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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 159–173.
Published: 01 November 2023
... that the extraction, circulation, and consumption of tin have nevertheless contributed to the production of metabolic unevenness across continental space. Since the early industrial era, tin has been used primarily for food preservation, in which capacity it has nutritionally supported the metabolic processes...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 784–806.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of blame for the contemporary climate crisis, influencing international policy and inspiring a range of technological and economic fixes to construct “climate cattle” as keystone species for a “good Anthropocene.” Interventions are centered on bovine metabolisms at different spatial and temporal scales...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 171–194.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of killing from botrytis' body to metabolic life processes which embrace extracellular enzymes diffused throughout the wine. I suggest that pasteurisation thus displaces killing into spaces, such as wine-in-the-making, within which many metabolic lives coexist and interpenetrate. Pasteurisation therefore...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 108–128.
Published: 01 May 2017
... what it is like to do metabolic labor. 57. McGeown et al., “Effect of Carprofen on Lameness in Broiler Chickens.” 56. Knowles et al., “Leg Disorders in Broiler Chickens.” 55. Potts, Chicken , 155–58. 54. Boyd, “Making Meat,” 637. For a more detailed history of the modern broiler...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 174–179.
Published: 01 May 2019
... or alter human metabolism? This selection of poems is an attempt to work within a necessarily expanded notion of what constitutes reading and writing in the Anthropocene. Incorporating the results of biomonitoring tests for phthalates on the author’s own urine, the poems consider the “metabolic poetics...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 284–302.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Aaron Bradshaw Abstract The emergence of Ideonella sakaiensis , a microorganism with the capacity to metabolize the widely used plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET), raises important questions about how human and nonhuman agency are related in responding to pressing environmental issues...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 1–18.
Published: 01 July 2023
... harmful metabolisms of insects and fungi become integral parts of plantation cultivation—though not always successfully. The article widens our understanding of how green production methods are envisioned not as alternatives to but rather as support for industrial cultivation systems. As organic...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 180–193.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., and minds, not to mention our worlds, without individuating us in this targeting, as indifferent and random as the global dump that nourishes it. Disrupting metabolism at every scrambled register of existence, it waxes into what Marder calls “ontological toxicity,” the mangled parts of the dump that do...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 529.
Published: 01 November 2024
... on principles of relationality and reciprocity does not mean they automatically translate into twenty-first-century environmental ethics” offers a fundamentally new approach to how scholars should approach animism. We also issue a commendation to “Metabolic Strata, Corporeal Sediment,” by Andrea Marston...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 661–679.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and other prominent renewable energy resources like solar, wind, and hydropower. Fundamentally, bioenergy’s dependence on the metabolism of living organisms contrasts with the abiotic nature of solar radiation, winds, rivers, or tides. This reliance on living organisms not only enables bioenergy resources...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 205–226.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Humankind and the Rest of Nature . Buffalo, NY : McGill-Queen’s University Press , 1996 . Foster John Bellamy . “ Marx’s Theory of the Metabolic Rift: Classical Foundations for Environmental Sociology .” American Journal of Sociology 105 , no. 2 ( 1999 ): 366 – 405 . Foster John...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 195–214.
Published: 01 July 2023
... Les Beldo and political theorist Dinesh Wadiwel describe the bodily metabolic labor of chickens, their growing of flesh and production of eggs. 18 Labor studies scholar Kendra Coulter suggests the term ecosocial reproduction to describe the ecological labor necessary to renew ecosystems...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 227–249.
Published: 01 May 2020
... in a productive metabolism. 32 Marx understood labor as “a process between man and nature, a process by which man, through his own actions, mediates, regulates and controls the metabolism between himself and nature.” 33 This understanding of value creation through the coming together of labor and nature...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 3–26.
Published: 01 May 2019
... not only to a specific, set-aside pile of working waste common on organic farms but the range of often unobserved metabolic processes constantly regenerating the farm landscape. In other words, as I learned from Sally, compost is not just the strata of carbon-rich brown layers and nitrogen-rich green...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 125–148.
Published: 01 May 2014
... set of metabolic processes, most of them involving earthworms' digestion decomposing food scraps into organic matter. The entities that populate these processes proliferate. Not only are there earthworms, but also their guts, their gizzards, their whole digestive systems, their complex physiology...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 107–127.
Published: 01 May 2016
... flows—are also concealed behind the commodity form. This is the added value of John Bellamy Foster's concept of the “ecological rift,” which draws upon Marx's writings on the “metabolic rift” that opened as factory production replaced peasant production during the early days of the industrial revolution...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 195–205.
Published: 01 May 2014
... at the expense of others—death (in its varied forms) is unavoidable. Making wine, eating and growing food, being alive even, is fatal. There is an oft-neglected metabolic ecology at the heart of multispecies politics—that as Brice notes in his paper 11 —necessitates a sensitivity to the diversity of endings...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 113–123.
Published: 01 May 2014
... pasteurization of wine that aims to eliminate damaging laccase affords us not only insights into the microbial and metabolic (after)lives of wine-making, but troubles familiar notions of what counts as life and death. Each paper opens up different conceptual terrain concerning what it might mean to live...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 499–521.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., and nutrients; provided new routes for commodification; and shaped the racial dynamics of agrarian exploitation. “Soil abstractions” flattened and fixed soils and their “metabolic forces and cultural valences,” providing a measurable referent (nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium) for the quantification...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 190–204.
Published: 01 May 2020
... knowledge, continues to uphold the metabolic and epistemic rift between soils and soil publics. 48 Anna Krzywoszynska’s essay further explores the continued cocreation of agrarian capitalism and soil ontologies through a focus on the changing character of soil labor. Inspired by new scientific...