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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 88–106.
Published: 01 March 2025
... by interrogating the metaphorical “desert” within the food desert concept. By mapping the extensive critiques of the food desert metaphor onto longer histories of US settler colonialism and imperialism that leverage imperial ideologies about deserts as empty, barren, lacking, and in need of improvement...
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Being Dumped
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 180–193.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of modernity’s most important distinctions for an amorphous heap, which is not at all unheard of in mythology and in the history of philosophy. Not so innocent, the ecological, environmentally friendly, “green” discourses prevalent today are implicated in the growth of the desert and the dump they abhor...
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The War between Amaranth and Soy: Interspecies Resistance to Transgenic Soy Agriculture in Argentina
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 204–229.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... Langcuster, “Resistant Pigweed.” 56. Ward, Webster, and Steckel, “Palmer Amaranth ( Amaranthus palmeri ).” 57. Green, “Palmer Amaranth”; USDA, “ Amaranthus palmeri .” 58. Vestal, “Ethnobotany of Ramah Navajo.” See also Minnis, “Famine Foods of the Northern American Deserts Borderlands...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 49–70.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Pierre du Plessis Abstract This article explores the skilled arts of tracking and gathering as methods for noticing and theorizing multispecies landscapes in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana. Tracking is typically used to describe a practice of following animals, usually for hunting, whereas gathering...
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A Planetary Battery
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 643–660.
Published: 01 November 2024
... in this so-called Fertile Crescent. With the Sun’s intercession, sedimented soil became grain, nuggets of solar-derived protein and carbohydrates. Grain was not only a food but also a medium of conversion, something to be traded for objects or services considered of equivalent value. Grain could...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 131–157.
Published: 01 May 2015
... writing as a touchstone, my essay foregrounds the environmental features of the (re)location: the extreme desert weather, the mountain vistas, the incarceree-created rock gardens, the reconstructed barracks, guard tower, and barbed wire fence, and the cemetery/monument. I bring together concepts from...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 407–430.
Published: 01 November 2020
... bicycles, taking stairs rather than elevators, and growing food. 23 Human bodies become energy sources for active transportation. Thus, livability opens up bodies as arenas for (human) energy resource “extractivism,” which Macarena Gómez-Barris describes as “converting life into commodities.” 24...
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In Anticipation of Extirpation: How Ancient Peoples Rationalized and Responded to Postglacial Sea Level Rise
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 113–131.
Published: 01 May 2020
... megacities with ancient foundations are today disproportionately exposed to climate change. Even further back in the histories of particular places, once people realized the potential for relatively easy food acquisition and production along coasts, it was understandable that population densities increased...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 24–36.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., obeying new rules of standardization. Industrial foods replaced grass and other grazed plants for animals in stables, and for those that still enjoyed being outside, field crops and cultivated forages were being standardized. For decades, breeders would be advised to keep their herd in stables or in small...
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Extractive Fictions and Postextraction Futurisms: Energy and Environmental Injustice in Appalachia
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 402–426.
Published: 01 November 2019
... ), a process of environment making dependent on the (un)availability of “cheap nature,” or “cheap labor, food, energy, and raw materials.” 3 Scholars like Sharae Deckard, Michael Niblett, and others have increasingly approached postcolonial and world literatures from a world-ecological perspective to map...
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Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres (1991) and Archival Reimaginations of Eco-Cosmopolitanism
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 May 2013
... in Singapore,” Action, January 1988, U.S. Meat Export Federation, Collected Materials, 1985-1992, 1. 43 Smiley, A Thousand Acres, 251, 249. 44 See Steven G. Kellman, “Food Fights in Iowa: The Vegetarian Stranger in Recent Midwest Fiction” ( Virginia Quarternly Review 71, no. 3 [1995...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 45–64.
Published: 01 March 2025
... of Bioeconomics 22 ( 2020 ): 99 – 127 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10818-020-09295-4 . Cook Ian , et al . “ Geographies of Food: Following .” Progress in Human Geography 30 , no. 5 ( 2006 ): 655 – 66 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132506070183 . La croix de l ’ Algérie et de la...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 746–765.
Published: 01 November 2024
... ). As shown above and examined by Eilenberg, this criminalization of rural people has forged new coalitions between communities and environmental and Indigenous organizations across Kalimantan, and raised attention about the structural inequalities of land access and food insecurity. 82 However, sometimes...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 149–170.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Kelsey Green; Franklin Ginn Abstract The sudden decline of bee pollinator populations worldwide has caused significant alarm, not least because Apis mellifera, the European honeybee, is thought to be responsible for pollination of 71 of the 100 crop species which provide 90% of the world's food...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 141–154.
Published: 01 May 2012
... membranes as soon as water appears, allowing photosynthesis to resume. 3 Lichen may be found in frozen tundra and on parched desert rocks. For mushroom lovers, the most intriguing interspecies companionship is that between fungi and plant roots. In mycorrhiza, the threads of the fungal body sheathe...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 89–105.
Published: 01 May 2016
... in Northern New Mexico . Durham : Duke University Press , 2006 . Krupar Shiloh . Hot Spotter's Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2013 . Kuletz Valerie . The Tainted Desert: Environmental Ruin in the American West . New York...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 39–61.
Published: 01 July 2023
.... For example, see Kimura, Radiation Brain Moms ; Sternsdorff-Cisterna, Food Safety after Fukushima . See also Morita, Blok, and Kimura, “Environmental Infrastructures” ; Slater, Morioka, and Danzuka, “Micro-politics of Radiation.” 28. The new coinages anzen (safety) and anshin (peace...
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Practicing for Death in the Anthropocene: Reading Christian Asceticism after the End of the Human
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 105–123.
Published: 01 July 2023
... of the ars moriendi. During the first millennium CE, John Climacus (also known as John Sinaites), a monk of the Egyptian desert, made the remembrance of death and learning to die a cornerstone of Christian spirituality. In what follows we will be giving voice to Climacus in the context of an ongoing...
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Microbial Geographies at the Extremes of Life
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 398–417.
Published: 01 November 2017
... solar system and sparked a new wave of scientific writing on terraforming and planetary ecosynthesis. It seems worthwhile to also note here that all these events coincide with a considerable rise in bioprospecting activities in the Antarctic and other extreme ecologies such as the Atacama Desert...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 603–623.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., they represent artistic meditations on existing visual cultures of extraction, rather than images that can be operationalized to further prospecting’s aims. By documenting the layered colonial histories of mining in the DRC, or scrutinizing the bioprospecting activities of large food corporations, the artworks...
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