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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 51–87.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Colin Fisher Abstract Wilderness parks in the United States are often described as landscapes of leisure for affluent white nature tourists. This article challenges that interpretation by exploring visitation to the Cook County Forest Preserves and the Indiana Dunes State Park, two Chicago-area...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 95–112.
Published: 01 May 2014
... a consumer and leisure experience on a large scale. 7 Particularly faraway and exotic travel destinations can function as a sort of conspicuous consumption as Thorstein Veblen defined it, but also the more everyday chartered flights to mass tourism sites like Gran Canaria matter. 8 As a result...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 173–178.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and Wong, Downstream ; Cohen and Quigley, The Aesthetics of the Undersea ; De Loughrey, Allegories of the Anthropocene and “Towards a Critical Ocean Studies” ; Mentz, Shipwreck Modernity ; and Te Punga Sommerville “Where Oceans Come From.” 13. See also Evers, “Polluted Leisure...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 52–64.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., of suspension. Unlike with the narrative portrayals of climate change in Hollywood or the very real and increasingly disastrous extreme weather events taking place all over the globe, no catastrophe happens in the opera. The characters are all enveloped in their own worlds of leisure, with a constant background...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 57–77.
Published: 01 May 2013
... inspiration into a commodity. As the domestic ideal of the nuclear family came to dominate American conceptions of home life, so too did the practice of leisure reading, offering the rising numbers of the middle class an entryway into cultural sophistication. A hint of the place The Sea Around Us occupied...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 20–39.
Published: 01 May 2018
... institutions and mental freedom past the typically accepted limits of common sense. Said to be the inevitable outcome of centrally planned economies, totalitarianism allows the state planner’s control to seep into all aspects of life: from leisure to family relations to truth itself. “Since under modern...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 117–146.
Published: 01 May 2013
... But in the 65 years since Jefferson had penned his thoughts on the state of Virginia, much had changed, and a competing, aristocratic, largely southern agrarianism theorizing that leisure, the leisure to think and write and cultivate the finer aspects of Western culture, leisure, not labor, ensured democracy...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 641–660.
Published: 01 November 2022
... tuned to overlapping modes of time: slow time of evolutionary change and quick time of capitalist consumption, leisure time of zoogoers and working hours of zookeepers, sacred time of transcendental contact with nature and secular time of mass entertainment, linear time of industrial modernity...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 18–39.
Published: 01 May 2017
... packaging for exporting tea; and Cinchona , the South American tree whose bark contains the antimalarial chemical quinine. These plants were cultivated in vast monocultures while a leisure industry grew up to commodify the mountain landscape that formed their backdrop. In both the leisure and agricultural...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 43–56.
Published: 01 May 2013
... : SAGE , 1999 . Franklin Adrian . “ Neo-Darwinian Leisures, the Body and Nature: Hunting and Angling in Modernity .” Body and Society 7 , no. 4 ( 2001 ): 57 - 76 . Franklin Adrian . Animal Nation: The True Story of Animals and Australia . Sydney : UNSW Press , 2006...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 643–660.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and feasts? We might turn out to enjoy shorter working days, longer and more restful nights. 19 Fossil fuel use has not freed us from toil but has increased the length and tempo of working time. For many, the result has been subjugation and fatigue rather than liberation and leisure. What if, rather than...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 36–57.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... Plath is ambivalent. She is clearly critical of the demanding lifestyle, yet she derives pleasure and satisfaction from it and has a distaste for “amorphic leisure” and the “thin air” back home. “Life was not to be” amorphic. Consider, however, how Plath described the bell jar in her journals...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 118–141.
Published: 01 March 2024
... territory to work in factories essential to the war effort. 35 * * * As Berlin sprawled and with the attention garnered by Fontane’s novel the Lake Stechlin area became more a lakescape of leisure than of labor. 32 In 1929 the Brandenburg Provincial Commission for the Preservation...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 245–254.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of governance are instituted, a spirit of coexistence and tolerance becomes universally normative, poverty is abolished, and education, medical care, and leisure and the arts spread around the globe. All these goals are explicitly articulated and promoted in the Manifesto. Further, the authors' unabashed...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 243–260.
Published: 01 March 2024
... that a leisurely reflection process on the paddling day was more appropriate than regimented feedback. In line with the hopes that the paddling would spark different ways of thinking, we suggested drawing/mapping the next day specifically because it was a creative process, outside of a seminar room, in company...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 129–144.
Published: 01 March 2022
... contamination and myxomatosis frame the characters’ responses to one another and their prey as they formulate ways to organize and control human and nonhuman bodies. Rather than branding hunting as a leisurely occupation with no major repercussions, Saura reveals its biopolitical dimension beyond the human...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 245–263.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., shelves, and databases. This article is about remembering as or with a lake, its complexities, and its unhealed traumas. There is beauty and romance to be retrieved from lakes by those seeking to enjoy them at their leisure, percolating in the depths with expressions of environmental degradation...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 284–302.
Published: 01 July 2022
... as postindustrial—primarily a site of leisure and tourist activities—and the heavy industry has moved out, pollution has not. As I walked along the river I saw coots nesting and living among plastic waste that had become embedded in the planters on the side of the canal. Some recognizable items were visible...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2024
... dates to at least the Mesopotamian Late Ubaid period, circa 3500 BCE, “probably the first moment that man had sufficient wealth and leisure to begin the quest for luxuries.” 23 Our current knowledge of the history of ultramarine dates to the fifth-century murals in Nisa (Turkmenistan) and extends...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 280–301.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Of life’s drear sands, shall sink the memory of to-day. 21 “Seascale Memories” is a compendium of the pleasures that Alain Corbin associates with the invention of the beach as a leisure space in the nineteenth century: the mass ecstasy of sea bathing, the amateur passions for geology and marine...
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