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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 401–418.
Published: 01 July 2022
... as a “thinking forest,” one that is mind manifesting or psychedelic in nature and as such requires a mode of attention that is itself psychedelic. Ethical guidance comes from finding ways to appreciate the “shape” of the larger mind of which people are a part, and in this way, to find direction from that form...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 243–260.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., “as eyes that see, as mouths that speak; we speak one of the imperial (“global”) languages. . . . [Our] remarkably disembodied [principle forms of academic engagement] reinforce a set of distinctions: mind versus body, reason versus emotion and imagination, thinking versus feeling.” 17 Evoking Descartes...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 187–212.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., and the “project” as a particular form of circulation and enactment of materials and things. To experiment with alternative modes of knowing, we went to Puchuncaví, the largest, oldest, and most polluting industrial compound in Chile, to encounter the inorganic through and with its inorganicness and to attend...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 174–189.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Zeynep Oguz Abstract How might an attention to the role that the geologic plays in everyday social and political formations help reveal and politicize the geographically, temporally, and stratigraphically distributed forms of violence in the Anthropocene? Building on recent work in environmental...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 145–158.
Published: 01 November 2023
... in relation to powerful earth dynamics, even while earth’s powers are constitutive of contemporary forms of domination. Geologizing Sylvia Wynter’s understanding of being human as a praxis, it proposes that earth as praxis (a) provides a diagnosis of the deeply embedded forms of power that have been...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 351–370.
Published: 01 July 2024
... the relationship between irony and settler-colonial imaginaries in writings about unpredictable bodies of water. Focusing on settler writing in Australia, the article juxtaposes nineteenth-century author Henry Lawson and contemporary novelist Jane Rawson to argue that irony constitutes a form of environmental...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 71–91.
Published: 01 May 2013
... powerful and universalizing explanations about why ‘our planet’ is being exhausted, and how ‘we’ must respond with urgent action. One of the effects of this response is that environmental problems are naturalized as empirical facts around which new forms of governance and regulation must emerge. While...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 84–107.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Jean M. Langford Abstract At an urban parrot sanctuary in the Midwestern USA, humans care for eighty-some parrots from more than a dozen species. Many of these parrots have personal histories that include various forms of neglect, abuse, and abandonment. The article explores the forms...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 May 2016
... detailed attention to particular entities, a multiplicity of possible connection and understanding opens up: species are always multiple, multiplying their forms and associations. It is this coming together of questions of kinds and their multiplicities that characterizes multispecies studies. A range...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 324–350.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Kevan Klosterwill Abstract Do urban open spaces, whether comprised of small planting beds and gardens or larger parks and reserves, signal the juxtaposition of two worlds, two forms of life, one human and one natural and nonhuman? Or are those spaces necessarily embedded within the logics of real...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 110–128.
Published: 01 March 2022
... argue that our relationships with animals and nature are not primarily rational or scientific but formed through these images and the mythologies that come with them. The authors call these images “modern bestiaries” in reference to the medieval proto-encyclopedias that cataloged animals for moral...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 128–140.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Anne Rademacher; Mary L. Cadenasso; Steward T. A. Pickett Abstract This essay considers ecology in its singular and plural forms. It asks whether and how the knowledge forms generated by practitioners of the singular science of ecology might weave more fully into a robust plural analytic...
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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 (2024) 16 (2): 460–477.
Published: 01 July 2024
... this as insufficiently hopeful, however, the article addresses the form of the novel as an exemplar of accessible experimentalism, suggesting it models new ways of communicating complex problems. If narrativizing hope demands an openness to multiple possible futures, then the form of such hope might need to defer...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 271–290.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Alex A. Moulton Abstract This article suggests that the notion of “the plot” has methodological and epistemological value for the environmental humanities. Conceptualized in the work of Sylvia Wynter, the plot—as material site and narrative mode crucial to the novel form—offers a heuristic...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 19–39.
Published: 01 May 2014
... in a spill of layered sediments – each layer of particulate a temporary resting place for a forceful trajectory of matter spurned into motion elsewhere in space and time. This paper takes up the atemporal matter of this coal ash flood to ask: out of what movements and connections was the ash formed? How did...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Paul Gillen Abstract Mineral evolution (ME) is a geologic paradigm postulating that Earth’s minerals formed sequentially and have interacted with life forms for billions of years. The evolution of Earth and its minerals is therefore entangled with the evolution of life. This “Provocation” ponders...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 397–420.
Published: 01 November 2018
... representers. Yet this technique disempowers local forest dwellers in their everyday territories and disallows the capacity that the ecological knowns have to reveal themselves. Knowing Angolan forests through absence and distance is not just a potent contemporary form of knowledge that qualifies as a way...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 3–26.
Published: 01 May 2019
... a multi-species ecological ethic recursively informs an economic paradigm for making ends meet with others, where surpluses born of synergies feed back into a resilient system, revaluing weeds and waste. Sally’s labors reflect a new form of ethical, ecological, and economic entanglement that crops up...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 155–170.
Published: 01 May 2014
... generated by the Apollo Space missions as the characteristic form of planetary mediation during the late twentieth century, and argue that our current emergence into a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, calls for radically different representational strategies. Whole Earth images draw their strength...
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