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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 301–322.
Published: 01 November 2021
... mentioned by Shakespeare. This article uses the methods of literary history to investigate this popular anecdote. Today starlings are much despised as an invasive species that displaces native birds and does almost a billion dollars worth of damage to agriculture annually. Because of the starling’s pest...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 602–617.
Published: 01 November 2022
... phytopoetic history of plants and sexuality, it demonstrates with the help of literature how plants have been shaping human culture—in this context, the sociocultural norms and understandings of sex, gender, and sexuality. Moving from vegetal visions of virtuous, virginal women-plants and their corruption...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 235–250.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Adam Bobbette Abstract This article presents an alternative political history of recent planetary thought through an examination of geopoetics rooted in the colonial politics of Indonesia and Cold War geosciences. This history reveals how geopoetics has not been marginal or critical of dominant...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 March 2024
... histories, this article instead shows that failed commodity crops like Ficus elastica , locally known as Jri Bamon in Meghalaya, India, exhibited recalcitrance to a range of state and scientific regimes. In an argument that disrupts the European-centered narrative about the triumphant expansion of knowledge...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 57–68.
Published: 01 May 2012
... part in the author's perceptual history. Burrs and burrows are two of its key features. Copyright: © Lee 2012 2012 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). This license permits use and distribution of the article for non-commercial...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 261–276.
Published: 01 May 2014
... with particular fervour, namely ecocriticism and environmental history. After outlining an ideal of slow scholarship which cultivates thinking across different spatiotemporal scales and seeks to sustain meaningful public debate, the essay argues that both ecocriticism and environmental history are concerned...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 147–167.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of history? Our response follows two main lines of thought. The first relates to the concept of the ‘Anthropocene’ and the possibilities that it offers historians to reconsider their subject in the light of what earth science is saying about earth history and our particularly recent role in its shaping. From...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 May 2013
... svensk energi- och miljöpolitik 1978-2005. 43 Hultman and Yaras, “The Socio-Technological History of Hydrogen and Fuel Cells 1978-2005 in Sweden; Mapping the Innovation Trajectory,” 12043–12053. 44 Jeffords, “The Big Switch,” 196–208. 45 Alegre, “Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mister...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 118–141.
Published: 01 March 2024
...’ definition of the environment. The author argues that contemporary ecological light-pollution research in greater Berlin can take place because of the site’s longer naturalcultural history, which includes the Nazi regime’s role in creating the nature reserve where Lake Stechlin and scientific infrastructure...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 680–691.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Pandora Syperek; Sarah Wade Abstract Oceans have proliferated in artworks and exhibitions in recent years, coinciding with a surge of scholarship in the blue humanities and critical ocean studies. However, despite the extensive art history of the sea, artistic and curatorial knowledge has been...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 427–460.
Published: 01 November 2019
... in this broad area still often comes under a variety of other names (in large part shaped by local institutional histories), but is increasingly incorporating a greater emphasis on scholarship and approaches from EH. For example, at Arizona State University, where the first free-standing School...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 641–660.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Marianna Szczygielska Abstract Contemporary zoological gardens are hoping to delay the sixth mass extinction through captive breeding of endangered species. This article explores the dominant temporal orders invoked by managing animal sex in captivity in order to unfold unnatural histories...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2022
... contemplation of the human evolutionary relationship to the sea, encouraging readers “to imagine a fantastic metamorphic marine in which any organism might rapidly perform the physiological transformations that structure his evolutionary history.” 15 Long before scientists looked seaward to contemplate...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 264–271.
Published: 01 May 2021
... residents making their decisions now. At what point did those earlier people choose to pack up and leave? Did some refuse to move on or disbelieve that disaster would befall them too? The histories of coastal destruction are an interplay between climatic change, the economic and cultural factors...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 183–200.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., though products of different histories, belong to the same continuous geographic territory on the German-Czech border; and Pyrenees National Park, which is situated at the porous border between France and Spain and is part of the transboundary Pyrénées–Mont Perdu UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. While it may...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 433–440.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Ayushi Dhawan; Simone M. Müller Abstract This special section seeks to reconsider our troubled times and their histories of irreversible toxic pollution through the lens of hopeful yet critical ways of engaging with this unprecedented condition of life. Thinking with “hazardous hope” as a tool...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 643–660.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., it was also the promise that energy flows could be turned into stocks, and that they could escape the tyranny of seasonality, at least for a while. The anthropologist David Graeber and the archaeologist David Wengrow revised large parts of human history in their book The Dawn of Everything (2021...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 19–35.
Published: 01 March 2024
... . Solnit Rebecca . A Field Guide to Getting Lost . New York : Penguin , 2006 . Starosielski Natasha . “ Beyond Fluidity: A Cultural History of Cinema under Water .” In Ecocinema Theory and Practice , edited by Rust Stephen , Monani Salma , and Cubitt Sean , 149 – 68...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 69–84.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of commonalities, particularly about who are the experts in managing the future of the natural world. The commonalities reflect global forces that are changing the environmental management of local places. The paper considers the value of art, history and the broader humanities in enriching and critiquing global...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 359–377.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Leah V. Aronowsky Abstract This article uses the history of an unrealized technology to rethink conventional accounts of American spaceflight that cast the space cabin as the ultimate expression of human’s capacity to technologically master their environments. Drawing on archival and published...