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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 (2019) 11 (1): 180–193.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., a massive and still growing hodgepodge of industrial and consumer by-products and emissions; shards of metaphysical ideas and theological dreams; radioactive materials; light, sound, and other modes of sensory pollution; pesticides and herbicides; and so forth. Toxicity targets our bodily tissues, senses...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 124–141.
Published: 01 July 2023
... Alexis , Lapostolle Dany , Franchomme Magalie , Sirami Clélia , Viol Isabelle Le , Milian Johan , and Kerbiriou Christian . “ Grasping Darkness: The Dark Ecological Network as a Social-Ecological Framework to Limit the Impacts of Light Pollution on Biodiversity...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 478–494.
Published: 01 July 2024
... reflection by Warren Cariou on his practice and how he theorizes hope in the context of pollution. [email protected] [email protected] © 2024 Siobhan Angus and Warren Cariou 2024 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 60–83.
Published: 01 May 2017
... and contain the atmosphere, as Eliasson does—has a particular recent history of its own that yokes such acts of geoengineering to pollution, warfare, and the politics of climate. 43 So complete was Eliasson’s mediation or control of light and air in the exhibition that one of the gallery attendants...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 103–130.
Published: 01 May 2015
...): 1215-1229, 1225. 45 Ecologists often interpret such infrastructural appropriations and their aftereffects as signs of ecological damage; see, e.g., in the case of artificial light, Travis Longcore and Catherine Rich, “Ecological Light Pollution,” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 402–426.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and problematize extraction as a cultural practice. The essay first theorizes extraction and examines cultural representations of coal and gas fields in northern Appalachia, including Ann Pancake’s novel Strange as This Weather Has Been (2007) and Jennifer Haigh’s novel Heat and Light (2015). Each, by rendering...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 May 2021
... is not pollution but the stuff of life itself and thus possesses ethical and ecological standing. This philosophy contains a poetics of denial that is too often overlooked by studies of climate skepticism focusing narrowly on industry funding. Accordingly, this article develops a reparative theory of climate...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 May 2020
... earth mining, the slow violence of black lung disease, the factory work, the digital consumption practices—that have propelled and intensified the country’s stupendous development as well as its ecological challenges. We find new work on eco-media and media materialism most productive, as it sheds light...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 108–136.
Published: 01 May 2019
... pollution, had one of the highest breast cancer incidents in the world? Noone knows. Mainstream of cancer research is meticulously investigating the connection between cancer, genetics and lifestyles, while pesticides with endocrine disrupting carcinogens such as glyphosate, still have not been...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 27–51.
Published: 01 May 2019
.... There are some, but not many, photos of polluted landscapes and, as already mentioned, there are only a few fence-line photos. Rather than carefully crafted professional photographs, the snapshot reigns. Many of the photos feature young people. In keeping with the sheer number, variety, and energy...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 699–717.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Astrida Neimanis Abstract How do settler colonialism, control of women’s and differently gendered bodies, sex, industry, pollution—but also pleasure, love, care, desire, bodily autonomy, and survival—cleave together and apart in the inland wetland of Windermere Basin park? Starting...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 661–679.
Published: 01 November 2022
... Hannah Boast 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). far-right politics hormones humor memes pollution queer ecology popular culture In October 2015 US shock jock and self-declared “most paranoid man in America...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 May 2013
... pork feeds the world. To my mind, this marketeerism and boosterism serve as well to drum up an audience for a novel like A Thousand Acres. Not only does Made-in-the-U.S.A. pork sell; so too do the cultural narratives that envelop it—even cultural narratives that might shine a negative light...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 85–102.
Published: 01 May 2012
... at healing or wholeness that remain unsuccessful in light of the equally damaged environment in which healing might take place. As such, her work is concerned as much with what Heather Houser calls “eco-sickness” as with our place in the Anthropocene. But what is the role of poetry in this era? Poetry might...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 107–128.
Published: 01 May 2018
... by environmental management and policy makers as a reminder that our actions have far-reaching consequences. The flush of a toilet in Maryland, the erosion of a stream bank in West Virginia, the dumping of pollutants in New York, the application of fertilizer in Pennsylvania—all of these actions flow downstream...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 129–144.
Published: 01 March 2022
... in nuclear energy. The use of myxomatosis as a bioweapon and the creation of nuclear energy capable of radioactive pollution are also at the core of Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura’s La caza ( The Hunt , 1966). This article argues that The Hunt provides an important examination on extinction and biopolitics...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 287–290.
Published: 01 May 2014
... for those who farm or who live in the world's most polluted places. It's not just our pesticides and car fumes and flame retardants that are toxic. Fertilizer plants that produce the inputs necessary for industrial agriculture spew out acidic and radioactive tailings. The fertilizers themselves run off...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 441–459.
Published: 01 July 2024
.... The salience of phenomena such as plastic pollution, species extinction, and climate change bears testimony to the fact that our collective sense of environmental crisis has intensified. As Timothy Morton poignantly observes, “Now every time I so much as change a confounded light bulb, I have to think about...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 266–283.
Published: 01 November 2023
... with Light, or, How Texture Recasts the Sensing of Underground Water .” Science, Technology, and Human Values 44 , no. 5 ( 2019 ): 762 – 85 . Ballestero Andrea . “ Underground as Infrastructure? Figure/Ground Reversals and Dissolution in Sardinal .” In Environment, Infrastructure, and Life...
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