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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 202–215.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., NJ : Princeton University Press , 2011 . Dayan Colin . With Dogs at the Edge of Life . New York : Columbia University Press , 2015 . Finney Carolyn . Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors . Chapel Hill...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 117–146.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Daegan Miller Abstract In the fall of 1846, the first of 3,000 African American settlers set foot on their 40-acre plots in the Great Northern Wilderness of New York State, a place we now call the “forever wild” wilderness of the Adirondack State Park. These black settlers were the initial wave...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 150–170.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Petra Tjitske Kalshoven Abstract Extinct as a result of overhunting and habitat loss, the great auk, or garefowl, leads a hidden taxidermied existence in museum storerooms, sheltered from potential further degradation. As an environmental icon, however, the bird inspires a lively political economy...
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in Piecing Together the Extinct Great Auk: Techniques and Charms of Contiguity
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2018
Figure 3. Pierre-Yves Renkin with a great auk model, near Namur, Belgium, 2016. Photograph by the author
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in Piecing Together the Extinct Great Auk: Techniques and Charms of Contiguity
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2018
Figure 4. Brussels great auk specimen, Institut royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique, Brussels, 2016. Photograph by the author
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 203–216.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Alexa Weik von Mossner Abstract Covering the time span from 2021 to 16000 N.C., Dale Pendell's speculative novel The Great Bay chronicles the profound climatic, geological and ecological transformations that California undergoes during these fourteen millennia. Human life becomes unimaginably small...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 203–217.
Published: 01 May 2016
... be identified not only in the stratigraphic record, but also in the body of Earth's ocean. 2 If “Under the Wave at Kanagawa” (also “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” or, simply, “The Great Wave”) in its early circulations emblematized the historical relation of Japan to the sea and to the transnational...
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Published: 01 May 2014
Figure 1 A painting by Archibald Thorburn (1860-1930) entitled The Great Auk surrounded by its true relatives. Courtesy of the Wikimedia Commons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Auks.jpg .
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Published: 01 May 2014
Figure 2 Stuffed great auk at Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow. Image © Mike Pennington. Used under a CC BY-SA 2.0 license.
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Published: 01 May 2014
Figure 1 Geirfugl / Great Auk, sculpture in aluminium by Ólöf Nordal 1998. (Photo: © Vigfús Birgisson, published with kind permission of Ólöf Nordal).
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in In the “Fissures of Infrastructure”: Poetry and Toxicity in “Garbage Arcadia”
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 2. and every now and then a great crash (2016), collage from Jennifer Scappettone’s The Republic of Exit 43: Outtakes and Scores from an Archaeology and Pop-Up Opera of the Corporate Dump , 95.
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Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 2. Wando advertisement in appendix of Holmes, Phosphate Rocks of South Carolina and the “Great Carolina Marl Bed” (1870).
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Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 5. “The Graph of Global Warming,” on Chris Madden Cartoons, http://www.chrismadden.co.uk/cartoon-gallery/environment-cartoon-hokusai-the-great-wave/ . Copyright Chris Madden. Reproduced with Permission.
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 57–77.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Amanda Hagood Abstract Recent scholarship on the work of the great nature writer, Rachel Carson, posits that her landmark book, Silent Spring (1962)—often credited with igniting the modern environmental movement—is best understood in the context of her earlier, extraordinarily popular publications...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 171–201.
Published: 01 May 2014
... connotations of the disembodied “god trick” found in these extraterrestrial photographs. As evidenced already in the 1950s at the landmark Man and Nature conference at Princeton and in the wildlife documentaries of Bernhard and Michael Grzimek, moreover, the first decades of the Great Acceleration witnessed...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 142–161.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Jane Robbins Mize Abstract This article argues that Lorine Niedecker’s 1968 poem “Lake Superior” reveals a limitation of recent scholarly investments in the concept of geological “deep time.” “Lake Superior” is a meditation on deep time; the Europeans who colonized the Great Lakes; and Lake...
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in Fractal Eaarth: Visualizing the Global Environment in the Anthropocene
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2014
Figure 5 “The Coastline Paradox.” This image from Mandelbrot's 1967 paper models the coastline paradox: the property that the measured length of a stretch of a deeply indented coastline like Great Britain's depends on the scale of measurement. Smaller scales reveal new details, down
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 195–205.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Figure 1 A painting by Archibald Thorburn (1860-1930) entitled The Great Auk surrounded by its true relatives. Courtesy of the Wikimedia Commons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Auks.jpg . ...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 172–195.
Published: 01 November 2016
.... Ibid. 66. Adams, Place Where You Go to Listen , 1. References Adams John Luther . Earth and the Great Weather: A Sonic Geography of the Arctic . New York : New World Records , 1994 . CD and booklet. Adams John Luther . Inuksuit . Brooklyn, MA : Cantaloupe Music...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 461–464.
Published: 01 November 2019
... out in his book The Great Derangement . 2 Notwithstanding Ghosh’s indictment of “literary fiction” 3 for its failure to engage with climate change, there is evidence that the geological forces that underwrite earth systems have been working their way into literary imaginaries. Geological...
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