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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 407–430.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Aimi Hamraie Abstract This article responds to two diverging notions of “livability”: the normative New Urbanist imaginary of livable cities, where the urban good life manifests in neoliberal consumer cultures, green gentrification, and inaccessible infrastructures, and the feminist and disability...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 233–238.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of the ‘good Anthropocene,’ an unlikely juxtaposition now amplified into the idea of the ‘great Anthropocene’ and set out in An Ecomodernist Manifesto. 2 There are no planetary boundaries that limit continued growth in human populations and economic advance, they argue. ‘Human systems' can adapt...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 270–276.
Published: 01 November 2016
... and the health of the planet. The encyclical adeptly weaves the new perspective of universal connectedness found in ecological thinking with liberationist concerns for economic justice as well as with more traditional Catholic social thinking grounded in the idea of the common good. Together, these three...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 208–230.
Published: 01 March 2023
... for grappling with the injustice of extinction as and in publics. Far from a glorified form of euthanasia, palliation is an ethic and a practice geared toward providing good or better deaths for particular entities under specific conditions of injustice. In death, palliation cedes to remembrance, an ethic...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 124–141.
Published: 01 July 2023
... policing and lighting. This essay, then, argues for critical caution regarding arts and narratives that only emphasize night’s wondrous qualities and its endangerment. Rather than framing night simply as a good phase to be protected, we might participate in night by addressing both the injustices...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 1–40.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... In this article we demonstrate the idea of invasive narratives through a case study of the ‘invasive alien species' (IAS) narrative in South Africa. We suggest that IAS reduces complex webs of ecological, biological, economic, and cultural relations to a simple ‘good’ versus ‘bad’ battle between easily...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 103–130.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Etienne Benson Abstract The fact that industrial infrastructures are embedded in complex environments animated by unexpected agencies is often invisible to their users—at least those who live in rich, industrialized societies with reliable systems for distributing water, power, and other goods...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 267–284.
Published: 01 May 2020
... to embrace ecological relationships within and beyond the soil. Prioritizing the integrity of soil ecosystems often requires reconceiving what soil is and should be. Soil can be difficult to see as ethically significant partly because it often appears as a granular bulk good, seemingly featureless...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 263–269.
Published: 01 November 2016
... the tendency of the modern economy to turn nature’s goods into commodities, as in the privatization of water, which turns water “into a commodity subject to the laws of the market.” He criticizes the economic plunder of forests, which reduces biodiversity and destroys the dwelling places of their indigenous...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 401–418.
Published: 01 July 2022
... one can connect the present to the future as fragments of this larger emergent oneiric whole. With this in place, one can do the ethical work of aligning one’s actions toward the future event that is thus “good” because it is understood to be a part of this totality. This form of finding...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 265–283.
Published: 01 July 2022
... Is a Good Tomato? A Case of Valuing in Practice . Valuation Studies 1 , no. 2 ( 2013 ): 125 – 46 . Hird Myra . The Origins of Sociable Life: Evolution after Science Studies . New York : Palgrave McMillan , 2009 . Johnston Catherine . “ Beyond the Clearing: Towards a Dwelt...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 125–148.
Published: 01 May 2014
... propositions about what makes good vermicomposting practice. Throughout this text, we will similarly shift between these voices and modes of addressing the reader. In a way, vermicomposters who write guides or advice do so in an ethnographic mode: they observe and take part in a set of practices, and they come...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 255–258.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... To be good—to be a good citizen, a good person—is to surrender what you value, what you love, for a “higher” cause. Sacrifice is also a problem of moral control. Sacrificial violence is pervasive, and cosmological—just pay attention to the arguments that weave through the next road development...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 219–225.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., “Climate and Capital: On Conjoined Histories,” Critical Inquiry 41, Autumn (2014). 6 Hamilton, “The Theodicy of the ‘Good Anthropocene.’” 5 Bruno Latour, “An Attempt at a ‘Compositionist Manifesto,’” New Literary History 41, no. 3 (2010): 471–90. 4 Also published...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 699–717.
Published: 01 November 2022
... no longer live in Hamilton—I have been moving in and out of this city my whole life, and in 2015 I left (most likely) for good. Much of my family still lives in Southern Ontario, though, so when I visit, I spend time here. I come here for walks with my friends and my kids. I have organized workshops...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 March 2023
... India and China and Australia. Environmental injustice is everywhere. . . . It’s about being called and treated as expendable people, as sacrificeable communities. It’s about sacrificing people for a greater good. They’re treated as sacrificeable communities, but they’re not expendable people!” 1...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 349–369.
Published: 01 November 2018
... in three mutually supportive but independent registers: first, in legal moves to claim ownership of what were historically Sámi lands by generating specific usufruct rights; second, by appealing to supposedly larger goods such as “the environment”; and third, by using market-oriented practices...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 256–262.
Published: 01 November 2016
... raise the same questions of theodicy as the horrors of war and test even the most ardent religious faith. The cry in this case is not simply hopelessness but also a cry of intense anger against God—the God of love, goodness, and justice. Pope Francis refuses to allow God to be blamed in this way...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 93–109.
Published: 01 May 2013
... when we worked together at the Australian National University in the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies (now part of the Fenner School), we became good colleagues as well as friends. Our commitment was to nurture the environmental humanities as an emerging interdisciplinary field that works...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 113–123.
Published: 01 May 2014
... authors' case studies and conceptual interventions. Taken together, we propose that the three papers can be read as tales of ‘awkward flourishing.’ Flourishing can be described as an ethic which enshrines life's emergence and the prospects or conditions for life's emergence as the good to be upheld...
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