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Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 1. Example of a sticky card covered in dead insects, after deployment and collection from a New York highway roadside in 2021.
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in I Heard the Old Fellas Play: Sustaining the Ecology of Gumleaf Sounds in Koori Community Culture and Beyond
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Published: 01 March 2025
Figure 5. A typical insect-damaged gumleaf. Image by Robin Ryan.
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 826–841.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Columba González-Duarte Abstract This article explores the theme of heroes and villains in relation to the conservation of the North American monarch butterfly. The monarch butterfly is a migratory insect that performs an annual four-thousand-kilometer journey across Canada, the United States...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 211–229.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Figure 1. Example of a sticky card covered in dead insects, after deployment and collection from a New York highway roadside in 2021. ...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 November 2021
... the A. aegypti so that they can be deployed to control their own population—here, mosquito breeding and mating is operationalized as an insecticide. In this case, the insect must be simultaneously a friend and an enemy, cared for and killed, and it must establish encounters and nonencounters. Drawing...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 1–18.
Published: 01 July 2023
... harmful metabolisms of insects and fungi become integral parts of plantation cultivation—though not always successfully. The article widens our understanding of how green production methods are envisioned not as alternatives to but rather as support for industrial cultivation systems. Organic tea...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 23–55.
Published: 01 May 2012
... foam frog was just one tenacious parasite, a noisy agent eating at the table of another, which began to flourish in worlds designed with the well-being of others in mind. Cattails, charismatic birds, and a multitude of insects began interrupting human dreams and schemes. Final solutions to the problem...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 255–279.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... By interspersing a story of humans and machines with insect life, Butler pointed to a broad imaginative web of interspecies and machinic relationships. Contemporary artists Pierre Huyghe, Ann Lislegaard, and Hayden Fowler use video and installation art to explore interspecies relationships in time and space...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 174–179.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., an enduring evolutionary adaptation that has changed little in millions of years. Estrogen and its receptors are ancient, having continued for eons to perform important functions in all vertebrates and even in some insects. 1 The hormone and its receptor fit together like a head into hands, or a hack...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 235–239.
Published: 01 November 2016
... speaks of life. Spending time with enthusiasts, I developed affections for rot. I learned of cycles, of the regenerative power of rot to compost and provision. 2 Our special interest was deadwood insects—busy, vital decomposers that break down fallen trees. The stag beetle was our talisman...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 113–123.
Published: 01 May 2014
... with recent work that has stressed the difficulties of caring for “unloved others,” for dealing with subversive, “lively commodities,” or the monstrous insect, this special section takes up the task of considering how multispecies flourishing works when the creatures are awkward, when togetherness...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 149–170.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., no. 3 (2009): 810-821. 1 United Nations Environmental Protection, “Emerging Issues: Global Honey Bee Colony Disorders and other Threats to Insect Pollinators,” accessed 7 February 2013, http://www.unep.org/dewa/Portals/67/pdf/Global_Cee_Colony_Disorder_and_Threats_insect_pollinators.pdf...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 499–521.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of land, seized through settler-plantation expansion on a commodity frontier built upon dispossession, appropriation, and enslavement. 1 Cotton plantations are nutrient-hungry, deriving profit from the exhaustion of land and soil. They are also vulnerable to disease and predation by insects, ecological...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 203–218.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Figure 5. A typical insect-damaged gumleaf. Image by Robin Ryan. ...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 438–456.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). [email protected] * * * People dream of butterflies, yes. But do butterflies dream? Entomologists still know so little about the sleep of insects, let alone the more tenuous states of consciousness they may drift into. The monarchs wintering...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 370–396.
Published: 01 November 2018
... . A Geology of Media . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2015 . Parikka Jussi . “ Insects and Canaries: Medianatures and the Aesthetics of the Invisible .” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 18 , no. 1 ( 2013 ): 107 – 9 . Parikka Jussi . “ Media Ecologies...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 November 2016
... was the elaboration of sexual selection among the eukaryotic organisms that reproduced sexually. 53 However, the most significant mineralogical consequence of sentience could well have been the coevolution of sentient pollinating insects and flowering plants. The supplanting of conifers by angiosperms a hundred...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 87–108.
Published: 01 March 2023
... environmental changes through episodic delays and encounters. All over the world, thousands of cicadas sing of manifold insect life at frequencies and speeds both within and beyond established thresholds of human sense detection. 24 Most notably, today they sing of perpetually changing forest ecologies...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 554–570.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and the inanimate, the descriptions of sporal contagion render species distinctions so porous that Macandal can “[recover] his corporeal integrity in animal guise.” 49 He transforms into mammals, birds, fish, and insects, using these various forms to watch over the plantation after he has left its bounds. 50...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 57–68.
Published: 01 May 2012
... the trajectory of the project, I was immediately struck by the list of endangered species: “ten plants, four birds, two reptiles, two insects and one mammal.” 9 What I bore witness to in that flash of recognition was my desire to compose a story in which these nineteen as yet to be identified characters lived...
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