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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 419–437.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of the ontological and ethical limits of human care, limits made visible by the nonhumans’ potentials to respond to our actions and affect us. Reflections on the limits of care foster an attentiveness to the conditions responsible for nonhumans’ ability of enchantment, a term that in Bennett’s proposal concerns...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 19–39.
Published: 01 May 2014
... development in that limited region.” 14 Morgan notes that the Tennessee Valley is “peculiarly suitable” for use as an experimental testing ground for the idea of using government planning to control an entire region's natural resources and improve its human population. In the following statements, Morgan...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 103–121.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., and microbial pathogens continue to globalise, place-based health interventions that limit animals to particular locales are proving inadequate. Risky zoographies signal the inextricability of nonhuman animals from human spaces, and reveal interspecies interactions that transect and transcend environments...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 351–372.
Published: 01 November 2019
... possible social relations.” 6 And yet I also worry about the limits of grief. What does my grieving for this guinea pig do ? In this context, what are the politics of “feeling with animals,” as geographer Kathryn Gillespie might say? 7 And what about Walter? Following Bhrigupati Singh and Dave...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 341–358.
Published: 01 November 2017
... and Donnacha Kirk 2017 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). cosmology life Boltzmann Brains limits speculation When trying to trace the recent interest in “life” as a subject of anthropological study, it is striking...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 370–396.
Published: 01 November 2018
... though the methods employed can be destructive and long-term success is often limited. Building on recent work critiquing categorical approaches to invasive species management, we argue that such campaigns obscure not only the underlying conditions but also the ongoing production of plant invasiveness...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 201–223.
Published: 01 May 2021
... by sonifying data sets, across disciplines by commissioning convergent lines of research from humanities and sciences, and across political boundaries by creating cross-coastal exchanges. Working from reflection on CFC practices, the author evaluates the potential and the limits of a pivot from ocular to aural...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 202–215.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and hierarchies, of seeing subjectivity and vitality and resilience where blankness or death or limit have usually been the standard terms. Their work marks the beginning of what we can expect will be a wave of scholarship offering correctives to past silence and simplifications. [email protected] © 2022...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 71–91.
Published: 01 May 2013
... which unfold through ongoing, negotiated and changing relations between people and things. Rather than a fear of limits, the excess of possibilities inherent in this vision of the ‘manifold commons’ provides him, and us, with a different way to imagine and enact alternative forms of social and natural...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 72–100.
Published: 01 May 2019
... communities do not always welcome regulatory and technological interventions aiming to limit environmental impact, and climate change, environmentalism, and the Anthropocene are often perceived as distant and empty intellectualisms. Through an ethnographic account about an uncanny technology, this article...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 37–56.
Published: 01 May 2016
... stereotypes into the domain of animals and limited the scope of the scientific imagination. DNA test kits enabled us to determine that the frogs used in our study were not carrying the pathogenic chytrid fungus. Getting past stigma attached to particular species and locales, we found that parasites...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 19–38.
Published: 01 July 2023
... motivations sought to reductively read the free-living pig as toxic and illegitimate, and to rebrand the “wild” pig as “feral.” To be feral in Australia is to be part of a systematic process that institutes strict limitations on an animal’s relational possibilities. By problematizing all life-sustaining...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 129–147.
Published: 01 May 2013
.... In conclusion, I submit that while technological and managerial approaches have a place in addressing ecological problems, our predicament primarily calls for a drastic pulling back and scaling down of the human presence—welcoming limitations of our numbers, economies, forms of habitation, and uses of land...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 7–21.
Published: 01 May 2012
... this logic (and its concomitant logistics) cannot cleave to a view of beings that is reductionist in any sense. Thus the potential for using Deleuze and Guattari to exit modernity is limited. What is required is a deconstruction of existing (agri)cultures and logics, rather than an attempt to push past them...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., the control that our conscious agency can exercise upon planetary transformation is very limited even over human time scales, let alone geologic ones. First, a sentient organism controls only a minute proportion of its total activities. Our lives would be unsustainably exhausting if we had to concentrate...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 475–491.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Kin , setting out concerns about their turn to (over)population through the analytical insights, historical perspectives, and empirical data of Murphy and Sasser. By putting these three books in dialogue with one another, this essay argues that responsibility for limitations on one’s ability to make...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 162–181.
Published: 01 March 2022
... marine animals and environments alluded to by the books, it addresses the limitations and opportunities of anthropomorphism, and the significance of the concept of agency in the environmental humanities and children’s literature studies. It argues that the gleeful rhymes of The Snail and the Whale...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 65–82.
Published: 01 November 2023
... to describe how the subscribers to this discourse picture the human relationship with the natural world, and how this in turn enables them to believe that the market can overcome environmental limits indefinitely. This analysis brings to the fore a belief apparently underlying their faith in unending growth...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 142–161.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Jane Robbins Mize Abstract This article argues that Lorine Niedecker’s 1968 poem “Lake Superior” reveals a limitation of recent scholarly investments in the concept of geological “deep time.” “Lake Superior” is a meditation on deep time; the Europeans who colonized the Great Lakes; and Lake...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 95–117.
Published: 01 May 2016
... capitalism as ontological project—using the stone as a lens to explore imaginaries of relational personhood, the distribution of harm, and the limits of vulnerability. In closing, the article relates the “life” of the stone to ongoing discussions about the Anthropocene and how to develop novel, more...
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