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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 57–76.
Published: 01 May 2016
... the visceral vectors, cycles, and assemblages through which people are differentially entangled, disentangled, and reentangled with helminths. It then analyses these entanglements with reference to literature on the science and politics of (auto)immunity. The article places helminth therapy in the vanguard...
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Chemosociality in Multispecies Worlds: Endangered Frogs and Toxic Possibilities in Sydney
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 23–50.
Published: 01 May 2020
... spaces of immunity have emerged where life is protected and threats are negated by poisonous compounds that double as a cure. I would like to thank the Swamp Gems—namely Elizabeth Lara, Cameron Allan McKean, Kuai Shen, and Zoe Combe—for dwelling and thinking with me in the Sydney Olympic Park...
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Metabolic Strata, Corporeal Sediment
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 159–173.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Silica dust intervenes in metabolic processes via the immune system. Macrophages, or white blood cells that typically destroy microorganisms, treat the silica particles as if they were live bacteria, engulfing them with the intention of killing them. But crystalline silica, never having been alive...
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Vector
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 272–274.
Published: 01 May 2021
... suggested that contagion may drive humans to alienate themselves and their fellows. When Self exists at the expense of Other, staying human requires dehumanization. Roberto Esposito speaks on this paradox when describing immunity as foundational to communitas : “a void, a debt, a gift to the other...
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Infection
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 301–305.
Published: 01 May 2014
...: genetic shift and drift. New strains reproduce and multiply unless they meet some limitation, for example if the host should die too quickly and can't transport the virus to a new susceptible. The “molecular narrative,” 7 a singular emphasis on the relationship between viron and host immunity does...
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Practicing for Death in the Anthropocene: Reading Christian Asceticism after the End of the Human
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 105–123.
Published: 01 July 2023
... but the “immunization” of communities against destructive habits. “Humanity,” he concludes, “presses for a macrostructure of global immunization: co-immunism”: “Civilization is one such structure. Its monastic rules must be drawn up now or never; they will encode the forms of anthropotechnics that befit existence...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 233–260.
Published: 01 May 2014
... Lahey's book Immunity to Change 92 and suggests that communities professing an interest in changing thinking or practice in the wider world must first themselves reflect deeply on their own modus operandi. Otherwise, she claims, they can end up looking to others when hoped-for changes fail to occur...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 118–142.
Published: 01 May 2016
... immunity, the contemporary life histories of elephants and knowing what makes an elephant happy are important for efforts to understand and manage the virus. The story of Asian elephants today is not a happy one, however. Asian elephants have become what they are under conditions of human-animal...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 88–112.
Published: 01 May 2020
...: people are encouraged to use antibacterial soap and antibacterial hand sanitizer, even as research emerges on the risks that living an over-sanitized existence can wreak on one’s immune system. 31 The notion of being antibacterial ignores the fact that human bodies are constituted by symbiotic...
View articletitled, Fermenting Feminism as Methodology and Metaphor: Approaching Transnational Feminist Practices through Microbial Transformation
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 807–825.
Published: 01 November 2024
... also facilitating exchange with biomedical doctors, psychologists, Buddhist gurus, and academics. 7 Four major categories of practitioner perspectives on the pandemic could be discerned: (1) prevention, protection, and immunity, (2) mental health, (3) clinical integration, and (4) spectral revenge...
View articletitled, The Resurgence of a Tibetan Medical Hauntology: Diagnosing COVID-19 as the Spectral “Revenge of Nature” during the Anthropause
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A NeoPresocratic Manifesto
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 169–186.
Published: 01 May 2013
... and not immune from influence by social biases, politics, economics, and funding sources. 22 Above all I would insist that claims to objectivity and value-free discourse are a pernicious and dangerous pretense. And finally, I would conclude that—for all these reasons and more—the sciences need to open...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2025
....” 176. Biss, On Immunity , 75 . 177. Hamblin, Clean , 248 . 178. Tsing, Mathews, and Bubant, “Patchy Anthropocene,” S194–95 . References “ Abominations beyond Description .” Berwick Advertiser , February 14 , 1948 . Acland Henry . Health in the Village...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 149–170.
Published: 01 May 2014
...-to-back—thus maximizing the number of frames that can be present in a hive and, thus, honey production. Many natural beekeepers believe these models and intense handling hinders communication, heat-regulating abilities, and the overall capacity of bees to maintain healthy immune systems. Natural...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 418–432.
Published: 01 November 2017
... contributions to the community’s immune system. Everyone washes their own dishes in the dining hall, and everyone participates in camp chores, which, for me, involved beating on a block of accumulated ice with a shovel. While I spent most of my time south in a field camp, I landed near McMurdo and stayed...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 1–18.
Published: 01 July 2023
... this invitation to species that are normally labeled as pests. On plantations, the latter often have particularly drastic effects, because they can move undisturbed through monoculture rows, finding no resistance other than agrochemical pesticides, to which they often gradually grow immune. Tsing calls this feral...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 May 2014
... it is giving of human agency is actually grotesque. An agency that outstrips its capacity to manage itself; wrecks, pillages, loots, and destroys, and has very little idea of what it is doing; and that carries with it, in contradiction of all reason, an expectation of immunity.” 73 Counter-intuitively...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 265–283.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., and [they’re] eating it.” Soil tests later revealed the paddocks were low in copper. Offering goats branches that are high in tannin also helps strengthen immunity and control parasites. Carla and Ann-Marie have learned to draw on the goats’ embodied knowledge of what they need for good health. Giboudeau...
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“The Only Almost Germ-Free Continent Left”: Pandemics and Purity in Cultural Perceptions of Antarctica
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 109–127.
Published: 01 March 2023
... is the contamination of the ice, and particularly of lakes beneath the ice, by equipment, the opposite situation makes a better dramatic scenario for fiction. In L. A. Larkin’s thriller Devour (2016), for example, Antarctica’s presumed immunity to geopolitical machinations—“no tanks, no Taliban, no political coups...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 129–148.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of D. radiodurans and the ecological ethics of the project. In “writing” its own poetic responses to Bök, the bacterium merely inscribes its potential to amass data and immunize future generations from societal collapse and environmental apocalypse. Indeed, The Xenotext is touted as “the world’s...
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Toxic Erotics and Bad Ecosex at Windermere Basin
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 699–717.
Published: 01 November 2022
... a universal We” can be embodied, and felt deeply—even, or especially, when the sex is bad. In suggesting this term, I also want to disturb some of the ease that ecosexuality promises. Bad ecosex reminds us that the erotic itself is not immune from the relations we are trying to shift. “Bad ecosex...
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