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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 162–182.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and sheer topography as part of imperialism’s moral project. It analyzes texts that recount events in and around India and parts of Africa, published between the 1890s and 1940s. The article’s author discusses a range of authors from obscure settlers and army officers to well-known proponents...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 63–85.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., as what Alfred Crosby so famously called “ecological imperialism.” Yet, as I explore in this essay, ecological imperialism is not just the remaking of landscapes to look like Europe but also a process of remaking nonhuman life through the constitution of new multispecies assemblages. Finally...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 266–283.
Published: 01 November 2023
... analytic reprieve. They name that which is difficult to objectify: the geographic and historical vastness of geological presence. But those concepts grow from knowledge habits inherited from imperial and Cold War logics and can presume the existence of an all-encompassing observer who can grasp the unity...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2024
... accounts for the fact that the color blue has built empires, taken lives, and altered environments. Marsh’s poetry and presence in the heart of the British Empire visualizes blue resistance against imperial power and the persistent defiance of colonization in the Pacific region. The article argues...
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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 (2013) 2 (1): 57–77.
Published: 01 May 2013
... and expressed the “sense of wonder” that was critical to Carson's ecological aesthetic, I argue, they also subsumed the new “frontier” of the world's oceans into the technological imperialism of the post-World War II United States. As new technologies allowed military and scientific researchers to see deeper...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 58–78.
Published: 01 March 2024
... BY-NC-ND 4.0). Miami plants infrastructure race imperialism In the small library of the Miami branch of the Hawaii-based National Tropical Botanical Garden, dozens of typed index cards fill a metal file drawer labeled “Catalog: Plants on the Kampong.” Arranged alphabetically according...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 19–35.
Published: 01 March 2024
... at the sea floor. Like the Billabong bikini, a trace of transpacific colonial violence hiding in plain sight, these remainders are abject, “imperial ghost[s],” “administered forgettings and guarded secrets [that] leave a kind of counter-evidence: material and spectral traces, shadowy aftereffects...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 554–570.
Published: 01 November 2024
... for particular forms of plant life during the colonial period, their identities so closely associated with (mostly imported) cash crops that entire landmasses became known simply as the Sugar Islands. Through this transformation, the islands’ capacity for vegetal production was co-opted by European imperial...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 73–102.
Published: 01 May 2015
... considers the elements shaping what can or cannot be known through the digitisation and the database, beginning with the writing of the letters to RBG, Kew as part of an extensive imperial botanical network, and an account of the organisation of the letters upon arrival at RBG, Kew. The other factor shaping...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 18–39.
Published: 01 May 2017
... to the south. Until 1911, when the British moved imperial government operations from Calcutta to Delhi, Darjeeling served as the summer capital of British India. When they annexed the land that is now Darjeeling from the Kingdom of Sikkim, the British deemed the Lepcha people, who had been living...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 842–849.
Published: 01 November 2024
... examination of imperialism and environmental catastrophe in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, is always paired with wonder in the Anthropocene. 27 And, we may add, what makes more-than-human heroes and villains especially fecund, in this dialectic of loss and wonder and in this “experience of brokenness...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 159–173.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of metabolism to Deleuzian notions of stratification in order to explore how the production of tin cans and the bodily ingestion of tinned food supported nineteenth-century projects of militarism, imperialism, and Victorian-era nationalism. I then turn from tin cans to tin mining, specifically considering how...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 25–43.
Published: 01 March 2023
... on environmental imperialism and on the coloniality of space exploration, recently analyzed by Natalie Treviño, the relation between colonial space imaginaries and environmentalism beyond our planet remains under-studied. 14 Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s pathbreaking Decolonising Methodologies outlined how...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 164–167.
Published: 01 March 2023
...” ; Pratt, Imperial Eyes . 6. Allatson, Key Terms , 273–74 . 7. Anzaldúa, Gloria Anzaldúa Reader , 181 . 8. Andrew, “Introduction to NIRIN.” 9. Vanni and Crosby, “Recombinant Ecologies in the City.” 10. Stoetzer, “Ruderal Ecologies.” 11. Shan and Pierre...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 528–531.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and Tappe Oliver , 1 – 18 . Singapore : National University of Singapore Press , 2013 . Stoler Ann Laura . Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2016 . Stoler Ann Laura . Introduction to “ ‘The Rot Remains’: From Ruins to Ruination...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 52–71.
Published: 01 May 2019
.... They are now coming to those most remote places—the Ramu Nickel Mine, the Tar Sands of Alberta . . . —Winona LaDuke 1 In her influential study of imperial travel narratives, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (1992), Mary Louise Pratt proposes the notion of the “travelee” to evoke...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 372–390.
Published: 01 November 2021
... temples for the divine when the divine is already present in the world. Her work demonstrates how Native writers used the tropes of the period to emphasize natural cycles of growth and decay and write back against a growing imperial extraction regime. Regardless of this ebb, Jemison still found her...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 351–370.
Published: 01 July 2024
... between water infrastructure and political power in arid regions, marks a growing point of condensation between the environmental humanities, postcolonialism, and literary ecocriticism. There is a broad applicability to a range of imperial contexts of Alan Mikhail’s observation that “understanding water...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 128–140.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., for example, Crosby, Ecological Imperialism ; Chailou, Roblin, and Ferdinand, “Why We Need a Decolonial Ecology” ; R. Grove, Green Imperialism . 6. Rademacher and Sivaramakrishnan, Ecologies of Urbanism in India , 11 . 7. Rademacher and Sivaramakrishnan, Places of Nature in Ecologies...
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