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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 58–78.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Tim Watson Abstract This essay analyzes Miami as a place where plants are a major component of urban infrastructure. The centrality of tropical plants to the growth of Miami connects that city to the history of empire, where control of plant matter was the violent model for the standardization...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 136–158.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Kate Lewis Hood Abstract This article offers an account of “toxic infrastructures” as mutually material and discursive arrangements operating in the postwar, postcrash, and settler colonial landscapes of the United States. It specifically responds to Jennifer Scappettone’s multimodal poetic work...
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in On Displacement: Revealing Hidden Ways of Being through Site-Specific Art
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 7. Swale’ s infrastructure is composed of simple materials typical of a community garden. Courtesy of Mary Mattingly.
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 86–106.
Published: 01 May 2018
... causally separate and restricts what gets counted as a casualty of war. Based on a year of ethnographic fieldwork, this article approaches the confirmed and suspected toxic remnants of war as toxic infrastructures that sediment and distribute war’s lethal potential, years after the last bomb was dropped...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 103–130.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Etienne Benson Abstract The fact that industrial infrastructures are embedded in complex environments animated by unexpected agencies is often invisible to their users—at least those who live in rich, industrialized societies with reliable systems for distributing water, power, and other goods...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 407–430.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Aimi Hamraie Abstract This article responds to two diverging notions of “livability”: the normative New Urbanist imaginary of livable cities, where the urban good life manifests in neoliberal consumer cultures, green gentrification, and inaccessible infrastructures, and the feminist and disability...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 71–88.
Published: 01 March 2022
... animal bio-industrialization into sets of practices that accelerate productivity, standardize animal life and infrastructures, and reduce risk to maximize efficiency. It shows these practices at work through recent ethnographic accounts of salmon aquaculture and pork production to illustrate how efforts...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 87–108.
Published: 01 March 2023
... to the formation and operation of digital sensing technologies. Second, speculative blockchain infrastructures and decision-making algorithms raise questions about whether and how forests can own themselves. Third, Amerindian cosmologies redistribute subjectivities to change how digital technologies identify...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 March 2024
... in Assam in British India, where Jri Bamon was molded as a rubber crop in the plantation regimes. Second, it studies the present-day Indigenous ecologies of the Khasi Hills in Meghalaya, near India’s international border with Bangladesh, where this tree is historically grown as an infrastructure...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 118–141.
Published: 01 March 2024
...’ definition of the environment. The author argues that contemporary ecological light-pollution research in greater Berlin can take place because of the site’s longer naturalcultural history, which includes the Nazi regime’s role in creating the nature reserve where Lake Stechlin and scientific infrastructure...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 190–204.
Published: 01 May 2020
... in much of public and intellectual life speaks not only to the literal invisibility of their subterranean elements but also to their taken-for-granted effectiveness as the material infrastructure of societies. Today’s crisis of soil ecosystems calls for an urgent examination and improvement of human-soil...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 247–279.
Published: 01 November 2019
... legacies do airports struggle with and how do they cope with the underlying tensions of partially connected sites, sectors, and spaces? Throughout the essay, we historicize three encounters of the aviation infrastructure and its living environments and their affective economies: borderlining the airfield...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 18–39.
Published: 01 May 2017
... that belonging can be “singularized” to a particular location or landscape. Building on this idea, I examine the encounters of Gorkha tea plantation workers, students, and city dwellers with landslides, a crumbling colonial infrastructure, and urban wildlife. While many analyses of subnational movements in India...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 187–212.
Published: 01 May 2018
... their integrity in the face of unpredictable ground movements. The subterranean, far from being a space of protection (as is often the case for other buried infrastructures), is here a site of vulnerability that threatens to tear steel apart. Pipes are not buried; they are suspended in cradles, and this entire...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 194–215.
Published: 01 May 2019
... a complex of elements, it appears that the action was undertaken as a manifestation of a general intolerance to discipline.” 61 The young woman turned improper bodily exposure into a means of insubordination. She enacted bodily resistance against the disciplinary regime of the chemical infrastructure...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 250–266.
Published: 01 May 2020
... not as something that lies out there in the landscape but as a living process of becoming, making, or poiesis . The work of these scientists participated in revealing that urban soils, like other soil types, were part of what Maria Puig de la Bellacasa 15 calls “the dismissed infrastructure of bios”—the web...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 21–44.
Published: 01 May 2021
... or contribute to oil’s invisibility ?” 7 Drawing the line on oil, from deep underground to far offshore, the atlas directs a key tool of visualization toward rendering oil infrastructure and its ecological damages and threats to Black neighborhoods in particular. In reading for oil, I contend, we also read...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 23–50.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and study that simultaneously aimed at world-building and dismantlement.” 43 Sydney’s Olympic Games opened up hopes in blasted landscapes, new potentials for future life, as toxic waste dumps of the recent past were dismantled and replaced with new infrastructures and architectures of care. 44...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 475–491.
Published: 01 November 2020
... kinmaking. But in these thought projects let’s dream up institutions, infrastructures and ecologies that do not place the onus on individuals. Let’s think of parental arrangements, co-living spaces, and institutional and educational resources that distribute the pleasures and responsibilities of raising...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 603–623.
Published: 01 November 2024
... an important feature of prospecting: that it is rarely the preserve of individuals working alone. As surveys like Clarence King’s demonstrate, prospecting more often involves large, coordinated efforts in the search for resources, which are themselves bound up in wider infrastructures of knowledge production...
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