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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 133–150.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Lesley Instone; Affrica Taylor Abstract Modes of thinking matter. In this article we engage with the figure of the Anthropocene as the impetus for rethinking the messy environmental legacies of Australian settler colonialism that we have inherited. We do this rethinking in a small rural valley...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 13–33.
Published: 01 May 2014
... graphs of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change organize time in a way aligned with Giorgio Agamben's concept of messianic time. Like Agamben's messianic time, the figures of the IPCC depict a disjointed present. Every figure is either a reconstruction of past climate or a projection of future...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 303–320.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Lizzy Nichols Abstract The figure of the “native informant,” as outlined by Spivak, confers a legitimacy of “inside” information for the colonial subject that, ultimately, is generalized to the point of confirming the colonist’s view of the world, challenging nothing and, instead, providing...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 280–299.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... The rhetorical figure is characteristic of the environmental humanities, for it invokes the value of cultural and literary treasures to reinforce the importance of biological diversity. This article traces the origins of the metaphor to related figures of The Book of Life and to the figure of genetic information...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 216–238.
Published: 01 May 2019
... these works, Straube explores the meaning of this correlation between ticks and transing bodies for environmental ethics as well as for the forging of livable lives for trans people. Toxicity surfaces as a link in these works. The notion of feminist figuration, developed by philosopher Rosi Braidotti among...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 709–724.
Published: 01 November 2024
... alike turn toward voices of moral authority and power to seek to mitigate these losses. But the kinds of authority sought out by fishers on the river are not the same as those identified by environmental groups; “spirit lords” and other divine figures enter into the conversation just as much...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 55–75.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Gabriella Blasi Abstract Through a figural analysis of Terrence Malick's Badlands (1973), this paper seeks to contribute to a more defined role of film criticism in contemporary environmental thought. The analysis focuses on the relation between humans and nature in Badlands and revolves around...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 129–149.
Published: 01 May 2018
... know what it is like to be one. In Nagel’s account, heterogeneity is figured negatively—as a failure or lack of resemblance—and functions to constrain his knowledge of bats. Today, as white-nose syndrome threatens bat populations across North America, might figuring heterogeneity positively...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 May 2021
... denial, asking what values and relations are gathered together within carbon vitalist speech and how speakers work to sustain these connections. Through close readings of carbon vitalist media and interviews with key figures in its network, the article demonstrates how the body is central to carbon...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 145–161.
Published: 01 March 2022
... that speaks to the significance of the figure of the child in the environmental humanities: even in literature by and for adults, the integration of children’s perspectives on the end of the world performs important cultural work by questioning and decentering an understanding of the ecological crisis shaped...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 142–161.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Pieter Vermeulen Abstract This essay argues for the deep affinities between neoliberalism and environmental thought that embraces such figures as fungi, swarms, and especially trees. While critics like Rob Nixon turn to trees to promote modes of cooperative biology and plant communication...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 190–202.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and geopolitical relations, even as the fluid dynamics of wealth and islands of impounded silt evince multiple figurations of Asian-ness. Through the juxtaposition of two permutations of land, economics, and racial formation across multiple centuries in the Fraser River Delta, I offer a notion of orogeny...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 512–528.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Hannah Klaubert Abstract This essay engages debates about hopeful critical scholarship in the environmental humanities via an analysis of the figure of the Babushka of Chornobyl in literature, film, and photography. The argument for hazardous hope unfolds in two steps. First, the article discusses...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 590–602.
Published: 01 November 2024
... advocates for pattern’s radical provocation to think outside cultural conventions and neo-Darwinist constraints. Pattern connects with vitality rather than utility; its radical excess overruns proprietorial boundaries. Pattern blurs delineations of figure and field, operating as a decolonial force, queering...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 766–783.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Alice Rudge Abstract Oil palm plantations often produce figurations of heroism and villainy attributed to human and nonhuman actors. Yet these categories may mask the subtleties of local experiences. Indigenous Batek people in Malaysia highly value the autonomy of both plants and people...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 784–806.
Published: 01 November 2024
... metabolic intervention, influence agricultural policies, and draw investment into ecomodernist visions of “good cows for a good Anthropocene.” Through examining how cows figure as both problems and solutions through metabolic interventions, this article traces the importance of, and issues with, scale...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 309–330.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Nathaniel Otjen Abstract This article asks what it means for conservation scientists to label a member of an endangered, endemic species homeless. By considering the boundary-crossing figure of Ho‘ailona, a partially blind Hawaiian monk seal who was declared homeless and translocated six times...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 418–432.
Published: 01 November 2017
... as well as literal and figurative orientations to potential hazards. In Johnson’s memory, I would like to take you on a tour of the end of the world from the ends of the earth. I analyze the tension between extreme nature and extreme bureaucracy in terms of three moves—(1) the predepature preparations...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 257–272.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Richard D. G. Irvine Abstract What does it mean to do violence in deep time? How is deep time evoked in our understanding of environmental harm? Environmental transformations have figured prominently in the recent history of Mongolia. Shifts in land use have been associated with severe pasture...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 108–136.
Published: 01 May 2019
... proposal to complement the Anthropocene concept with the figuration of Chthulucene, calling for a shift of ethical stance and position of enunciation from the sovereign (white, Western) “I,” waging “war” on cancer to a “we,” based on a planetwide kinship of vulnerable bodies. Underlining that this shift...