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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 407–430.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of “alterlivability,” a design philosophy grounded in permaculture ethics. Drawing on two novels by ecofeminist writer Starhawk— The Fifth Sacred Thing (1994) and City of Refuge (2016)—the article explores the genre of speculative design fiction for its insights into prototyping more livable futures...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 203–216.
Published: 01 May 2014
... effects of human activity on planet Earth. The comprehensive transformations of the epoch that some have come to call the Anthropocene will continue for millennia, and Pendell's ambitious science fiction novel attempts nothing less than to imagine not only the geological but also the human dimensions...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 473–500.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Matthew Schneider-Mayerson Abstract Climate fiction—literature explicitly focused on climate change—has exploded over the last decade, and is often assumed to have a positive ecopolitical influence by enabling readers to imagine potential climate futures and persuading them of the gravity...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 301–322.
Published: 01 November 2021
... status, the Schieffelin story is considered a cautionary tale about the dangers of ecological ignorance. Diving into the history of the Schieffelin story reveals, however, that it is almost entirely fictional. Tracing how its elements emerged and changed over a century of retelling clarifies how...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 142–161.
Published: 01 July 2023
... strands in the environmental humanities more generally, show that the opposition between the environmental imagination and neoliberalism is neutralized by a shared commitment to fictions of spontaneous order. [email protected] © 2023 Pieter Vermeulen 2023 This is an open access...
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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 (2022) 14 (1): 145–161.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Marco Caracciolo Abstract This article focuses on the evocation of children’s experiences in fiction that engages with postapocalyptic scenarios. It examines three contemporary novels from profoundly different geographic contexts—Yoko Tawada’s The Emissary , Niccolò Ammaniti’s Anna , and Diane...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 25–43.
Published: 01 March 2023
... astrobiology with visions and images from feminist postcolonial and decolonial theory, STS, and science fiction, and reflects on the enduring colonial tropes that provide the building blocks of current knowledge on outer space. The same colonial cartographic imagination at play in the much-debated frontier...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 571–589.
Published: 01 November 2024
... theory and fiction in their practice. The approach of Vonnegut’s work from the perspective of Haraway’s is through the polysemic notion of SF and her diagnosis of the “trouble.” The reading has two parts. First, it focuses on Vonnegut’s diagnosis of the trouble, leading deep into the military-industrial...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 321–345.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Adam Searle Abstract The spectacle of de-extinction is often forward facing at the interface of science fiction and speculative fact, haunted by extinction’s pasts. Missing from this discourse, however, is a robust theorization of de-extinction in the present. This article presents recent...
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Published: 01 May 2012
Figure 8 A machine in Tifa Tours that broke down while printing diplomas for University of Costa Rica graduates. The cooperative became inactive after the machines stopped functioning. Spectral promises made to the women of Bagatzí—fictions and fabulations about modernity—evaporated More
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 29–48.
Published: 01 March 2022
... with watery ecologies, then, also involves attention to speculative climate fictions (cli-fi) and the potential worlds they help fathom. Cli-fi renderings of climate disaster provide critical insight into possible alternative arrangements of power, meaning, and ontological status. As such, this article...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 49–70.
Published: 01 March 2022
... that make up landscapes. These convergences, first identified through tracking, are then explored through the more distributed analytic of gathering. Inspired by Ursula LeGuin’s call to describe stories of gatherers and collectives in her “Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction,” the article argues that thinking...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 109–127.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of fiction and screen texts from the nineteenth century to the present, viruses feature prominently. The texts fall into two categories: narratives in which Antarctica is the sole source of safety in a pandemic-ravaged world and those in which a virus (or another form of contagion) is discovered within...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 208–230.
Published: 01 March 2023
... science fiction narratives and their correlating lived practices to explore how death ethics for those driven extinct by climate change and other environmental injustices can and ought to go beyond affect, symbolism, and abstraction. It puts forward environmental palliation as an alternative framework...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 101–123.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Jonas Anshelm; Anders Hansson Abstract Geoengineering, i.e., the deliberate manipulation of the global climate using grand-scale technologies, poses new challenges in terms of environmental risks and human–nature relationships. Until recently, these technologies were considered science fiction...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 310–329.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Stefan Skrimshire Abstract What is the best way to communicate with far future human (and/or posthuman) societies? This sounds like a question for science fiction, but I ask it in the context of a pressing issue in environmental ethics: the (very) long-term disposal of high-level spent radioactive...
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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 6. Hayden Fowler, Anthropocene (2011). Mixed-media installation, 5 × 6.5 × 6.5 m. Exhibited at “Awfully Wonderful: Science Fiction in Contemporary Art,” curated by Lizzie Muller and Bec Dean, Performance Space at Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia, April 15 – May 14, 2011. Photographed More
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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 7. Hayden Fowler, Anthropocene (2011). Mixed-media installation, 5 × 6.5 × 6.5 m. Exhibited at “Awfully Wonderful: Science Fiction in Contemporary Art,” curated by Lizzie Muller and Bec Dean, Performance Space at Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia, April 15 – May 14, 2011. Photographed More
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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 8. Hayden Fowler, Anthropocene (2011). Mixed-media installation, 5 × 6.5 × 6.5 m. Exhibited at “Awfully Wonderful: Science Fiction in Contemporary Art,” curated by Lizzie Muller and Bec Dean, Performance Space at Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia, April 15 – May 14, 2011. Photographed More