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Killing in More-Than-Human Spaces: Pasteurisation, Fungi, and the Metabolic Lives of Wine
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 171–194.
Published: 01 May 2014
... species of fungi—botrytis and yeasts 10 —which both make their living by biochemically transforming grape sugars. It is these fungal species' metabolic incompatibility, their inability to thrive together, that initially makes botrytis a problem for human winemakers like Nathan. Because human winemakers...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 554–570.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Hannah Rachel Cole Abstract The biologist Merlin Sheldrake has named the tendency for humans to privilege plants to the exclusion of fungi “plant-centrism.” Connecting Sheldrake’s claim to critiques of the Caribbean plantation system, this article argues that plant-centrism is inherent...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 141–154.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Anna Tsing Abstract Human nature is an interspecies relationship. In this essay, Haraway's concept of companion species takes us beyond familiar companions to the rich ecological diversity without which humans cannot survive. Following fungi, we forage in the last ten thousand years of human...
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Labyrinth
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 237–239.
Published: 01 March 2022
... It is possible to argue that this domination of both nature and women has also been accompanied by a lack of care: this is power without responsibility. 4 The fungal partners in the labyrinthine ant plant team have been overlooked. 5 Like many other marginalized communities, the fungi in fact play...
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Fecundity
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 460–463.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... A tapestry of bubbling, fermenting sourdough. Credit: Alex Phaneuf. Fecundity as a performance of living and dying in concert with other beings is perhaps best exemplified by the flourishing of fungi. Feeding upon what is both living and dead, fungi are not always “benign” but can be “ferocious...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 49–70.
Published: 01 March 2022
... are not themselves seen. 4 But what about the tracks and trails of other landscape actors and movements that are not human or animal? Unlike tracking, gathering is the practicing of finding and collecting plants, fungi, and other entities often described as being immobile and visible. 5 But these, too, have...
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Forests as Markets: The Overstory , Neoliberalism, and Other Fictions of Spontaneous Order
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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 (2): 1–18.
Published: 01 July 2023
... harmful metabolisms of insects and fungi become integral parts of plantation cultivation—though not always successfully. The article widens our understanding of how green production methods are envisioned not as alternatives to but rather as support for industrial cultivation systems. Organic tea...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Thom van Dooren; Eben Kirksey; Ursula Münster Abstract Scholars in the humanities and social sciences are experimenting with novel ways of engaging with worlds around us. Passionate immersion in the lives of fungi, microorganisms, animals, and plants is opening up new understandings, relationships...
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Ethical Acknowledgment of Soil Ecosystem Integrity amid Agricultural Production in Australia
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 267–284.
Published: 01 May 2020
.... Each different plant species secretes a unique mix of sugars to attract particular microbes. 30 Most partner with mycorrhizal fungi, which help to build soil structure by excreting carbon polymers that hold together stable aggregates, such as the glue-like substance, glomalin. 31 These fungi tend...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 348–371.
Published: 01 November 2021
... communities meet and mingle? The Canadian ecologist Suzanne Simard emerges as a pivotal figure in all of this. Working in British Columbia Simard uncovered an intricate fungal network that enables trees to connect with other trees, plants, and fungi. This network allows the parties involved to trade...
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Weird
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 275–280.
Published: 01 May 2021
... and Enhances the Growth of Melanized Fungi .” PLoS One 2 , no. 5 ( 2007 ): e457 . de Freitas Elizabeth , and Truman Sarah E. “ New Empiricisms in the Anthropocene: Thinking with Speculative Fiction About Science and Social Inquiry .” Qualitative Inquiry , August 6 , 2020 . doi.org...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 129–149.
Published: 01 May 2018
.... . . . The classical example of symbiosis is between fungi and algae or, alternatively, fungi and cyanobacteria. The rock-clinging abilities of fungi, combined with the light-using abilities of photosynthetic organisms, hone these organisms into a new unit —lichens—with combined capacities to take energy from...
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Endangered
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 259–263.
Published: 01 May 2016
... (reflecting human enthusiasms). The number of described species in groups like plants, fungi and invertebrates lags far behind estimates of global species richness. 10 Summary statistics for 2015 indicate that 44% of known species of reptiles were evaluated, 39% of fishes, 7% of plants, 1% of invertebrates...
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Landscape and Inscription
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 143–148.
Published: 01 May 2016
... Pine Beetles in Colorado,” www.fs.fed.us/rmrs/docs/bark-beetle/faq.pdf (accessed November 18, 2015). 4. Ibid. 5. Sims et al., “Complementarity in the Provision of Ecosystem Services.” 6. Rice, Thormann, and Langor, “Mountain Pine Beetle Associated Blue Stain Fungi.” 7. US...
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On Auks and Awkwardness
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 195–205.
Published: 01 May 2014
... in awkwardness exemplified in this strand of work foregrounds lifeforms that are corporeally, ecologically and socially strange—both in theory and in practice. Insects, fungi and other microbes feature prominently here. As do submarine, subterranean and nocturnal worlds alien to prevalent human geographies. 5...
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Unmaking Soil Mastery: Postscript
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 285–287.
Published: 01 May 2020
... instead of molecules, because food production, they propose, will come from neither molecules or microbes, nor even from a new a combination of both, but from the ways in which attentive activities bed into terra the complex relations of water, fungi, molecules, seeds, biodiversity, animals, humans...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 159–165.
Published: 01 May 2015
.... Bacteria and fungi abound to give us metaphors; but, metaphors aside (good luck with that!), we have a mammalian job to do, with our biotic and abiotic sym-poietic collaborators, co-laborers. We need to make kin sym-chthonically, sym-poetically. Who and whatever we are, we need to make-with—become...
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Arboromorphism
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 233–236.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Became a Tree . New Delhi : Aleph Book Company , 2017 . Sheldrake Merlin . Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our World, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures . London : Bodley Head , 2020 . Smith Ali . Autumn . London : Hamish Hamilton , 2016 . Wohlleben Peter...
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Chemosociality in Multispecies Worlds: Endangered Frogs and Toxic Possibilities in Sydney
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 23–50.
Published: 01 May 2020
... allows visitors to view the habitat of the green and golden bell frog. High-rise apartment buildings are sprouting up in the landscape just beyond this postindustrial conservation zone. Photograph by Eben Kirksey. Chytrid fungi were determined to be the main threat to green and golden bell frogs...
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