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The Reaches of Freedom: A Response to An Ecomodernist Manifesto

Eileen Crist
Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 245–254.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-3616452
Published: 01 May 2016
... freedom.” 1 The Manifesto calls for building a global civilization that is cosmopolitan, connected, and high-tech, in which all people enjoy social and political freedoms and can partake of other liberties that modernity valorizes, especially access to goods and technologies, mobility, and diverse...
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At Home in the Great Northern Wilderness: African Americans and Freedom's Ecology in the Adirondacks, 1846-1859

Daegan Miller
Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 117–146.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-3610378
Published: 01 May 2013
... in and beyond historical scholarship has obscured nuanced, sometimes radical visions of the natural world. Instead of an ironic, deconstructed notion of a troubling wilderness, I suggest another heuristic, the ecology of freedom, which highlights past contingency and hope, and can furthermore help guide our...
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Animals, Angelenos, and the Arbitrary: Analyzing Human-Wildlife Entanglement in Los Angeles

Soledad Altrudi, Christopher M. Kelty
Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 522–542.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-9962838
Published: 01 November 2022
... of nondomination, it argues that existing entanglements are primarily arbitrary in a political sense, and that moving beyond them will require reducing this arbitrariness, even it if it means restricting human freedom or introducing new forms of control over animals, for a more-than-human city to be just...
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Oil as Solution to the Problems of Oil: The American Petroleum Institute and the Petromodern Paradox

Kyle Conway, Manjulika E. Robertson
Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 45–65.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-8867197
Published: 01 May 2021
... Program that were distributed by the American Petroleum Institute (API), the trade organization that promotes the US oil industry. It first describes the evolution of support for and opposition to the oil industry as well as that of the ideas of freedom that the industry sought to mobilize to gain public...
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Of Geosocial Relations and Separations: Detangling Violence across Scales of Extraction and Colonial Warfare

Zeynep Oguz
Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 174–189.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-10746067
Published: 01 November 2023
.... Through an ethnographic account of a state-led oil shale exploration project in southwestern Turkey during the eruption of war between Kurdish freedom fighters and the Turkish state in southeastern Turkey in the summer of 2015, the article traces the links and disjunctures between the everyday disavowal...
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The Orchid in the Land of Garbage: An Ecocritique of Terrence Malick's Film Badlands (1973)

Gabriella Blasi
Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 55–75.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-3615415
Published: 01 May 2014
..., death and/or change. This paper argues that Malick's use of the film medium to deal with issues of freedom in human-nature relations is an important point of interest for an ecocritical illumination of Malick's oeuvre and first long feature. In using Walter Benjamin's ontological position...
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Behind the Colonial Silence of Wilderness: “In Marronage Lies the Search of a World”

Malcom Ferdinand
Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 182–201.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-9481506
Published: 01 March 2022
... . Honnychurch Lennox . In the Forest of Freedom: The Fighting Maroons of Dominica . Trafalgar, Spain : Papillote , 2017 . José Reis João , and Gomes Flavio Dos Santos , eds. Liberdade por um fio, historia dos quilombos do Brasil . São Paulo : Companhia das Letras , 1996 . Lemire...
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The Tragedy of Limitless Growth: Re-Interpreting the Tragedy of the Commons for a Century of Climate Change

Matthew MacLellan
Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 41–58.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-3616326
Published: 01 May 2016
... respond automatically to the shibboleth of the ‘freedom of the seas.’ Professing to believe in the ‘inexhaustible resources of the oceans,’ they bring species after species of fish and whales closer to extinction.” 7 Construing the commons as an infinite resource misperceived is what ultimately...
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Cotton, Whiteness, and Other Poisons

Brian Williams, Jayson Maurice Porter
Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 499–521.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-9962827
Published: 01 November 2022
... agriculture leveraged industrial technologies and production against workers in ways that crushed freedom and resistance. 3 German chemist Justus von Liebig’s critique of soil depletion was central to Marx’s understanding of the destructive nature of capitalist agriculture. 4 Liebig’s idea that soil...
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Hope

Eben Kirksey
Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 295–300.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-3615550
Published: 01 May 2014
... Specters of Marx , edited by Sprinker Michael , 26 - 67 . New York : Verso , 1999 . Kirksey S. Eben . Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power . Durham : Duke University Press , 2012 . Tsing Anna Lowenhaupt , and Pollman Elizabeth...
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Silt

