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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 401–418.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Eduardo Kohn Abstract What kind of guidance can the world Eduardo Kohn calls “forest” provide for living well on Earth in times of planetary anthropogenic ecological fragmentation? How, that is, can humans learn to ecologize their ethics? Reflecting on his ongoing ethnographic research...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 348–371.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of the coexistence of cooperation and competition in human and more-than-human communities. This ascendant understanding of plant communication and forest dynamics offers a counternarrative of flourishing, a model of what George Monbiot has called, in another context, “private sufficiency and public wealth...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 51–87.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Colin Fisher Abstract Wilderness parks in the United States are often described as landscapes of leisure for affluent white nature tourists. This article challenges that interpretation by exploring visitation to the Cook County Forest Preserves and the Indiana Dunes State Park, two Chicago-area...
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Published: 01 November 2021
Forest , by Katie Holten. Ink on paper, 2019–20. This artwork was made in collaboration with the poet Forrest Gander and was originally commissioned for the trees issue of Emergence Magazine . More
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 4. Tarmac and forest along Runway West at Frankfurt Airport. Courtesy of the authors. More
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 4. An early view of the Native Forest Landscape , circa 1970s. Courtesy of Alan Sonfist. More
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Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 1. Map of Forest Preserves, Indiana Dunes, and Steamship Lines, circa mid-1930s. Map created by the author. More
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Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 2. Immigrant picnic with dancing in the Forest Preserve Wilderness, circa 1920s–30s. Forest Preserve District of Cook County. FPDCC_00_06_0008_1422, courtesy of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County Records, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois More
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Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 3. Arts and crafts created by children in the Polish Sokol Camp, 1931. Forest Preserve District of Cook County. FPDCC_00_06_0008_1422, courtesy of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County Records, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago. More
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 87–108.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Michelle Westerlaken; Jennifer Gabrys; Danilo Urzedo; Max Ritts Abstract The question of who participates in making forest environments usually refers to human stakeholders. Yet forests are constituted through the participation of many other entities. At the same time, digital technologies...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 142–161.
Published: 01 July 2023
... and competition in human and more-than-human communities.” 5 The desire for such a more cooperative mode of organization, according to Nixon, explains the extraordinary popular appeal of plant communication and forest dynamics—the cooperation between plants, fungi, and trees in so-called mycorrhizal networks...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 397–420.
Published: 01 November 2018
...João Afonso Baptista Abstract In this article, I narrate an ethnographic storyline that involves forest inhabitants, local politicians, development professionals, and scientific researchers in both representational and nonrepresentational worlds of knowing. I discuss how and why, in Angola, making...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 321–340.
Published: 01 July 2022
... forest peoples, and a catastrophic COVID-19 pandemic. Some environmentalists suggest that escaping such devastation means returning to previous neoliberal policies such as “climate-smart agriculture” (CSA) that were promoted as a way to open a future of endless economic expansion and forest preservation...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 385–400.
Published: 01 July 2022
... Fort McKay First Nation and Bigstone Cree Nation describe how sakâwiyiniwak ecological care is rooted in kinship. Moments of enchantment, or intense moments of noticing and “plant-thinking,” inspire new appreciation of the boreal forest and the many familiar plants that grow within it, illuminating...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 419–437.
Published: 01 July 2022
... an awareness on the singularness and surprising character of life. First, this article characterizes care as a human intentional action targeting dependent nonhumans, such as crops. Second, it illustrates the recalcitrance of some nonhumans to human care, as in the case of forests in Indigenous southern Chile...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 25–43.
Published: 01 March 2023
... that is contrapuntal to the codification of this form of transplanetary environmentalism, this article traces how Lynn Margulis’s cosmic symbiosis, Donna Haraway’s sympoiesis, and Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Word for World Is Forest (1976) intersect with concerns of astrobiological knowledge. Crucially, they enable...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 624–642.
Published: 01 November 2024
... with the story Charlotte’s Web through guided walks in an altered landscape. Once farmland and now a rapidly declining forest behind their school, this sociohistorical space is home to lingering remnants of an animal agricultural past that evoke the pastoral imagery of the novel. In combination with a place...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 826–841.
Published: 01 November 2024
... Biosphere Reserve contest their framing as nature trespassers, while they carry the political, affective, and physical labor of conserving a disappearing insect. They too care for this butterfly but with an emphasis on its forest relations. Based on ethnographic data collected among these two often-opposed...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 766–783.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., but with forests disappearing, many who turn to labor on plantations find themselves struggling for autonomy. At the same time, they do not extend autonomous personhood to the oil palms with which they labor. This article explores the degrees of personhood attributed to botanical persons and the entangled human...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 52–71.
Published: 01 May 2019
... journey across the dense forests of Bastar in east-central India re-articulates the significance of this contested environmental space from the perspective of the region’s indigenous minorities. Traveling with a troop of indigenous rebels hailing from the Gond, Halba, and Muria communities for more than...