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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 108–136.
Published: 01 May 2019
... proposal to complement the Anthropocene concept with the figuration of Chthulucene, calling for a shift of ethical stance and position of enunciation from the sovereign (white, Western) “I,” waging “war” on cancer to a “we,” based on a planetwide kinship of vulnerable bodies. Underlining that this shift...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 385–400.
Published: 01 July 2022
... Fort McKay First Nation and Bigstone Cree Nation describe how sakâwiyiniwak ecological care is rooted in kinship. Moments of enchantment, or intense moments of noticing and “plant-thinking,” inspire new appreciation of the boreal forest and the many familiar plants that grow within it, illuminating...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 119–139.
Published: 01 November 2023
... on earth, leading to kinship with geogenic entities; (2) soil formation (pedogenesis) could be interpreted as a performative process of learning and becoming, rather than simply weathering and aging, with appreciable ontological implications; and (3) soil kinship is situated within a dynamic interplay...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 475–491.
Published: 01 November 2020
... when the urgency of climate change seems to elevate the appeal to/of numbers? What role has and should kinship play in understanding “population”? Through a discussion of three recent books—Adele Clarke and Donna Haraway’s edited collection Making Kin Not Population , Michelle Murphy’s...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 150–170.
Published: 01 May 2018
... and future environmental opportunity. Contiguity is achieved, on one hand, through performances of bodily kinship between human practitioners and dead or extinct animals and, on the other, through plays on resonance with specific organic materials, including garefowl remnants in Victorian taxidermied auks...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 438–456.
Published: 01 July 2022
... the necessity of these crossings, the kinship and well-being that movement sustains? The essay explores these questions through a series of meditations on the monarch butterfly, a creature that has become in recent years the symbol of a more expansive vision of North American belonging. Anand Pandian describes...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 66–92.
Published: 01 May 2021
... narratives—of ruination and new flourishing, diversity and local becomings, multispecies kinship and love—into Kirstenbosch. In doing so, the emergent ecologies introduce possibilities for reimagining the botanical garden as an institution of environmental governance from within its confines and its...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 403–421.
Published: 01 July 2024
... into account the temporalities of inequality, political organization, ethical responsibilities and much else. The article engages with approaches to time that foreground the work needed to create time and move ethically within it, including Charles W. Mills’s white time and Kyle Powys Whyte’s kinship time...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 272–274.
Published: 01 May 2021
... chthulu references a mode of being that contends with relationality as its premise. To “stay with the trouble” means to acknowledge the odd kinships between humans and nonhumans. The horrors this proposition turns our attention to are not those of a monster rising from the depths of the earth but those...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 422–425.
Published: 01 July 2024
... and livelihoods. Dust, as Liane Pearce put it in her story of the broken ecology of Australia’s outback mining town Broken Hill, is “the land’s way of speaking back.” 12 And still, people cannot but go on living with the dust of their home ecologies—in “contaminated kinship.” Existential boundaries are being...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 37–56.
Published: 01 May 2016
... and kinship. 12 But these same liberatory reproductive technologies generated new eugenic trends in humans and produced new forms of suffering in animals. These technologies also generated mass death in ecological assemblages. Working from a position of noninnocence and complicity—inheriting histories...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 101–107.
Published: 01 May 2019
... with extreme levels of PCB (polychlorinated biphenyl) in their system bring to the environmental social imaginary the toxic kinship of predators and other species, including humans, threatened by extinction. The cumulative exposure to endocrine disruptors, neurotoxins, asthmagens, carcinogens, and mutagens...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 142–161.
Published: 01 March 2024
... the linear arrow of time much longer—and even less stable—but is nonetheless still rooted in Western temporalities. Kyle Powys Whyte, a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, describes “kinship time” as a temporality that contraindicates linear time and centers “an ethic of shared responsibility” when...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 590–601.
Published: 01 November 2022
... chauvinistic and reprocentric, fantasy. Added to this fantasy are the racial politics implied due to the place that the Neanderthal occupies within Western imaginaries. In Superior: The Return of Race Science , science journalist Angela Saini writes that “kinship has been established between Europeans...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 291–308.
Published: 01 July 2024
... resolutely secular biopolitical concerns, even when these are legitimized by appeal to theology. 11 The affairs of the state are generally seen as definitionally separate from the continued agency of the dead that would otherwise entangle the political with questions of either kinship, history...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 186–189.
Published: 01 May 2020
... the careful monitoring of morphic transactions makes perceptible, in this metamorphic zone—and what this proposition requires us to be attentive to—is the surprising kinship of ways of affecting, of influencing, of coming to bear on the behaviour of others: stars, rocks, bacteria, humans, animals use...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 460–463.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., animal, vegetal, fungal, and microbial matter, celebrating the complexity of kinships that compose the present and evoke the past, which, as the example of the gingko shows, is full of histories both tragic and harmonious. As Dillard demonstrates, fecundity asks that we accept “nature” as neither...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 584–589.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., the articulate, physical embodiment of a resurgent Aboriginal land relationship. They are ancient beings whose reemergence as the land and for the restoration of millennia-old, place-based human kinships challenges and disrupts an ongoing coloniality that conveniently and instrumentally pretends...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 162–181.
Published: 01 March 2022
... In contrast, Gubar advocates a “kinship” model of childhood agency, in which children, like adults, are both “scripted and scripting.” A “kinship model” acknowledges that “children, like adults, have agency, even if aspects of the aging process are likely to limit the form or degree of agency that they have...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 361–366.
Published: 01 July 2022
... and resurgence. On Caribbean and American southern plantations, food plots cultivated by the enslaved became unexpected biocultural refugia nurturing oppositional modes of Black life grounded in more-than-human meshworks of kinship and care. 9 Fugitive seeds and bodies became literally and figuratively...
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