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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 746–765.
Published: 01 November 2024
... the fires’ pyrogenic agencies and temporal and scalar complexities stymie knowing, but knowing involves risks. This puts ignorance at the heart of this Anthropocenic blight, with diverse actors engaging in willful blindness to attribute blame and avoid responsibility in order to live with the fires...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 301–322.
Published: 01 November 2021
... status, the Schieffelin story is considered a cautionary tale about the dangers of ecological ignorance. Diving into the history of the Schieffelin story reveals, however, that it is almost entirely fictional. Tracing how its elements emerged and changed over a century of retelling clarifies how...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 182–201.
Published: 01 March 2022
... by Andreas Malm in a 2018 paper titled “In Wildness Lies the Liberation of the World: On Maroon Ecology and Partisan Nature.” Paradoxically, in suggesting that fugitive slaves’ experiences of “wild” spaces can point to a Marxist theory of wilderness, Malm ignores the concerns of Maroons and Indigenous...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 44–63.
Published: 01 March 2023
... with that which is often unseen, unheard, or ignored. References Alaimo Stacy . Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2016 . Bateson Gregory . Steps to an Ecology of Mind . Chicago : University of Chicago Press...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 351–370.
Published: 01 July 2024
... knowledge, calling up norms and hierarchies regarding water but also creating openings toward waters that cannot be given meaning. Lawson’s writings about ephemeral rivers and lakes stress their divergence from metropolitan ideas of water’s continuity, presence, and visibility. Largely ignoring Indigenous...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 141–154.
Published: 01 May 2012
... disturbance history with feminist multispecies company. Cereals domesticate humans. Plantations give us the subspecies we call race. The home cordons off inter- and intra-species love. But mushroom collecting brings us somewhere else—to the unruly edges and seams of imperial space, where we cannot ignore...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 447–472.
Published: 01 November 2018
... or mind doubtlessly endure. But in this article we consider the—largely ignored, yet now arguably more prevalent—idea that humans are exceptional because of their physicality. Here, then, we outline the emergence of the scientific claim that a uniquely human condition of nature transcendence is owed...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 349–369.
Published: 01 November 2018
.... It then reflects on the significance of translation and mistranslation for this encounter, noting that important environmentally relevant Sámi words translate poorly into Norwegian or English, and that the practices that these index are ignored or misunderstood in those translations. In particular, it focuses...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 101–116.
Published: 01 May 2013
... uncertainty shapes scientific ethos: uncertainty as a probability (ethos of expertise), as a moral certainty (ethos of civic participant), and as an unknown or unconcern (ethos of ignorance). Finally, the author suggests that the circulation of these uncertainty frameworks of scientific ethos helped drive...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 113–131.
Published: 01 May 2020
... the development of polities and associated crosswater networks. Postglacial sea level rise affected coastal living in ways about which we remain largely ignorant. Yet, millennia-old stories from Australia and northwest Europe show how people responded, from which we can plausibly infer their motivations. Stories...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 493–497.
Published: 01 November 2019
... studies published in the annals of social science have demonstrated that “development” à la World Bank has been catastrophic. How can so many climate scientists planning mitigation and adaptation be ignorant of those critiques? Working with the failure of modernist versions of nature as they have...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 492–495.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of interest in the environmental humanities. Following in Quammen’s footsteps, 14 these researchers examine the moral status of creatures their cultures tell them to fear or loathe or simply ignore—the invasive species, the nuisance wildlife, the vermin and the pests, along with all those unfortunate...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 142–161.
Published: 01 July 2023
... “arboreality’s own elusive communicative system.” 90 Such disclosure and attunement crucially rely on the reader’s ignorance: as Stewart writes, after pointing out a striking number of resonant textual details, “If it all seems too much to hold in mind at once, it is.” 91 Paul K. Saint-Amour, in his...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 397–420.
Published: 01 November 2018
... Science and Policy 30 ( 2013 ): 60 – 71 . Rayner Steve . “ Uncomfortable Knowledge: The Social Construction of Ignorance in Science and Environmental Policy Discourses .” Economy and Society 41 , no. 1 ( 2012 ): 107 – 25 . Sandilands Catriona . The Good-Natured Feminist...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 108–136.
Published: 01 May 2019
... for a long time, and Anthropos/Humanitas knows full well how to shroud himself in epistemologies of ignorance. “I brought a caged canary with me to the mine, to make sure that I can always escape in time! So perhaps the canary, will get cancer. But not me. Not me! Not me! Not me!” he shouts...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 270–276.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., and in many other ways which we overlook or simply ignore. Once they become conscious of this, many people realize that we live and act on the basis of a reality which has previously been given to us, which precedes our existence and our abilities . (§140; emphasis added) Human beings are not masters...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 219–225.
Published: 01 May 2016
... as if it made no difference to be with or without the beast is not only ignorance or stupidity, it is really criminal, because if there is a political task, it is to invent how we are going to share the stage with entities that react, that overreact so quickly. An Ecomodernist Manifesto is written...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 330–337.
Published: 01 May 2018
... a third in the form of the social sciences, a grouping of disciplines that Snow ignored completely but that Harvard psychologist Jerome Kagan helpfully juxtaposes with the sciences and humanities in his 2009 book The Three Cultures . 9 One of the motivations for Kagan’s book was his recognition...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 259–263.
Published: 01 May 2016
... populations of each species survived in the wild). What this revealed was the level of ignorance of crocodile distribution, abundance and behaviour, and how hard it was to count crocodiles accurately. The Crocodile Specialist Group reluctantly concluded that in order to convince people to tolerate large...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 195–205.
Published: 01 May 2014
... subsumed under the label death. Nonetheless, this is not an excuse to ignore a sense of awkwardness, a sense dulled perhaps by the physical and experiential distance between food and consumer common to contemporary food systems. Instead, as I will explore below, attending to (and even amplifying...
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