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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 321–345.
Published: 01 May 2020
... developments in the emergent fields of resurrection biology and liminality to conceptualize the anabiotic (not living nor dead) state of de/extinction. Through two stories, this article explores the epistemological perturbation caused by the suspended animation of genetic material. Contrasting the genomic...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 167–172.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., “Anabiosis and the Liminal Geographies of De/extinction.” 13. I am grateful to an anonymous reviewer for this observation. 14. McCormack, “Remotely Sensing Affective Afterlives.” 15. Barua, “Encounter.” 16. A theme best expressed by Foucault, “What Is Enlightenment...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 195–205.
Published: 01 May 2014
... such terrestrial familiarities are undermined by the birds' liminal, aquatic and (to a lesser extent) aerial ecologies. For, as the authors of one field guide to auks notes, ‘their structure is sculpted by water, rather than air.’ 17 Auks feed in the sea and only come to land to breed. Nesting on remote islands...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 418–432.
Published: 01 November 2017
... to Antarctica . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1998 . Turner Victor . “ Liminality and Communitas .” The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-structure 94 ( 1969 ): 130 . Verne Jules . A Journey to the Center of the Earth . France : Pierre-Jules Hetzel , 1864 . 29...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 255–258.
Published: 01 May 2016
... walks to the altar by itself, offering its throat to be slit. As long as the willingness of the victim can be construed, the integrity of the rite is preserved. Here the efficacy hinges on an appearance of consent, on devices that conceal the exercise of force. In a liminal space between murder...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 288–295.
Published: 01 May 2020
... conceptualizing of attempts to genetically sequence the bucardo (an extinct subspecies of Pyrenean ibex whose genome was preserved in the late twentieth century), and the woolly mammoth (whose genetic sequence is still being worked on), explores the liminality of categories of extinct and non-extinct to argue...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 522–542.
Published: 01 November 2022
... and Donaldson distinguish among domesticated (citizens), wild (sovereign), and “liminal” (denizens) animals. 20 But this clean categorization fails to account for the entanglements we describe in this article, where liminal animals mix with both wild and domestic and all are subject to management...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 295–309.
Published: 01 May 2018
... appearance is customarily deemed to portend imminent mortality 37 —often the mortality of the witnesses themselves. Like death, the Shuck’s liminal quality 38 incorporates both indeterminacy and certainty—we do not know what death is exactly or where we shall meet it, but we know precisely what happens...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 May 2018
.... Watching the animation unfold to its discordant sound track, the viewer is held in this state of affective unease, a liminal intensity that neither restrains nor unleashes any singularity of experience. For both viewer and media it is as if renewal were held at bay, as if a wounding without potential binds...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 641–660.
Published: 01 November 2022
... did not leave much to chance, and they collected ovarian tissue from the deceased turtle to freeze it for future research and species resurrection efforts. With this kind of liminal story, nobody would even dare to question the heterosexuality of animals at the very brink of extinction. In fact...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 93–112.
Published: 01 May 2021
... residents had moved into new social housing buildings to the south, others remained in the old walk-ups. Around the perimeter of some of the old buildings that summer, scraggly patches of lawn were replaced with food-producing plants. The people who planted in these liminal spaces between building...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 661–679.
Published: 01 November 2022
... nonhuman animal categories that dominate environmental humanities scholarship. 59 Frogs, as Charlotte Sleigh notes, are “liminal creatures: animals of the in-between.” They are the “largest creatures to undergo such a dramatic metamorphosis,” from a water existence to a terrestrial one, and adults...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 29–48.
Published: 01 March 2022
... the figural child and male protagonist for their relationship to a liminal coast. 18 In comparison to contemporary depictions of postapocalyptic society, such as the often-studied narrative of Mad Max: Fury Road , 19 Waterworld ’s application as a site for ecocritical reimagining is muddy. Waterworld...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 169–186.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of Chicana/o (Mexican American) writers—which often lament the dispossession of and longing for their ancestral homelands in what is now the American Southwest—should be counted as nature writing equally with the cabin-narrative canon. 19 The cabin narrator, from a liminal epistemological point of view...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 3–26.
Published: 01 May 2019
... metamorphosis. They are composed of stories, and of “the ruined objects piled up on the landscape . . . not just some kind of resistance, or even the resilience of a way of life, but the actual residue of people ‘making something of things.’” 61 Such worlds are fragile zones of liminality, pregnant...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 89–109.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and Natural Resources 31 , no. 3 ( 2018 ): 320 – 34 . Searle Adam . “ Anabiosis and the Liminal Geographies of De/extinction .” Environmental Humanities 12 , no. 1 ( 2020 ): 321 – 45 . Smith Mick . “ Dis(appearance): Earth, Ethics, and Apparently (In)significant Others...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 341–360.
Published: 01 July 2022
... was established. Still today, just a few kilometers away from our garden, the liminal peri-urban belt between the volcano’s mouth and the most densely populated area in Italy continues to attract and burn waste. The storied landscape that connects my body and my grandparents’ garden to this ancient land is made...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 May 2013
... Agricultural productivity into Big Macs and Coke plants her in a similarly liminal threshold. It is a threshold that paradoxically entrenches yet undermines U.S. imperialism at home and abroad and confronts omnivores-always-on-the-move a thousand miles away with the ecological impact and carbon footprint...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 55–75.
Published: 01 May 2014
... deliberately frustrates symbolic readings, undermines them with the strangeness of his protagonists, the gratuitous, awkward and quixotic violence of Kit's behaviour and the almost nonsensical narration of Holly's voiceovers. Malick's film leaves the spectator in a liminal space of suspension. While...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 69–93.
Published: 01 May 2014
... collaborators, and in my own experience, this juncture, the liminal space between puppet and human hand sparks an intense emotional trigger for some. I have taken to warning audiences of the powerful nature of the piece when I play the filmed version because of this moment. The hand in the puppet (Becky...
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