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in On Displacement: Revealing Hidden Ways of Being through Site-Specific Art
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 7. Swale’ s infrastructure is composed of simple materials typical of a community garden. Courtesy of Mary Mattingly.
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Ralph Litzinger; Fan Yang Abstract This article brings together recent writing on eco-media, media materialism, and racialized Otherness to rethink the place of China and Asia in debates about the Anthropocene. We begin by examining the nonwhite postapocalyptic futures imagined in Bong Joon-ho’s...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 181–194.
Published: 01 July 2023
..., scholars in the environmental humanities are currently facing a difficult choice: should we opt for an “old” or a “new” materialism? This essay argues that this confrontation between new materialism and eco-Marxism pivots not on ontological differences, as is often assumed, but on diverging attitudes...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 100–117.
Published: 01 March 2024
... , 338 . 33. Dương Thu Hương, Zenith , 468 . [email protected] © 2024 Yen Vu 2024 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Southeast Asia Vietnam eco-literature materialism karma In the works Những...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 624–642.
Published: 01 November 2024
...John Drew Abstract This analysis considers how education positioned at the intersections of literature and nature can help expose and confront the violence of animal agriculture. To do so, it extends from field research in London, Canada, with children who discursively and materially engaged...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 190–204.
Published: 01 May 2020
... in much of public and intellectual life speaks not only to the literal invisibility of their subterranean elements but also to their taken-for-granted effectiveness as the material infrastructure of societies. Today’s crisis of soil ecosystems calls for an urgent examination and improvement of human-soil...
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Published: 01 November 2018
Figure 1. A domestic composting methodology and material metaphor for environmental humanities. Courtesy of Jennifer Mae Hamilton and Earlwood Farm
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 150–170.
Published: 01 May 2018
... in Britain and Belgium to argue that remnants, re-creations, and reenactments of the extinct great auk offer a material substrate from which to grasp a human drive to achieve contiguity with a lost species. Re-creation as a form of attentive reanimation by dedicated experts takes shape both discursively...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 May 2015
... in which memory, movement and materiality play full parts. I consider absence, loss and displacement and how they operate within self-landscape practice, and how particular forms of materiality (in this case, large bridges) become charged with all sorts of emotions relating to personal history (how bridges...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 414–432.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Philip Hüpkes; Gabriele Dürbeck Abstract This article focuses on an important aspect of aesthetics in the context of the Anthropocene: the situatedness of aesthetic techniques and operations within earth’s (changing) materiality. Aesthetics is not only a way of making sensible but also contributes...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 62–84.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Fiona R. Cameron; Ben Dibley; David S. Ellsworth Abstract Historical, cultural, and technological collections are routinely put to work to illustrate narratives of progress, history, and identity. They can also convey new stories that articulate how cultural objects might serve as material...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 136–158.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Kate Lewis Hood Abstract This article offers an account of “toxic infrastructures” as mutually material and discursive arrangements operating in the postwar, postcrash, and settler colonial landscapes of the United States. It specifically responds to Jennifer Scappettone’s multimodal poetic work...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 385–402.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Lukas Becker Abstract The omnipresence of petroleum makes it an essential part of a history of the modern world. However, this ubiquity also presents a challenge as to which archival materials historians should use to tell this story. By using material gathered during fieldwork in the Colombian oil...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 88–112.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Lauren Fournier Abstract This article proposes the possibilities of fermentation, or microbial transformation, as a material practice and speculative metaphor through which to approach today’s transnational feminisms. The author approaches this from the perspective of their multiyear curatorial...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 162–181.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... Drawing on new materialism and multispecies studies, the article argues that these two picture books exemplify the possibilities inherent in children’s literature of imaging encounters with multispecies communities and apprehending the dynamic agencies of the material world. With reference to the real...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 341–360.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Ilenia Iengo Abstract This toxic autobiography seeks to open the conversation around the intersecting injustices marking the epistemological, material, political, and porous entanglements between endometriosis, the bodily inflammatory chronic condition the author is affected by, and the toxic waste...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 271–290.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Alex A. Moulton Abstract This article suggests that the notion of “the plot” has methodological and epistemological value for the environmental humanities. Conceptualized in the work of Sylvia Wynter, the plot—as material site and narrative mode crucial to the novel form—offers a heuristic...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 169–190.
Published: 01 May 2016
... indestructible waste materials from past to present to future: through waste, we bequeath a set of politically, historically, and materially constituted relations, structures, norms, and practices with which future generations must engage. What was for Inuit simply “a default to universal order...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 261–276.
Published: 01 May 2014
... with practices of environing: each studies the material and symbolic transformations by which “the environment” is configured as a space for human action. Three areas of research are singled out as offering promising models for cooperation between ecocriticism and environmental history: eco-historicism...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 21–41.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Mick Smith Abstract How might a posthumanist notion of ecological community attempt to address questions concerning extinction? Such irredeemable losses are explicated through four aspects of ecological/community relations—material manifestation (appearances), material involvement (effects...
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