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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...
View articletitled, Fermenting Feminism as Methodology and <span class="search-highlight">Metaphor</span>: Approaching Transnational Feminist Practices through Microbial Transformation
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 280–299.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Gordon M. Sayre Abstract In the last quarter-century many scientific, environmental, and popular publications have used a metaphor comparing species extinction and the loss of biodiversity in the modern era to the destruction of the ancient Library of Alexandria in Egypt more than 1,500 years ago...
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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 (2025) 17 (1): 88–106.
Published: 01 March 2025
... by interrogating the metaphorical “desert” within the food desert concept. By mapping the extensive critiques of the food desert metaphor onto longer histories of US settler colonialism and imperialism that leverage imperial ideologies about deserts as empty, barren, lacking, and in need of improvement...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 201–223.
Published: 01 May 2021
... metaphors of creating environmental knowledge as well as the potential and limits of listening as a model for integrating that knowledge. The author then questions integration as metaphor for multidisciplinary collaboration by testing its openness to listening beyond human worlds. The article closes...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 254–267.
Published: 01 March 2025
... through the lens of edaphology, identifying how poetry conceptualizes and references oil and subsoil materials. It posits the subsoil as a semiotic entity whose subterranean position and complex texture make it a potent metaphor for life as a blend and labor force awaiting exploitation. Specifically...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 May 2020
... sci-fi film Snowpiercer and argue that the film problematizes a persistent Western-centric bias in both the environmental humanities and the literature on media materialism. Inspired by the metaphoric power of Kronon, the industrial-waste-turned-explosive in Snowpiercer , we theorize...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 372–390.
Published: 01 November 2021
.... These authors, though, resisted extractive metaphors for energy and fuel, offering more organic and intimate visions of energy instead. Using energy humanities theories developed by Warren Cariou (Métis) and Bob Johnson, among others, this article will analyze Mary Jemison’s (Seneca) autobiography; Jane...
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“The Only Almost Germ-Free Continent Left”: Pandemics and Purity in Cultural Perceptions of Antarctica
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 109–127.
Published: 01 March 2023
... the continent itself and needs to be contained. Viruses in these texts are not only literal but also metaphorical, taking the form of any kind of threatening infection, and as such are linked to texts in which Antarctic purity is discursively connected to racial and gendered exclusivity. Based...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 183–200.
Published: 01 March 2024
... understandings of what nature is and how it should be protected continue to be underapplied. Indeed, the national is a key framework within which ideas about nature are presented and its potential can be put to work. In bringing these two perspectives together, the article makes both literal and metaphorical use...
View articletitled, Creating Corridors for Nature Protection: Conservation Humanities as an Intervention in Contemporary European Biodiversity Strategies
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Plotting a New Course for Environmental Humanities: Provision Grounds, Race, and the Future
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 271–290.
Published: 01 July 2024
... be characterized by more careful use of spatial metaphors, ensuring that ecocriticism and broader environmental humanities work considers the material and physical racial ecologies alongside the discursive and representational environments. [email protected] © 2024 Alex A. Moulton 2024...
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The Bell Jars: Smith College, Pelargonium sidoides , and Sylvia Plath’s Botanical Imagination
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 36–57.
Published: 01 March 2024
... on its own is untenable, and choosing one precludes the other. The bell jar metaphor conjures a sense of confinement and suffocation, but this essay offers a multispecies reading that shows why such an interpretation is too narrow. The essay looks carefully at the bell jar, its function within her story...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 501–527.
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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“The Languo of Flows”: Ecosystem Services, Cultural Value, and the Nuclear Legacy in the Irish Sea
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 280–301.
Published: 01 November 2019
... so as to capture and map a more inclusive and multidirectional sense of the flows that are integral to ecosystems, and to move beyond the limitations of dominant models of environmental stewardship. In contrast to the ways in which flow metaphors have been employed in contemporary economic...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 324–350.
Published: 01 November 2019
... to nonhuman agency through a project of human control of all environmental variables. Theories of heterotopias as counter-spaces facilitate exploration of “displacement” as a metaphor that accounts for both the attempted eviction of alternative environmental practices and the works’ ongoing strategies...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 41–67.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Robin Ryan Abstract In privileging music as a focus for applied ecology, the goal of this essay is to deepen perspectives on the musical representation of land in an age of complex environmental challenge. As the metaphor driving public narration of environmental crises, the notion of Earth as our...
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Roots
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 470–474.
Published: 01 November 2021
... being “homeward bound” toward Yoruba ancestry, was released the same year Alex Haley’s Roots aired on TV, another story tracing African American heritage. Metaphors of human rootedness reach way beyond and before 1977 USA, often being used to visualize diaspora. 2 Roots are perhaps the most...
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Growth
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 265–269.
Published: 01 March 2024
... It implies taking growth seriously and across multiple registers: as metaphor, as figure, as imaginary, as aspiration, and, not least, as material-semiotic process through which a wide range of beings and relations are made and unmade. This is not to say that thinking growth otherwise is an easy endeavor...
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Ethical Acknowledgment of Soil Ecosystem Integrity amid Agricultural Production in Australia
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 267–284.
Published: 01 May 2020
.../ architecture. Soil as Infrastructure has been discussed by Maria Puig de la Bellacasa. “Encountering Bioinfrastructure,” 1–15 . 47. The novel aspects of the body-soil metaphor (such as the vessels analogy) is generative whereas the more conventional meanings of the body metaphor (particularly the body...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 101–123.
Published: 01 May 2014
... on geoengineering in mass media. We focus on how various storylines and metaphors are interrelated in mass media, constituting a general discourse favouring more research into and testing or deployment of geoengineering. Unlike previous research, which has concentrated on mapping, identifying, and quantifying...
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