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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 842–849.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Christos Lynteris [email protected] © 2024 Christos Lynteris 2024 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). One culture’s villain is another culture’s hero. Paraphrasing the tired political aphorism...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Martin Hultman Abstract In 2007, Arnold Schwarzenegger received the European Campaigner of the Year award. Chosen by the readers of European Voice for his work on solving global environmental problems, he was hailed as a visionary environmental hero, at the pinnacle of his popularity...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 697–708.
Published: 01 November 2024
... environmental catastrophes, deadly pandemics, and deepening global inequalities, figures of heroes and villains abound. Ranging from selfless conservationists to uncaring states, protective cosmic beings to COVID-19, and climate-friendly crops to industrial plantations, such figures are conjured by multiple...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 709–724.
Published: 01 November 2024
... as activists and lobbyists. In addition, these religious figures present multiple perspectives on how to live in a changed world and a model of resistance that challenges how we might see political power and its heroes. [email protected] © 2024 Andrew Alan Johnson 2024 This is an open...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 725–745.
Published: 01 November 2024
... vaunted varieties in the tuber population itself, which here are called tuberous heroes. While popularly dismissed as a humble crop, the potato has also been acknowledged as having changed world history for both the better and the worse. An analysis of these antagonistic evaluations reveals how struggles...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 766–783.
Published: 01 November 2024
... is neither quite hero nor villain to Batek, these refusals are when Batek cease to become oil palm’s perfect victims. It is these moments that I am often encouraged to share, to teach people that “this is what Batek do,” this is “our way of living.” This persistence is facilitated by the fact that (at least...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 826–841.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Columba González-Duarte Abstract This article explores the theme of heroes and villains in relation to the conservation of the North American monarch butterfly. The monarch butterfly is a migratory insect that performs an annual four-thousand-kilometer journey across Canada, the United States...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 162–182.
Published: 01 March 2024
... as symbols of the wild rather than a source of actual experience for specific individuals. 25 For exploration scholarship, Mary Louise Pratt examines romantic love and contrasts travel narratives that foreground the “sentimental hero” against “scientific, informational travel writing.” But her sentimental...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 807–825.
Published: 01 November 2024
.... 8 Each highlights a distinct set of heroes, villains, and victims, exemplifying the multiplicity, contextual versatility, and at times contradictory ambiguity of Sowa Rigpa discourse. Besides Sowa Rigpa practitioners themselves, the heroic spectrum includes medical and paramedical professionals...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 784–806.
Published: 01 November 2024
... breeds, into unconventional farming practices. Climate heroes and villains are thus constructed—and blame is apportioned—according to unequal economic pressures and demands. Ultimately it is market logic that drives metabolic interventions, meaning heroism and villainy in the ecomodernist Anthropocene...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 501–527.
Published: 01 November 2018
...-maker, the hero—this is the Man-making tale of the hunter on a quest to kill and bring back the terrible bounty. This is the cutting, sharp, combative tale of action that defers the suffering of glutinous [ sic ], earth rotted passivity beyond bearing.” 45 In the classic hero narrative...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 49–70.
Published: 01 March 2022
...,” developed by feminist science fiction writer Ursula LeGuin in her “Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction.” 40 LeGuin is concerned about the overemphasis on the hero who acts. While the hunter-hero makes for a good story, LeGuin argues, this trope is too reliant on the action of a hero that culminates in a kill...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 45–65.
Published: 01 May 2021
... between “liberty and trauma, power and impotence, [and] opportunity and injury.” 15 It transformed such binary pairs into a story that, in line with the petromodern paradox, resolved those contradictions, always in favor of the positive term and in ways where oil and oil men were the heroes. 16...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 201–210.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., be rising directly behind a mesquite tree that had spent the last eighty years or so clawing a living out of a limestone slope. And so, with the assistance of recent alumna Madison Whitley, a chainsaw (the unsung heroes of literary criticism?) was deployed, the mesquite felled, and the solstice awaited...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 100–117.
Published: 01 March 2024
... to the village, but his participation in the ritual is empty of meaning. Ironically, the gesture, which figures into what the party deems “wasteful” is done to welcome the return of the general, who is a national and party hero. It seems then that the criticism, on the parts of both writers, is less around...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 370–396.
Published: 01 November 2018
...”; and Head et al., “Living with Invasive Plants.” 18. For example, see Evans et al., “Adaptive Management”; Graham and Ernston, “Comanagement at the Fringes.” 19. Drower, Garden Heroes and Villains . It is worth noting, however, that there is evidence that it was present in Irish forests prior...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 746–765.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., during the national meeting of Indonesian palm oil farmers in 2019, the coordinating minister for maritime and investment affairs stated, “Because palm oil makes a big contribution to the economy and has an important role for Indonesia, you are national heroes.” Alternate scientific “facts” (Ind. fakta...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 257–272.
Published: 01 May 2018
.... We also walk in the path of the soldier of the Second World War who passed this way but never returned. And also in the path of the nineteenth-century folk hero, the bandit Toroi Bandi, who stole the horses of the Manchurian rulers. And some paths along the road take us yet deeper in time: the path...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 43–56.
Published: 01 May 2013
... Fishery (Sydney: NSW Department of Agriculture, 2005). 42 Paul Robbins, “The Politics of Barstool Biology: Environmental Knowledge and Power in Greater Northern Yellowstone,” Geoforum , 37 (2006): 185-199; Francis Putz, “Are Rednecks the Unsung Heroes of Ecosystem Management?” Wild Earth 13...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 441–459.
Published: 01 July 2024
..., “Toward an Irreverent Ecocriticism,” 63 . 6. Murray and Heumann, Film, Environment, Comedy ; Murray and Heumann, “Comic Eco-hero” ; Weik von Mosser, “Love in the Times of Ecocide” ; Traub, “From the Grotesque to Nuclear-Age Precedents” ; Zekavat, “Satire, Humor, and Ecological Thought...
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