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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 219–234.
Published: 01 November 2023
... to the nascent field of paleoenvironmental humanities, this article’s approach to questions of care and responsibility turns from future horizon-scanning to the realm of human origins. It focuses on two broad sets of paleo stories that share a concern with rifts or stress points that complicate originary events...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2022
... traditions, flourished in the historical context of intensely optimistic post–World War II hopes for human exploitation of the ocean, especially its depths. In the face of environmental change and awareness, subsequent versions reflect yearnings merely for survival of the human species. The origin, shape...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 501–527.
Published: 01 November 2018
... not that there should be one “correct” origin story behind which we all must fall in line. Rather, this provocation seeks to story the field through a specific tracing of its connection to feminism. In researching some of the ways in which contemporary environmental humanities narrates its emergence, a clear sense...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 85–102.
Published: 01 May 2012
... poems create a confusion of subject/object and foreground/background relations in which the origins of affects are impossible to determine and harms circulate. Affect is vital in understanding human motivations in relation to climate change, and Hillman's ecopoetic practice is an example of how we can...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 195–214.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Hannah Fair; Matthew McMullen Abstract This provocation asks what it could mean to recuperate the concept of species-being from its anthropocentric origins and expand it beyond the human by placing an emergent nonhuman labor literature in dialogue with recent rearticulations of Marx’s work...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 280–299.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... The rhetorical figure is characteristic of the environmental humanities, for it invokes the value of cultural and literary treasures to reinforce the importance of biological diversity. This article traces the origins of the metaphor to related figures of The Book of Life and to the figure of genetic information...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 224–244.
Published: 01 May 2021
... a collective agency moving toward collective death with stratified relations to culpability and vulnerability. This uneven reflexivity moves away from a dramatic story of total human extinction, which Rebekah Sheldon has called “a fantasy of cleanliness formally symmetrical with the quest for origins.” 35...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 284–291.
Published: 01 November 2023
... reproductive responsibility births a reproductive futurism, in which the bonds of care are imagined through a genealogical lens (with all its colonial contradictions) that precludes both the orphan and the orphan qualities of genetic inheritances in human origins theory. 8 The “cooperative breeding...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 273–294.
Published: 01 May 2018
... sites of Homo . King and Bailey propose that major pathways of human migration across and out of Africa follow tectonically active zones—which, like the “original” rift valley, provided sheltering rock formations, pockets of fertility, and buffering from climate change. Some of the earliest sites...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 385–400.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., it kills the human, the aspen really is the “boss” tree. Now when I see the powdery white bark of the aspen, I see origins. Imagine witnessing the large-scale logging of the most sacred tree that gave humans their bones. Helen had told me that the tree that the moose scraped off the bark from, the one...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 272–274.
Published: 01 May 2021
...., Pathological Lives . References Esposito Roberto . Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2009 . Grauerholz Liz . “ Cute Enough to Eat: The Transformation of Animals into Meat for Human Consumption in Commercialized Images...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 275–280.
Published: 01 May 2021
....” 5. Fisher, Weird and the Eerie , 10 (emphasis in the original). 6. The disaster occurred on April 26, 1986, at 1:23 a.m. Chernobyl is transliterated from the Russian, Чернобыль. In Ukraine, Chornobyl is used, transliterated from the Ukrainian Чорнобиль. 7. Morton, Dark Ecology...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 237–239.
Published: 01 March 2022
... the internal labyrinth, as an original form, but also as a copied form at the park and also as a structure that stretches beyond the plant or the park and forms part of the entire globe, on which humans perch. So, the ant plant labyrinth becomes a lesson in distributed activity. I can live alongside my...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 433–453.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of humanity’s being and its civilization, humans have asked themselves some of the great existential questions: Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we heading? Searching for extraterrestrial life and intelligence, and the origin of life within the astrobiological endeavor, is a modern expression...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 119–139.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., and others in Grusin, Anthropocene Feminism . 50. Although Jenny originally included humans in his CLORPT model, Rudi Dudal, among other prominent soil scientists, include humans as a sixth soil-forming factor, reasoning that humans cause so much change that they are distinct from other organisms...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 590–601.
Published: 01 November 2022
... Church’s fantasy of reanimated Neanderthals puttering around in outer space invites us to consider the ways in which sex and nature remain contested terms. While plotting out the discrete origin point and future trajectory of the human is a spurious endeavor at best, we have much to learn from retracing...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of their origin and make some probable predictions about their sequencing . In the following notes I open four lines of thought suggested by ME that are relevant to the environmental humanities and ecological thought generally. First, I contrast ME with Darwinian evolution and discuss its framing within...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 May 2012
...). This license permits use and distribution of the article for non-commercial purposes, provided the original work is cited and is not altered or transformed. Welcome to the first volume of this new, international, open-access journal. Environmental Humanities aims to support and further a wide range...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 251–265.
Published: 01 November 2023
... displacements of the human, and the origin story of secular modernity begins with the displacement of the earth. It is no wonder that metaphysical and empirical knowledge of the planet inevitably bears on the status of the human, and that the earth itself has an empirical-transcendental status similar to how...
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Published: 01 May 2018
Figure 4. Former site of the Chesapeake Bay Model. An original water meter is in the foreground, and the original water tower can be seen in the distance. Photograph by the author More