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Of Geosocial Relations and Separations: Detangling Violence across Scales of Extraction and Colonial Warfare
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 174–189.
Published: 01 November 2023
... was transformed into an extractable resource. At the drilling site, Hakan took another piece of core sample from the box and handed it to me. This was a souvenir for himself—an addition to the large collection of rocks in his display cabinet back in the apartment where he lived with his wife in Antalya. “We...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 603–623.
Published: 01 November 2024
... into proprietary knowledge, frequently at the expense of communities who have cultivated this knowledge over generations. Prospecting is therefore inescapably extractive, but insofar as it involves a gamble on the profitability of a resource in the future, it is also inherently speculative. Taking recent...
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Extractive Fictions and Postextraction Futurisms: Energy and Environmental Injustice in Appalachia
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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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Preface to “Energy Matters”
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 219–222.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Imre Szeman Abstract This preface offers an overview of the guiding themes of the special section. It notes the focus on a critical appraisal of dominant narratives designed to render acceptable contemporary extraction practices in Latin America and their effects on local communities...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 280–294.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Raúl Rodríguez Freire Abstract In an attempt to comprehend the intersection between the short and accelerated human history with the deep and slow history of the planet, this essay imaginatively follows the temporal and spatial movement of a lithium atom. The essay focuses on the extractive...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 478–494.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Siobhan Angus; Warren Cariou Abstract This two-part essay turns to the landscapes of bitumen mining in the Athabasca tar sands in western Canada. Despite the environmental costs of the tar sands mining process, the Canadian state remains invested in oil extraction in the tar sands. Starting from...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 52–71.
Published: 01 May 2019
... two weeks, Roy describes their armed struggle to a global English audience. Exploring Roy’s role both as an itinerant narrator and a global cultural mediator, the author argues that descriptive accounts of travel through contested zones of extraction can foster a vocabulary of resistance...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 372–390.
Published: 01 November 2021
.... These authors, though, resisted extractive metaphors for energy and fuel, offering more organic and intimate visions of energy instead. Using energy humanities theories developed by Warren Cariou (Métis) and Bob Johnson, among others, this article will analyze Mary Jemison’s (Seneca) autobiography; Jane...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 18–39.
Published: 01 May 2017
... plantations and bustling tourist town. In many ways, Darjeeling is what Val Plumwood calls a “shadow place.” Shadow places are sites of extraction, invisible to centers of political and economic power yet essential to the global circulation of capital. The existence of shadow places troubles the notion...
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Justus von Liebig Makes the World: Soil Properties and Social Change in the Nineteenth Century
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 205–226.
Published: 01 May 2020
...) arguments about the production of abstract space, this article argues that Liebig’s assessment of nutrient extraction was essential to a broader midcentury reconsideration and reorganization of capitalist agricultural production, an example of what world ecologist Jason Moore calls an “organizational...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 May 2020
... the instantaneously mediated and circulated chemical dust explosions in Kunshan and Tianjin in 2014–15 as eco-media events —that is, spectacular and ephemeral moments in which the material processes of digital production link the old forms of resource extraction with our new lives of electronic gadgetry and media...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 385–400.
Published: 01 July 2022
... decisions and natural resource extraction activities have a direct effect on the survival and well-being of these plants and larger ecosystems. Enchantment brings attention to the deep-seated settler biases against certain types of plants that are common or abundant or, more specifically, not of current...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 680–698.
Published: 01 November 2022
... men whose insatiable sexual appetite appears to derive from a juice diet consisting of a mysterious emerald-colored potion that they extract from the local foliage, at least until they are denied indulgence in either this nectar or the sexual activity it inspires and vanish in a puff of smog...
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Cotton, Whiteness, and Other Poisons
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 499–521.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Brian Williams; Jayson Maurice Porter Abstract This article examines how racial capitalism has shaped the ecological and technological dynamics of cotton production in the United States South. Cotton’s destructive dependence on chemicals and on the extraction of lives and resources was animated...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 25–43.
Published: 01 March 2023
... narrative animates the concept of planetary parks. These have gained increased popularity as a mechanism of environmental protection in space, but it is important to note how they entertain a settler future in outer space and legitimize claims to territorial property and extraction. In a dialogue...
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Metabolic Strata, Corporeal Sediment
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 159–173.
Published: 01 November 2023
... that the extraction, circulation, and consumption of tin have nevertheless contributed to the production of metabolic unevenness across continental space. Since the early industrial era, tin has been used primarily for food preservation, in which capacity it has nutritionally supported the metabolic processes...
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Desktop Prospecting and Extractivism at Home
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 203–218.
Published: 01 November 2023
... to the region after a decades-long decline in mining activity. As climate change renders regional timber extraction uncertain and mining industry restructuring continues apace, settler prospectors’ homemaking aspirations are turning inward toward domestic spaces of labor—some of the few spaces where...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 73–102.
Published: 01 May 2015
... the invisible losses of extractive approaches to knowledge production, particularly in the context of collection-based biodiversity conservation. 1 14 Londa Schiebinger, “Feminist History of Colonial Science,” Hypatia 19, no. 1 (2004): 237. See also Robert N. Proctor and Londa Schiebinger, Agnotology...
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View articletitled, Global Plants and Digital Letters: Epistemological Implications of Digitising the Directors' Correspondence at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 254–267.
Published: 01 March 2025
..., this essay explores how oil permeates the language and aesthetic structures of poetry, thereby engendering diverse poetic interpretations of the subsoil in Venezuela. By scrutinizing this neglected relationship between poetry and oil extraction, this article seeks to identify the bodies, voices, landscapes...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 223–234.
Published: 01 March 2025
... that extend from the dirty world of fossil fuel extraction to the green future posed by mining and renewable energies. The article examines how commodification obscures labor and nature, detaching goods from their origins and conditions of production. It proposes repositioning Latin America from the periphery...
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