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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 427–460.
Published: 01 November 2019
... interdisciplinary field, with scholars from a diverse range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences—as well as collaborators from beyond the academy—drawn into close conversations with one another. These collaborations have characteristically included a central engagement with histories and ongoing...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 247–279.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Jaclin for inviting us to their workshops, seminars, and conference panels. We thank Dagmar Schäfer for funding our stay at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and Lisa Onaga, Tamar Novick, Rebecca Woods, and the working group The Body of Animals for their support and comments...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 641–660.
Published: 01 November 2022
... advertisement for the Central Park Zoological Gardens in the New York Times described the overlapping of science and popular education: “The Zoological Gardens have rendered real service to natural history by popularizing the knowledge of animals, and giving science a holiday air. They add to the pleasures...
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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
... humanities approach that brings together the insights of the natural sciences on the ecological features of conservation, and social sciences work on its political and governance elements, with the cultural aspects of conservation. We take conservation humanities to be an emerging field that, broadly defined...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 643–660.
Published: 01 November 2024
...—it becomes resistant. This occurs because there is a finite solution of electrons in the battery’s electrolytic solution. Often the battery gets warm. In doing so, we can observe entropy. The US Vietnam War veteran and historian of science Richard Schallenberg wrote a history of the battery...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 69–84.
Published: 01 May 2012
... and Paul Warde. I also acknowledge strategic discussions with my colleagues in the Ely Institute and in the Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Division of History of Science and Technology, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. I am grateful to Peter Coates for the invitation to the workshop...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 261–276.
Published: 01 May 2014
... . Jacoby Karl . Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2001 . Jasanoff Sheila . Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States . Princeton : Princeton...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 359–377.
Published: 01 November 2017
... ; Hayles, Chaos Bound ; Lilienfeld, Rise of Systems Theory ; Pickering, Cybernetic Brain . 31. Both Howard and Eugene Odum are seminal figures in the history of American ecology and are considered to have pioneered the discipline as a science of systems. For more on the Odums, see Golley...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 433–453.
Published: 01 November 2017
... by “intelligence,” “technology,” and “civilization”? What makes them possible, and how do they evolve? The present examination aims to arrive at a more well-founded search for extraterrestrial intelligence that takes into account current research within cognitive science, the history of technology, and the history...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 310–329.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Stefan Skrimshire Abstract What is the best way to communicate with far future human (and/or posthuman) societies? This sounds like a question for science fiction, but I ask it in the context of a pressing issue in environmental ethics: the (very) long-term disposal of high-level spent radioactive...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 72–100.
Published: 01 May 2019
... . Freund Richard A. Digging through History: Archaeology and Religion from Atlantis to the Holocaust . Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield , 2012 . Funk Cary , and Alper Becka A. “ Religion and Views on Climate and Energy Issues .” Pew Research Center: Internet, Science and Tech...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 62–84.
Published: 01 July 2023
... and cultures that have generated them and the material archives of the climate histories in which they are enmeshed. It draws on insights from the environmental humanities and the critical posthumanities and augments these with other knowledge practices from the biogeochemical sciences. Specifically...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 433–458.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., there is no reason why the concept of assessment cannot be elasticated to include the concerns of interpretive social science and the humanities. Building on the forty-year history and authority of GEAs as a means to bridging the gap between the research world and the wider world, this article identifies...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 57–68.
Published: 01 May 2012
... somehow that we create what we find, which is something the history of science teaches us to forget. 16 And yet it seems more realistic to account for that element within perception that both provokes us to look further and seems to characterise the excessive forms of the things we look at. I look...
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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 (2017) 9 (2): 181–203.
Published: 01 November 2017
... an Endangered Species .” Environmental History 12 ( 2007 ): 497 – 527 . Carey Mark , Jackson M. , Antonello Alessandro , and Rushing Jaclyn . “ Glaciers, Gender, and Science: A Feminist Glaciology Framework for Global Environmental Change Research .” Progress in Human Geography...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 590–602.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Tessa Laird; Andrew Goodman Abstract How and why is pattern undervalued in Western thought? Pattern’s narrative is checkered: historically banned from respectable clothing for its transgressive power; in the sciences relegated to survivalist function; in the arts tamed as decoration. This article...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 119–139.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Alexandra Regan Toland Abstract Drawing on ideas from the history and philosophy of soil science, Fluxus performance, and queer-feminist STS, this article responds to a question posed by environmental researcher Hugo Reinert: “What modes of passionate immersion—or love, or intimacy—could a stone...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 309–330.
Published: 01 July 2024
... between 2008 and 2009, the article argues that the language of home points to the ongoing operations of colonialism in Western conservation. Reading the discourse of homelessness offers a methodology for tracing the histories and manifestations of colonial logics as they circulate in conservation science...
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