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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 May 2014
...David Farrier Abstract This article argues that the Anthropocene is marked by haunted time. As the ‘geological agents’ of climate change, as Dipesh Chakrabarty has put it, we both identify with ‘deep time’ processes and conjure the ghosts of those whose lives to come will be shaped in drastic ways...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 295–309.
Published: 01 May 2018
.... In this era of unprecedented human power over the natural world, the Shuck—the mere sight of whom brings death—still haunts us; his chthonic presence reminding us of the inexorable yet unpredictable power of death. By attending the monstrous, spectral ambiguity of the Shuck and his ability to reformulate...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 310–329.
Published: 01 May 2018
... as being haunted by the legacy of one’s actions into deep time. Notwithstanding its critical reception among certain philosophers, a confessing tone may become increasingly pertinent to activists, artists, and faith communities making sense of humanity’s ethical commitments in deep time. 41...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 213–225.
Published: 01 May 2018
... time as an abstract concept, we explore how deep time manifests through places, objects, and practices. Focusing on three modes through which deep time is encountered—enchantment, violence, and haunting—we introduce deep time as an intimate element woven into everyday lives. Deep time stories, we...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 23–55.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of Palo Verde, multiple social and ecological worlds went to war. The haunting specter of capital joined the fray—animating the movements of cattle, grasses with animal rhizomes, rice seeds, and flighty ducks across national borders and through fragmented landscapes. Amidst this warfare, the fringe-toed...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 40–59.
Published: 01 May 2017
... the sea. Meanwhile, earthworms active in the “artificial earth” of the reclamation undermine and bury objects such as lost coins and cigarette butts, causing them to subside into the earth at a rate of a few millimeters a year. Haunting the essay are the specters of rising and falling sea levels and my...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 321–345.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Adam Searle Abstract The spectacle of de-extinction is often forward facing at the interface of science fiction and speculative fact, haunted by extinction’s pasts. Missing from this discourse, however, is a robust theorization of de-extinction in the present. This article presents recent...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 346–369.
Published: 01 May 2020
... the wildcat’s conservation as a sort of haunting. Existing as a wild emblem through a concentrated media campaign of inflated presence, it nonetheless remains hidden through hybridization and absence: a spectral being. The article therefore suggests that to truly save the wildcat is to account for its...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 264–271.
Published: 01 May 2021
... writer W. G. Sebald, whose novel about walking the East Anglian coast The Rings of Saturn I reread for the occasion, is often quoted for his attempt to describe it, sensing in that place out to sea “the immense power of emptiness.” 4 Emptiness, but also a haunting presence. Along that coastal...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 296–320.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Unable to raise young, maintain an eyrie, 4 or find a mate, the spectral presence of a few lonely birds haunted former Scottish breeding locations in the closing decades of the nineteenth century before their eventual disappearance from the list of recorded British breeding birds. When the species...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 167–172.
Published: 01 May 2020
... ontology. 1 Absences are not immaterial. Hauntings materialize through their inseparability from pre-existing material conditions, 2 their anachrony realized through the forging of new relations in response. Humans and nonhumans leave their traces on the world alike, 3 with unequal endurances...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 624–642.
Published: 01 November 2024
... through a forest haunted by the scattered remains of the land’s agrarian past. This analysis examines the pedagogical potential for confronting the anthropocentric violence inflicted on wild and farmed animals alike through a commitment to literary and place-based education that engages Charlotte’s...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 807–825.
Published: 01 November 2024
... experienced individual hauntings by usually familiar humans, gods, ghosts, or animals demanding interpersonal repair. 41 In Neshar’s words in particular, a somewhat personified nature has completely substituted any mention of spirits—likely to not come across as superstitious—while maintaining the same...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 291–308.
Published: 01 July 2024
... a real sense of dying as extirpation. 16 “Haunting belongs to the structure of every hegemony” because it reveals that the state and other paradigmatically modern institutions like the plantation and the corporation are incapable of fully extinguishing the violent and traumatic ramifications...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 501–506.
Published: 01 November 2019
... the particular way in which (neo)liberal politics have enveloped knowledge making in Chile with technocratic notions of value, objectivity, and validity, and to wonder about the extent to which the imperative of a purified science cleansed from any normative interference haunted us, still, that morning in Las...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 May 2015
... work which explores “motifs of absence, distance, loss and haunting” 9 in order to counter the stressing of presence in recent treatments of landscape, which focus upon embodiment, materiality and perception. I explore a similar set of motifs, but in doing so hope to develop two main themes. Firstly...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 137–151.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., traditions, even of generational time itself. The image of the poisoned mother brought the cyclic biological substrate of time into question, animating it as vulnerable and haunted by the possibility of disruption or irreversible collapse. With this, transmission and reproduction were rendered as fundamental...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 245–263.
Published: 01 May 2021
... of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). What is shared has often been arbitrarily partitioned in the past by exercises of power returning to haunt the present. This is elegantly captured by the Canadian Mississauga Nishnaabeg writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson in her poem “Big Water,” in which...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 84–107.
Published: 01 May 2017
... been more attentive) that Unchi was killed. Afterward, Jody descended into what Holly called a depression that lasted eight months. That is, he grew silent, lost his appetite, became socially withdrawn, and refused to play. He seemed to be haunted by Unchi’s death, but perhaps he was also haunted...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 233–236.
Published: 01 March 2022
... lichen, insects, and birds. Trees are multispecies assemblages, trees are transcorporeal—each tree body, like each human body, is a “nexus of life and growth within a meshwork of relations . . . not limited by the skin.” 14 Trees are also ghosts, haunting our landscapes; Methuselah, Pando, The Major...
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