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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 725–745.
Published: 01 November 2024
... for supercrops. This exploration of shifting vegetal virtuosity highlights the ecological attunement of partial exemplarity when compared with the expected ubiquity of heroic and villainous crops. The contrast between heroic and partial exemplarity highlights how a plant becomes an ethical companion offering...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 697–708.
Published: 01 November 2024
.... In a similar vein, Angé and Searle, Turnbull, and Oliver use different scaling devices to unsettle prevalent capitalist and technoscientific logics. Against generic capitalist depictions of the potato as a heroic, prolific, profitable crop, Angé draws attention to the “nuanced vegetal appreciation...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 255–258.
Published: 01 May 2016
... term is uncertainty. Will the sacrifice work? Will it be accepted? 5 Will it prove my devotion, will the crops grow, will the promised jobs materialise, will the return be effected? In the consummation of its violence, before the return manifests, sacrifice opens itself to an uncertain, unknowable...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 766–783.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of colonialism’s power and with demonstrating the colonized’s agency in resisting or overcoming these conditions.” 54 These are Romance narratives that may fetishize overcoming, salvation, and redemption, relying on a utopian—heroic—horizon. 55 But in this problem space, Scott’s tragedy may be more...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 182–201.
Published: 01 March 2022
... only fictional piece of writing, The Heroic Slave , which tells the story of the flight of Madison Washington. 30 Some historians have used it too. In her book on the Maroons of the United States, Slavery’s Exiles: The History of the American Maroons , Sylviane Diouf does occasionally designate...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 149–170.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Kelsey Green; Franklin Ginn Abstract The sudden decline of bee pollinator populations worldwide has caused significant alarm, not least because Apis mellifera, the European honeybee, is thought to be responsible for pollination of 71 of the 100 crop species which provide 90% of the world's food...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 709–724.
Published: 01 November 2024
... a rich layer of sediment for the dry season’s crop. But the river is not just water, rocks, and trees. The world of fish expands and contracts with the monsoon pulse; the very boundaries of an aquatic world move (unlike, significantly, property lines drawn on maps). As former riverbank farms...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 280–299.
Published: 01 November 2017
... treasures: “innumerable potential new foods, drugs, and useful products may yet be discovered—if we do not burn down the library first . . . the very basis of our civilization—our crops, domestic animals and many of our medicines and industrial products—have been derived from the planet’s vast genetic...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 49–70.
Published: 01 March 2022
... on understandings of consciousness and intentionality deemed relatable to humans and other animals (even if only as metaphor). Science and technology studies help here. Writing against theories of agency that center on the “heroic” human individual for which nonhuman entities exist merely as resources, feminist...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 171–201.
Published: 01 May 2014
... to amend the day-to-day environmental insults suffered by billions of the world's poorest citizens: “dirty air, polluted water, inadequate sanitation, infectious diseases, damaged crops, loss of green spaces, and the decay of built environments.” 46 And just a few years later, President Reagan removed...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 680–698.
Published: 01 November 2022
... account still largely focalized and limited by his perspective, it is difficult to determine here who is doing the seeing. Although the cultivation of this mysterious crop dissolves a nature-culture divide still somewhat upheld in the artificial gardens of Metropolis , it also suspends individual...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 321–340.
Published: 01 July 2022
... into the atmosphere water vapor as a metabolic by-product on the order of 1,000 liters each day. By replacing colossal beings that maintained a humid atmosphere, preventing their regrowth, and releasing much less water into the air, grasses and crops were actively creating increasingly dry futures in Amazonia...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 746–765.
Published: 01 November 2024
... The devaluation of swidden agriculturalists’ ethnoecological knowledge is paralleled by an industry-affiliated discourse that frames palm oil and palm oil farmers as overtly positive, even heroic, while actively creating ignorance about the crop’s adverse social and environmental implications. 59 For instance...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 27–51.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of children, to heroic portraits of EJ activists in the field. In one of the few works that explicitly engages the value of the portrait to EJ work, Joshua Trey Barnett elaborates the potential of what he calls “toxic portraits” or “close-up, in situ photographs of people in toxically assaulted places...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 117–146.
Published: 01 May 2013
... witness to the truth that fruitful lives and fruitful societies and a fruitful earth are all necessary for each other's safe-keeping. 38 Rather than the heroic individualism of Jefferson's white yeoman farmer, or the narrow community of white southern aristocracy, the utopian agrarians were guided...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 247–279.
Published: 01 November 2019
... into the 1950s, the airport was a member of a local farming cooperative cultivating vegetables, crops, and livestock. Looking at sheep especially helps to understand how the two spaces—animal habitats and the emerging airspace—coexisted and were partially connected: several hundred sheep were part...
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