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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 18–39.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Sarah Besky Abstract Darjeeling, a district in the Himalayan foothills of the Indian state of West Bengal, is a former colonial “hill station.” It is world famous both as a destination for mountain tourists and as the source of some of the world’s most expensive and sought-after tea. For decades...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 103–130.
Published: 01 May 2015
..., generating stations, and power lines with my own eyes, and in the process, I hope, to get some sense of how birds are living with that infrastructure today. Driving north from L.A., my destination is the collection of dams, reservoirs, tunnels, pipes, and powerhouses that tumbles down the western edge...
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View articletitled, Generating Infrastructural Invisibility: Insulation, Interconnection, and Avian Excrement in the Southern California Power Grid
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“Memory Effects” and Dark Histories: Ecological Light-Pollution Research and Nazi Legacies at Lake Stechlin
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 118–141.
Published: 01 March 2024
... in their work and publications. The bus dropped me off at the plaza. I dragged my suitcase across the cobblestones toward the train station. Bouncing along slowly, I glanced at a sign to my left—and stopped. The tourist bureau’s sign showed popular destinations for visitors. Below it a smaller, makeshift...
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Cotton, Whiteness, and Other Poisons
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 499–521.
Published: 01 November 2022
... farmers, who on average had far less capital than white farmers. 83 At the Tuskegee Institute’s agricultural experiment station, George Washington Carver recognized that commercial fertilizers were a key source of debt for Black farmers and tenants. He encouraged composting and the use of organic...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 247–279.
Published: 01 November 2019
... at Frankfurt Airport between 1958 and 1962. Employees of the regional ornithological station ( Vogelschutzwarte ), accompanied by technicians of the Telefunken Company, tried to scare away crows and starlings with mobile loudspeaker systems. The noise imitated the species’ cry of fear. 40 Today, airports...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 201–223.
Published: 01 May 2021
... arts and humanities into the Long-Term Ecological Research Project at the Virginia Coast Reserve. The CFC organizes collaborative inquiry and public engagement around several kinds of listening, from field recordings and designed listening stations as practices of attentiveness to scientific data...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 35–53.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of Environmentalism: Local Struggles, Global Histories . London : Bloomsbury , 2014 . Bate Jonathan . The Song of the Earth . London : Picador , 2000 [ 2001 ed.]). Bergthaller Hannes . “ ‘No More Eternal than the Hills of the Poets': Ecocriticism, Environmental History, and the Shifting...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 85–104.
Published: 01 July 2023
... of the oil and gas industry cited “air and water” solely in the context of the “free air and water” service stations offered “as a means of attracting customers.” 23 Despite increased public and political attention to the health risks of a toxic environment, leading to passage of a slew of new statutes...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 41–67.
Published: 01 May 2014
... nothing,” 90 and the late Tristram Cary described it as “a splendid environmental record.” 91 Within Our Reach received airplay on The Listening Room (ABC Radio) and local station 5UV. Plush has observed how, in offering himself as a conduit for community music-making in Port Adelaide...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 60–83.
Published: 01 May 2017
... conducted in the Turbine Hall, imagined as weather station with its own meteorological conditions. The data gathered were used not for research, however, but for the marketing campaign for the exhibition, creating a closed circuit for the project. Eliasson’s twenty-one–question survey began...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 69–84.
Published: 01 May 2012
... for its future. This paper explores four key drivers of conservation initiatives: place, landscape, biodiversity and livelihood, and how these shape environmental management in the Desert Channels region of south-western Queensland and in the Quantock hills in Somerset, England. The aim is to show how...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 51–87.
Published: 01 May 2020
... camps, chipping stations, and ancient mounds, all vestiges of a fleeting indigenous people who supposedly lived at one with nature. One also might discover the ruins of forts and abandoned portages once used by early French explorers and missionaries, or perhaps the abandoned farm site of an early Anglo...
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View articletitled, Multicultural Wilderness: Immigrants, African Americans, and Industrial Workers in the Forest Preserves and Dunes of Jazz-Age Chicago
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 19–39.
Published: 01 May 2014
... to repeatedly advocate for this vision. Arthur E. Morgan, on behalf of the first directors of TVA (Morgan was one of three original chairmen), described the agency's view of flooding and waste in an address delivered over NBC stations on 21 May, 1934. Morgan begins the address with the story of a catastrophic...
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A NeoPresocratic Manifesto
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 169–186.
Published: 01 May 2013
... on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism, ed. Rachel Stein (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004), 240-248. 18 Henry Beston, Outermost House (New York: Henry Holt & CO., 1928); Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire (New York: McGraw-Hill...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 226–240.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of swampy billabongs before reforming into the single channel that bisects the city. At the edge of this wetland plane, scarps of mudstone rise into a fork of the Great Dividing Range, creating a finger of hills that cradles the river and its valleys in a fringe of magnificent mountain ash forest...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 295–309.
Published: 01 May 2018
... while [she] was waiting for the train” at a station in Oslo. 24 Lindow suggests that when a person operates within a particular cultural context and is under stress, tired, or drunk and is then presented with a “releasing stimulus, usually of only one sense,” their mind fills in the blanks...
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Many Nights: Poetry and Time Lapse of the Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 124–141.
Published: 01 July 2023
... areas beneath the night sky. The city’s lights cast a glow over the hills and the lake. These golden lights contrast with the shadowy hills, giving form to the landscape shown in the time lapse. Murphy utilizes the interplay of light and darkness to make a reference to and even to tell a story about...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 407–430.
Published: 01 November 2020
...-quartered density, sustainability, and multiple forms of mobility. Yet the absence of capitalism renders different outcomes both in terms of design and social relations. In real-world livability developments, such as Atlantic Station in Atlanta, Georgia, planners purport to design spaces that are public...
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“Bringing Humanity Full Circle Back into the Sea”: Homo aquaticus , Evolution, and the Ocean
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2022
... survival undersea, the 1975 science fiction novel Red Tide posits that the pressure at great depths could change a body to enable survival there. An experimental station on the Cobb seamount at 110 feet, which is dedicated to researching how humans could live independently underwater, receives orders...
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Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres (1991) and Archival Reimaginations of Eco-Cosmopolitanism
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 May 2013
... Many, at What Standard of Living, and Over What Period of Time?” (lecture, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Oct. 25, 1990), Norman H. Borlaug Papers, 1941-1997, Special Collections Department, Parks Library, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 8. 29 Smiley, A Thousand Acres, 168...
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