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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 661–679.
Published: 01 November 2024
... with plants not just to restructure incumbent energy systems but also to reshape underlying energy cultures. A closer attunement to plants, the article concludes, could enable society to imagine and embrace new habits of energy consumption. Such habits would reify not continuous expansion or growth, nor even...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 402–426.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Matthew S. Henry Abstract This essay operates at the intersection of the energy humanities and environmental justice studies to survey extractive fictions , a term I use to describe literature and other cultural forms that render visible the socioecological impacts of extractive capitalism...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 280–301.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and culture in which humans benefit from a natural environment over which they exercise technical and managerial control. The cascade model also tends to hierarchize value according to what can be measured, artificially distinguishing the “tangible” and quantifiable values of food and energy production...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 March 2023
... It was thought that approximately 60 percent of the United States’ energy resources—coal, uranium, and shale oil—were located on reservations. In that new situation, Native leaders vigorously debated what to do. Should they use the instruments of white culture to exploit their energy resources and thus gain...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 251–265.
Published: 01 November 2023
... existence. Geological humanism refers to the way that themes of earthly existence routinely influenced the status and meaning of being human, culturally and within the sciences, with the collapse of Enlightenment aesthetics of symmetry, purpose, and order in the late eighteenth century. While earth sciences...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 273–294.
Published: 01 May 2018
... and the Anthropocene .” Oxford Literary Review 34 , no. 2 ( 2012 ): 259 – 76 . Clark Nigel , and Yusoff Kathryn . “ Combustion and Society: A Fire-Centred History of Energy Use .” Theory, Culture, and Society , 31 , no. 5 ( 2014 ): 203 – 26 . Colebrook Claire . “ Queer Vitalism...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 372–390.
Published: 01 November 2021
... and the social and environmental violence it wreaks. The “landscape[s] of possibility” found in energy/fuel are crucial to grasping cultural development. The crises of today—climate change, ecosystem loss, environmental injustice—are in part a failure to connect culture with energy. For instance...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 May 2013
... masculinities. Given today's financial situation, where our world-ecological system once again seems to be dealing with resources in a disastrous way, it is important to reanalyze and intervene in the discussion about how energy and environmental policies are culturally rooted. Not least, it is time...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 643–660.
Published: 01 November 2024
... processes of energy conversion and waste supposedly explained all aspects of life and culture. Ostwald wrote about the physical chemistry of this in a 1901 text titled Vorlesungen über Naturphilosophie ( Lectures on Nature Philosophy ). He described how Earth “assimilated” solar energy via innumerable...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 174–189.
Published: 01 November 2023
... This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). warfare extraction geosocial formations Turkey Kurdish issue Since 1984, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has been waging an armed struggle against the Turkish state for cultural...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 77–100.
Published: 01 May 2014
... centred on economic profit and brand value and, together, the statements are parts of the discourse about extracting natural resources in a way that promotes an image of a pure energy industry. These associations with purity, drawing on cultural narratives of the utopian and wealthy North...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 44–63.
Published: 01 March 2023
... .” Technology and Culture 49 , no. 4 ( 2008 ): 833 – 59 . Gergan Mabel Denzin . “ Animating the Sacred, Sentient, and Spiritual in Post-humanist and Material Geographies .” Geography Compass 9 , no. 5 ( 2015 ): 262 – 75 . Gibson Katherine , Rose Deborah Bird , and Fincher...
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Oil as Solution to the Problems of Oil: The American Petroleum Institute and the Petromodern Paradox
Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 45–65.
Published: 01 May 2021
... School Program In its 2016 manifesto After Oil , the Petrocultures Research Group argues that North Americans face the “epistemological and practical problem of the impasse of fossil fuels,” 1 characterized by the simultaneous need and inability to transition to a new form of energy. The impasse...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 62–84.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Fiona R. Cameron; Ben Dibley; David S. Ellsworth Abstract Historical, cultural, and technological collections are routinely put to work to illustrate narratives of progress, history, and identity. They can also convey new stories that articulate how cultural objects might serve as material...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 194–215.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of the abandoned buildings and opened a social center, a laboratory for culture and politics. 7 Then, a broader alliance of neighborhood associations negotiated the creation of a city park called Parco delle Energie, managed by the Forum Parco delle Energie beginning in 2008. A form of governance from below...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 129–144.
Published: 01 March 2022
... in nuclear energy. The use of myxomatosis as a bioweapon and the creation of nuclear energy capable of radioactive pollution are also at the core of Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura’s La caza ( The Hunt , 1966). This article argues that The Hunt provides an important examination on extinction and biopolitics...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 341–358.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of Life . 15. Ibid., 6. 16. Ibid., 12. 17. Ibid., 15. 18. E = mc 2 , so matter and energy are interchangeable. 53. Stengers, Invention of Modern Science , 66. References Albrecht Andreas , and Sorbo Lorenzo . “ Can the Universe Afford Inflation...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 May 2021
... are far more complex. The study of this worldview and its communicative schema bring us into the cultural politics not only of energy and climate change but also of gendered and racial bodies and all that they imply about environmental knowledge, politics, and emotion in a warming world. For its...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 89–105.
Published: 01 May 2016
... Processes to Their Environmental Consequences (Washington D.C.: Office of Environmental Management, 1997), 1. 14 O'Leary was outspoken in her campaign to change the culture of nuclear secrecy in the United States. As a sign of her intentions as Secretary of Energy, she changed the name...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 159–173.
Published: 01 November 2023
... as both discarded tin cans and pulmonary fibrosis. Drawing insights from geophilosophy and both Marxian and toxicological approaches to metabolism, this article reflects on how inhuman forces and substances subtend not only life but also its disparate energies and exposures. andrea.marston...
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