protruding coils of rusted barbed wire, remain literally embedded in this land. These sticky remnants prompt uneasy feelings and questions about the confined lives of those farmed animals...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 273–294.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Nigel Clark; Alexandra Gormally; Hugh Tuffen Abstract In 2009, exploratory drilling of geothermal wells in Iceland’s Krafla volcanic caldera unexpectedly struck magma. The fact that the encounter did not have catastrophic consequences has excited considerable interest—and an international research...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 213–225.
Published: 01 May 2018
... time as an abstract concept, we explore how deep time manifests through places, objects, and practices. Focusing on three modes through which deep time is encountered—enchantment, violence, and haunting—we introduce deep time as an intimate element woven into everyday lives. Deep time stories, we...
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Watershed Encounters
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 107–128.
Published: 01 May 2018
.... In this article, I examine a series of watershed encounters in the Chesapeake Bay region and how they transform our understanding of the environmental problems that face the estuary and its landscape. I argue that the “restoration” effort currently at work in the Chesapeake Bay watershed fails to grapple...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 247–279.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Susanne Bauer; Nils Güttler; Martina Schlünder Abstract Focusing on a global hub of aviation, Frankfurt Airport, this essay examines encounters between animals and technology in airport operation. In order to understand how airport practices constantly negotiate the borders with local environments...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 93–109.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Deborah Bird Rose Abstract Towards the end of her eventful and productive life, Val Plumwood was turning toward Indigenous people and cultures as a way of encountering the lived experience of ideas she was working with theoretically. At the same time, she was defining herself as a philosophical...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 454–474.
Published: 01 November 2020
...” approach to storying extinction. This approach, developed by Deborah Bird Rose and Thom van Dooren, seeks to draw readers into imaginative encounters with embodied, specific, and lively creatures to support situated ethical responses. While at first this approach might seem antithetical to exploring...
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Heroic Fear: Emotions, Masculinity, and Dangerous Nature in British Colonial Adventure Narratives
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 162–182.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of encounters between Britons and dangerous natural environments in tropical colonies. This article combines literary-historical criticism with a history of emotions perspective to show how the expression or, alternately, elision of fear in adventure memoirs helped to frame encounters with wild animals...
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The Bell Jars: Smith College, Pelargonium sidoides , and Sylvia Plath’s Botanical Imagination
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 36–57.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., and the context within which Plath encountered it, namely, as a student of botany at Smith College conducting lab exercises on photosynthesis using the South African silverleaf geranium ( Pelargonium sidoides ). Through archival research on Plath and botanical instruction at the college, the essay shows...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 18–39.
Published: 01 May 2017
... that belonging can be “singularized” to a particular location or landscape. Building on this idea, I examine the encounters of Gorkha tea plantation workers, students, and city dwellers with landslides, a crumbling colonial infrastructure, and urban wildlife. While many analyses of subnational movements in India...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 349–369.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Liv Østmo; John Law Abstract This article describes a colonial encounter in north Norway between Sámi practices for fishing and knowing the natural world, and the conservation policies of state policy makers. In Sámi practices the world is populated by powerful and morally lively human and nonhuman...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 351–372.
Published: 01 November 2019
...María Elena García Abstract During ethnographic research on the biopolitics of culinary nationalism in Peru, I visited a guinea pig breeding farm north of Lima. Guinea pigs are considered “food animals” in the Andes. That encounter with pregnant guinea pigs—and with one guinea pig in particular who...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 187–212.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., and the “project” as a particular form of circulation and enactment of materials and things. To experiment with alternative modes of knowing, we went to Puchuncaví, the largest, oldest, and most polluting industrial compound in Chile, to encounter the inorganic through and with its inorganicness and to attend...
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Wild Faces
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 154–169.
Published: 01 March 2025
..., scent marks, posture, or gesture, “the face” may be dispersed more generally over the body. In a reading of several face-to-face encounters in Sid Marty’s books Switchbacks: True Stories from the Canadian Rockies and The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek , this article analyzes the specific differences...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 181–200.
Published: 01 May 2021
... as uncanny encounters with other ways of living. In doing so, the films inspire a plurality of ethico-political perspectives on species entanglement that all propose distinct responsibilities without making any organism the center of agentic events. To illuminate those perspectives, the article brings...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 November 2021
... the A. aegypti so that they can be deployed to control their own population—here, mosquito breeding and mating is operationalized as an insecticide. In this case, the insect must be simultaneously a friend and an enemy, cared for and killed, and it must establish encounters and nonencounters. Drawing...
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Agency and Multispecies Communities in Picture Books: The Snail and the Whale and The Secret of Black Rock
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 162–181.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... Drawing on new materialism and multispecies studies, the article argues that these two picture books exemplify the possibilities inherent in children’s literature of imaging encounters with multispecies communities and apprehending the dynamic agencies of the material world. With reference to the real...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 89–109.
Published: 01 March 2022
... in understanding and responding to this situation. This article seeks to draw out those lessons, thinking through some of the challenges for storytelling in summoning up these unseen others and in opening up a space for ethical encounter with living and dead beings that must, in important ways, remain beyond...
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Child Minds at the End of the World
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 145–161.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and its uncertainties. This discussion shows how formal choices in climate fiction are instrumental in creating an affective trajectory that complicates adult readers’ perception of our collective future. These close readings stage an encounter between the fields of ecocriticism and childhood studies...
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