Katie Ritson
Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 461–464.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-7754556
Published: 01 November 2019
... and Bangladesh, where silt also has both incremental and sudden agency, intervening in human lives and structuring the book as a whole. 5 In both works, the drive of human societies toward “enlightenment” and “freedom” is checked by the movement of silt. Both Ghosh’s and Swift’s texts interweave mythical...
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On the Poverty of Our Nomenclature

Eileen Crist
Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 129–147.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-3611266
Published: 01 May 2013
... on this legacy-in-the-making be judged by future people—as it is judged by a minority today—as a historical bequest of autism 32 to the human collective? And in a world where the idea of freedom enjoys superlative status, why are we not pursuing larger possibilities of freedom for people and nonhumans alike...
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Power and the River Lords: Hydropower, Spirits, and Heroes on the Mekong

Andrew Alan Johnson
Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 709–724.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-11327420
Published: 01 November 2024
... of kings and guardian spirits. 28 Security was one promise, but also rain or a healthy or productive year. This notion of being subject to distant powers generates both freedom and alienation. In Isan, one feels the influence of multiple distant powers at once. Bangkok exerts a force, as does China...
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Creation, Sin, and Debt: A Response to the Papal Encyclical Laudato si’

Philip Goodchild
Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 270–276.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-3664387
Published: 01 November 2016
... as the self-assertion of human freedom without acknowledging human obligations or natural finitude (§6). For a disruption of the harmony between Creator, humanity, and creation as a whole by “refusing to acknowledge our creaturely limitations” and presuming to take the place of God becomes manifest in a quest...
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Laudato Si’ and the Postsecularism of the Environmental Humanities

George B. Handley
Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 277–284.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-3664396
Published: 01 November 2016
... and antihuman interests of secular thought, and the metastatic ambitions of liberals for big, inefficient, and freedom-killing government. However, it is also a Christian argument for a Manichean worldview that positions human well-being over and against the fate of the earth. He fondly recites the story...
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Foreword: Earth Relations and the Rhetorics of Otherness

Elizabeth Ferry
Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 140–144.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-10746034
Published: 01 November 2023
.../Power/Truth/Freedom.” 5. Wilson, “Early Mineral Collectors.” 6. Genth, “Aguilarite,” 401 . 7. Neuendorf, Mehl, and Jackson, Glossary of Geology . 8. McKittrick, Sylvia Wynter . References Fagan Madeleine . “ On the Dangers of an Anthropocene Epoch...
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The Less Selfish Gene: Forest Altruism, Neoliberalism, and the Tree of Life

Rob Nixon
Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 348–371.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-9320189
Published: 01 November 2021
... to humanity to tackle the climate crisis with collective resolve collided with the political ascendancy of neoliberalism, an ideology hostile to the very idea of society. 12 Neoliberals promoted a culture of hyperindividualism and hyperconsumption that conflated freedom with atomized consumer choice...
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Plant Infrastructure: Mangoes, Race, and Empire in Early Twentieth-Century Miami

Tim Watson
Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 58–78.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-10943105
Published: 01 March 2024
... Destroyed a Black Community” ; Green, Black Miami-Dade , Instagram blog, https://www.instagram.com/blackmiamidade/ (accessed November 3, 2023); Capó, Welcome to Fairyland ; Rose, Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami . 45. “Bahamian Immigrants Stand Outside the Barnacle Boathouse,” Ralph M...
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Earth Becomes World?: Scientific Objects, Nonmodern Worlds, and the Metaphysics of the Anthropocene

Jochem Zwier, Bas de Boer
Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 64–86.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-10216162
Published: 01 March 2023
... reconsidering but a limited number of things: the Anthropocene predominantly affects one fraction of the modern bifurcation—namely, human freedom that has now become “tightly bound by a wild and defiant realm of necessity” 52 and must accordingly be newly attuned to Earth and its limits. This exposition...
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Thinking Through the Environment, Unsettling the Humanities

Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren, Matthew Chrulew, Stuart Cooke, Matthew Kearnes ...
Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 1–5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-3609940
Published: 01 May 2012
..., biodiversity loss and numerous other anthropogenic factors, requires us to rethink many of the concepts and ideals that have been central to our understandings and aspirations. 6 For example, Chakrabarty notes that while ‘freedom’ has been thought in numerous ways—one might even say that it “is a blanket...
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