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Published: 01 May 2015
Figure 3. A Japanese shore crab removed from the dock. Photo: Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University.
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 39–61.
Published: 01 July 2023
... from topsoil, growing rice, and other improvisations for relating to soils that cascade to regenerate a livable world. This article discusses how the Japanese state utilizes temporal scales that orient its citizenry to a future associated with accelerated and intensified productivity as a sign...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 131–157.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Jennifer K. Ladino Abstract This essay investigates the natural landscapes and built structures at the Manzanar National Historic Site, the first of ten incarceration camps to open in 1941 and a temporary home for over 11,000 Japanese Americans. Using former incarceree Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 29–52.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Figure 3. A Japanese shore crab removed from the dock. Photo: Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University. ...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 692–696.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., hacking cough. These are the symptoms of Hanahaki disease, a fan fiction trope in which characters cough up flowers that have taken root in their body due to unrequited love. 1 Originating in manga, the trope’s name is a portmanteau of the Japanese words 花 hana (flower) and 吐きます hakimasu (to throw...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 171–174.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Harriet Ritvo Copyright © 2017 Harriet Ritvo 2017 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). My garden is being invaded by Japanese knotweed, as are those of my neighbors and those of many people who live in other places...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 203–217.
Published: 01 May 2016
... reimaginings of this storied Japanese image often remark upon the dangerous, damaged state of the contemporary ocean. Such commentaries sometimes refer directly to the 2011 tsunami and to its associated Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster. But adaptations of Hokusai's Wave these days also increasingly point...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 175–178.
Published: 01 May 2015
... conditions in which sentient creatures live and sense. Weather can be seen, heard and felt, as expressed in this passage from the Japanese philosopher Watsuri Tetsuro: A cold wind may be experienced as a mountain blast or the cold dry wind that sweeps through Tokyo at the end of winter. The spring breeze...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 109–127.
Published: 01 March 2023
... is Fukkatsu no hi ( Day of Resurrection ) by Sankyo Komatsu, a prominent Japanese science fiction writer. 29 Published in 1964, the novel is set at a Japanese Antarctic station in the immediate future (1973). The narrative centers on the accidental release of an anthropogenic virus produced as a Cold War...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 283–286.
Published: 01 May 2014
... been bound up with assumptions about biocultural belonging. Does a relatively high water-use crop like rice belong in Australia at all? Do ducks belong in rice paddies, where many farmers believe they destroy crops? In the early twentieth century, a Japanese migrant by the name of Isaburo Takasuka...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 179–185.
Published: 01 May 2020
.... Figure 1. Spare parts in a roadside stall, Surabaya, Indonesia, 2017. Repair is evidently everywhere in the history of design, from premodern practices to industrial craft, from the Japanese kintsugi tradition of gold ceramics repair to the Roman architectural tradition of spoila involving...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 141–154.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., the global mushroom market has distributed collecting around the world. The Japanese delicacy matsutake takes collectors not only to traditional Asian margins but also to mountain margins across the Pacific: British Columbia; the U.S. Northwest; the mountains of Oaxaca. 38 Commercial mushroom...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 145–161.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., of course. 6 This article explores three contemporary works that are particularly successful in uncoupling children from parental care, foregrounding their agency—their capacity to reshape the world in opposition to the conventional dichotomies of Western thinking: The Emissary (2014), by Japanese...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 371–384.
Published: 01 July 2024
..., the Hashimotos, developed an instrument capable of rendering a cactus’s emotional responses as synthesized noises, and they endeavor to teach it the Japanese alphabet (a project that became the basis for a 2017 documentary, Conversation with a Cactus ). 2 To this day, Backster’s ideas continue...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 309–324.
Published: 01 November 2017
... space conditions. As a result of such findings the so-called panspermia hypothesis, according to which interplanetary space is pervaded by organic seeds, has gained a new respectability in scientific circles. For example, the Tanpopo , or “dandelion,” mission, conducted by a group of Japanese space...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 571–589.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., a Japanese genius who is shot before making it into the ship, and whose most valuable contribution to posthumanity is fathering Akiko. Mandarax is a translation device that regularly brings up quotes from poetry and literature to fit the occasion. At the end, Captain von Kleist casts Mandarax into the water...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 37–56.
Published: 01 May 2016
... about an outbreak from the “diseased continent” facilitated by a pregnancy test gone awry. 38 Biological scientists have since argued against Weldon’s hypothesis with their own evidence. For example, one team found the deadly chytrids on the skin of a Japanese giant salamander collected as a museum...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 284–302.
Published: 01 July 2022
... network between natural and cultural entities by following three scientists as they attempted to form relationships with fishermen and scallops in Brittany, France. The scientists were attempting to import to France a Japanese technique for scallop fishing in which scallop larvae were cultivated in closed...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 766–783.
Published: 01 November 2024
... to hide, referring back to the Japanese war, the Emergency, or even just times they encountered “bad gɔp .” Autonomy is a political strategy as well as a value. Batek in Pahang have long been boundary dwellers, making the most of beneficial scenarios from outside the forest such as trade, while...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 51–87.
Published: 01 May 2020
.... , and Bennett Edward H. Plan of Chicago . Chicago : Commercial Club , 1909 . Chiang Connie Y. “ Imprisoned Nature: Toward an Environmental History of the World War II Japanese American Incarceration .” Environmental History 15 , no. 2 ( 2010 ): 236 – 67 . Chiang Connie Y...
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