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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 284–302.
Published: 01 July 2022
... with microbial others, and specifically those microbes with the capacity to detoxify anthropogenic pollutants, may inform and enact inclusive and prescient responses to ongoing environmental degradation. Accordingly, drawing from theoretical orientations in more-than-human participatory research and animals...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 171–194.
Published: 01 May 2014
... renders killing an intervention into the metabolic relationships that tie together numerous species of microbes living within wine. In acting on wine as a whole it kills rather indiscriminately, simultaneously terminating multiple lives that relate to humans in different ways. Pasteurisation therefore...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 57–76.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Jamie Lorimer Abstract Recent work in the life sciences presents the human as a superorganism, composed of and kept alive by diverse microbial kin. We learn that this life is changing fast as a result of modern lifestyles and that missing microbes are causing epidemics of absence...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 285–287.
Published: 01 May 2020
... in the Anthropocene where the tools of mastery—over people, plants, microbes, and molecules—have devastated agricultural soils. What conceptual tools can take down the logics and rationales of the Anthropocene’s mastery over nature—in respect of agricultural soils? The papers in this special section edited...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 230–254.
Published: 01 November 2017
... August 7 , 2017 . www.artscatalyst.org/memorial-still-living “ Big Food .” PLOS Medicine . Accessed July 30 , 2016 . collections.plos.org/big-food . Blaser Martin . “ Understanding Microbe-Induced Cancers .” Cancer Prevention Research 1 , no. 1 ( 2008 ): 15 – 20...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 88–112.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). fermentation food feminism microbes art curation harm reduction Is feminism, with its etymological roots in the feminine, something worth preserving? In what ways might it be preserved? In what ways might it be transformed? Is feminism a relic...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 398–417.
Published: 01 November 2017
... centuries. 29 Historically, the Southern Ocean has been a key source of raw materials vital for medical and industrial uses, from seals to whales and plankton to microbes. As Antarctic archaeologists Andrés Zarankin and María Ximena Senatore have argued, at the end of the nineteenth century...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 301–305.
Published: 01 May 2014
... is a viral gene, indicating viral infection enabled the evolutionary emergence of mammals. 6 In these stories, the human is really part microbe. Infection allows for renewed friendship between the humanities and social sciences, and evolutionary theory. Virulent strains arise through random mutation...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 64–86.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., informatization, or the discovery of microbes that have also challenged habits and habitats? 16 It appears, then, that although initially accessed by way of modern scientific epistemology and reacting to modern technological interventions by becoming increasingly inhospitable, Earth in the Anthropocene...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 784–806.
Published: 01 November 2024
... by an alternative element from the halogen group. “These halogenated compounds are similar to some of the enzymes that the microbes in the cow require to change hydrogen and CO 2 into methane,” the scientist added. “The last step of converting carbohydrates into methane requires a certain enzyme—a methanogen...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 265–283.
Published: 01 July 2022
... . “ Missing Microbes and Other Gendered Microbiopolitics in Bovine Fermentation .” Current Anthropology 62 , no. S24 ( 2021 ): S276 – 86 . Trubek Amy . “ Radical Taste: What Is Our Future? ” Radical History Review 110 ( 2011 ): 192 – 96 . Tsing Anna . “ Arts of Inclusion; or, How...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 25–43.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., in Cosmos , astronomer Carl Sagan affirmed that finding evidence of alien life must set the limit to human exploration of space: “If there is life on Mars, I believe we should do nothing with Mars. Mars then belongs to the Martians, even if the Martians are only microbes.” 1 This view remains popular...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 267–284.
Published: 01 May 2020
... grasses throughout the year ensures that the soil surface is protected and the soil ecosystem is fed with sugars, the products of photosynthesis. Each different plant species secretes a unique mix of sugars to attract particular microbes. 30 Most partner with mycorrhizal fungi, which help to build soil...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 190–204.
Published: 01 May 2020
... perspectives on soils that increasingly stress their living component, especially soil microbes, farming communities are similarly attending to soil biota. This attentiveness is producing a practical and conceptual shift in the way that human-soil relations are imagined and performed in modern, conventional...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 159–180.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., and indeed in higher numbers than were found during a previous trip undertaken by one of the researchers (pers. comm., February 5, 2019). Corals provide a particularly good example of interspecies symbiosis, exchanging nutrients with algae and numerous microbes. 29 The bright colors of corals come...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 113–123.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., ... I love that when “I” die, all these benign and dangerous symbionts will take over and use whatever is left of “my” body, if only for a while, since “we” are necessary to one another in real time. 9 Building on this posthumanist impulse, studies of microbes have charted the importance...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 239–241.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., a cockroach, microbes, or a dandelion.” Thinking with indistinct flesh, or in my terms, thinking as the very stuff of the world, can radiate curiosity and concern in multiple directions, as we consider how every species must inhabit the ever more precarious crossroads of body, place, and (toxic) substances...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 454–474.
Published: 01 November 2020
.../27/decolonizing-against-extinction-part-ii-extinction-is-not-a-metaphor-it-is-literally-genocide/ . Monbiot George . “ Why Whale Poo Matters .” Guardian , December 12 , 2014 . Nicholson Wayne L. , Schuerger Andrew C. , and Race Margaret S. “ Migrating Microbes...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 309–324.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Frontiers.” 1 Both events aimed to look at how the frontiers of life continue to shift and expand in remarkable ways. Biological organisms have been discovered in the world’s driest deserts as well as in subglacial lakes and in hot springs, while airborne microbes have been captured in the stratosphere...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 460–463.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., but as mundane and sticky, monotonous, and sometimes foul. It is the cultivating of microbes in our sourdoughs and the molding of our cheeses, complemented by the digestive process of enzymes, acids, and bacteria that break them down ( fig. 1 ). It is the rancid stink of female gingko trees, their fruits...
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