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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 261–276.
Published: 01 May 2014
... with particular fervour, namely ecocriticism and environmental history. After outlining an ideal of slow scholarship which cultivates thinking across different spatiotemporal scales and seeks to sustain meaningful public debate, the essay argues that both ecocriticism and environmental history are concerned...
View articletitled, Mapping Common Ground: Ecocriticism, <span class="search-highlight">Environmental</span> <span class="search-highlight">History</span>, and the <span class="search-highlight">Environmental</span> Humanities
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 May 2013
.... 9 Joseph Sramek, “Face Him Like a Briton”: Tiger Hunting, Imperialism, and British Masculinity in Colonial India, 1800-1875,” Victorian Studies 48, no. 4 (2006): 659-680. 10 Adam Rome, “‘Give Earth a Chance’: The Environmental Movement and the Sixties,” Journal of American History 90...
View articletitled, The Making of an <span class="search-highlight">Environmental</span> Hero: A <span class="search-highlight">History</span> of Ecomodern Masculinity, Fuel Cells and Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 427–460.
Published: 01 November 2019
... the field is taking form. These are, in large part, a response to the distinctive histories and current challenges of this region: (1) diverse forms of colonization and struggles for Indigenous sovereignty, (2) inequality and environmental injustice in relation to a range of issues including nuclear...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 181–203.
Published: 01 November 2017
... cores is meant to point toward obvious choices to control our global future, the temporalities of ice cores might not lead the same way. This article joins an increasing concern in the environmental humanities with temporalities, and encourages greater attention to temporalities in environmental history...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 301–322.
Published: 01 November 2021
... the story came to shore up uncertainties in the bird’s environmental history and to distract from the lack of data supporting the starling’s supposedly disastrous impacts. In explaining how a fiction repeated over time attained the status of fact in debates about invasive species, this literary history...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 226–240.
Published: 01 May 2018
... described the blaze as “unprecedented.” This essay examines that claim in the light of contextualizing environmental histories and finds that although such firestorms are rare, they are far from unprecedented; they are in fact a necessary part of the cycle of regeneration in certain types of eucalypt forest...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 117–146.
Published: 01 May 2013
... alone: their efforts were seeded by the white abolitionist, Gerrit Smith; fertilized by the utopian socialist communes that covered the Northeast in the 1840s; and nurtured by abolitionists, both black and white. To United States environmental history, I add two threads less frequently seen: African...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 433–440.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of analysis, the five contributions—combining perspectives from ecocriticism, environmental philosophy, film studies, visual arts, and history—showcase alternative presents and futures of living responsibly with a permanently polluted planet. Writing from the perspective of hazardous hope, the section’s...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2025
... hygiene has an environmental and even geological history: our sensory norms contribute to environmentally problematic attitudes such as heavy water use and disgust for organic waste. 55. “Earth for Earth Closets,” 606 . 56. The Earth Closet Company advertisement, 1871, quoted in Sipe, “Earth...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 113–135.
Published: 01 May 2021
... in intimate, phenomenological terms regardless of whether the research is professional or avocational. Christopher Sellers, drawing on the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty (among others), has called for an embodied environmental history : history that examines the ways in which “human and extrahuman...
View articletitled, Bird Banding and the <span class="search-highlight">Environmental</span> Humanities: Institutions, Intersubjectivities, and the Phenomenological Method of Margaret Morse Nice
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 171–201.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., Scenery, and Power: Cultural Landscapes in Environmental History .” In Oxford Handbook of Environmental History , edited by Isenberg Andrew , 332 - 367 . New York : Oxford University Press , 2014 . Litfin Karen . The Greening of Sovereignty in World Politics . Cambridge, Mass. : MIT...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 147–167.
Published: 01 May 2013
... one, or its consequent environmental impact, determining the course of history, when set against the totality of political, societal and cultural trends over decades or even centuries. For instance, while a series of combined climate and tectonic plate shocks, c.1250-1100 BC, associated...
View articletitled, Climate Blues: Or How Awareness of the Human End Might Re-Instil Ethical Purpose to the Writing of <span class="search-highlight">History</span>
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 351–370.
Published: 01 July 2024
... .” Ecological Management and Restoration 8 , no. 2 ( 2007 ): 106 – 13 . Hutcheon Linda . Irony’s Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony . London : Routledge , 1995 . Jessup Brad . “ Trajectories of Environmental Justice: From Histories to Futures and the Victorian Environmental...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 124–141.
Published: 01 July 2023
... visible celestial phenomena to startling perceptual change. The film is less evocative of how darkness and other nocturnal processes are interwoven with colonial histories and interconnected socio-environmental injustices. Robert Sullivan, a poet whose ancestral lands include the Aoraki Mackenzie...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 433–458.
Published: 01 November 2021
... Ground: Ecocriticism, Environmental History, and the Environmental Humanities .” Environmental Humanities 5 , no. 1 ( 2014 ): 261 – 76 . Castree Noel . “ The Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities: Extending the Conversation .” Environmental Humanities 5 , no. 1 ( 2014 ): 233...
View articletitled, Making the <span class="search-highlight">Environmental</span> Humanities Consequential in “The Age of Consequences”: The Potential of Global <span class="search-highlight">Environmental</span> Assessments
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 41–67.
Published: 01 May 2014
...: Colonialism and Global Environmental History, 1400-1940 . Cambridge : The White Horse Press , 1997 . Guy Nancy . “ Flowing Down Taiwan's Tasumi River: Towards an Ecomusicology of the Environmental Imagination .” Ethnomusicology 53 , no. 2 , Spring-Summer ( 2009 ): 218 - 248 . Harris...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 190–202.
Published: 01 March 2025
... maintaining a spatial focus on Idaho’s environmental history, political ecology, and the lived experience of local environmental change, the deep map also allows for the incorporation of creative methods that bring to the fore a variety of “partial perspectives” to critically engage the environmental...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 69–84.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of commonalities, particularly about who are the experts in managing the future of the natural world. The commonalities reflect global forces that are changing the environmental management of local places. The paper considers the value of art, history and the broader humanities in enriching and critiquing global...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 194–215.
Published: 01 May 2019
... studies and histories of industrial hazards, the author examines how memories of toxic labor, environmental transformation, and workers’ resistance have been reactivated in the ongoing project of reclaiming the Ex-SNIA and keeping it off-limits from urban speculation. Drawing on archival research...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 495–511.
Published: 01 July 2024
.... The story of João de Deus is a journey through epochs and eras, uncovering the interplay between human societies and their ecological surroundings. Now, João de Deus’s life joins a thickening “stream of stories of slow hope” that may one day become a powerful river of environmental histories of hope. 50...
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