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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 57–76.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... There is a growing interest in restoring components of the microbiome. This article explores some of the implications of these developments for multispecies studies through a focus on helminth therapy—the selective reintroduction of parasitic worms as “gut buddies” to tackle autoimmune disease. It first traces...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 784–806.
Published: 01 November 2024
... at multiple smaller scales including individual cows, their microbiomes, and their genomes. Research, however, suggests that these interventions do not neatly scale back up as invoked by those deploying them for climate-related ends. Rather, the global scale functions discursively to incentivize bovine...
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The Political Life of Cancer: Beatriz da Costa’s Dying for the Other and Anti-cancer Survival Kit
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 230–254.
Published: 01 November 2017
... diets. A range of thinkers and writers have adopted landscape metaphors for the human microbiome, from science bloggers to biologists to philosophers. 66 Elsewhere I have attended to the ways in which the human microbiome has been figured ecologically. 67 In this article I have dwelled on how...
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Nonhuman Labor and the Making of Resources: Making Soils a Resource through Microbial Labor
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 227–249.
Published: 01 May 2020
... into improving productivity, more direct ways of intervening in and reshaping the soil microbiome in the interests of agriculture are opening up through the use of genetic analysis and modification technologies. The emerging knowledge of soil microbiome ecologies is being linked with efforts to engineer soil...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 284–302.
Published: 01 July 2022
... a bacterial species with an appetite for the commonly used plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET). 6 Ideonella sakaiensis was found lurking in the “ecosystems of excess” and “feral” ecologies outside a plastic recycling facility in Sakai, and, unlike the organisms of the human microbiome or the SARS-CoV...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 190–204.
Published: 01 May 2020
... is increasingly explored through new metagenomics technologies, flooding researchers with data of potential commercial value. As one soil scientist told us, “Every time we sequence bulk genome from soil we discover thousands of new species of bacteria.” 32 For some scientists, the potential of soil microbiome...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 265–283.
Published: 01 July 2022
... well with bacteria also provides conceptual inspiration for pushing back against the purity politics of humanist gastronomy. 34 Eating well for humans depends on the microorganisms that inhabit our stomach. The rules of the stomach are already always more than human. The gut microbiome, which...
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Microbial Geographies at the Extremes of Life
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 398–417.
Published: 01 November 2017
... D. R. , Alberti A. , and Cornejo-Castillo F. M. “ Structure and Function of the Global Ocean Microbiome .” Science 348 , no. 6237 : 1261 – 359 . Valentine David , Olson Valerie A. , and Battaglia Debbora . “ Extreme: Limits and Horizons in the Once and Future...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 39–61.
Published: 01 July 2023
..., shopping malls, a community center, and schools equipped with new gyms and sports grounds. Conversely, Harada turned away from these objects of massive accumulation; his version of madei entered the microbiome of soil compounded with radiocesium molecules. It was driven by the situatedness of Iitate’s...
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What Is the Terroir of Synthetic Yeast?
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 40–62.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., and human activity. 58 To that list other industry bodies, academic researchers, and aficionados have been adding the influence of other elements of the wine-making ecosystem: native plants, domesticated animals, soil architecture, 59 politics, 60 and the local microbiome of yeast and bacteria. 61...
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Weird
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 275–280.
Published: 01 May 2021
... in an emergent whole. For Timothy Morton, the ecological is weird and the weird is ecological, as “to exist at all is to assume the form of a loop.” 7 Weird ecological loops stitch together apparently distinct spatialities and temporalities, like a montage, 8 from the microbiome to the planetary ecosystem...
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Art for a Future Planet: Beyond Apocalypse
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 159–180.
Published: 01 May 2021
... on individual species with the study of multicellular organisms as holobionts, consisting of a host and a microbiome, connected by means of myriad forms of collaboration and coevolution. 30 Microbiomes have been shown to play a vital part in the resilience and adaptation of their host by helping them...
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Down to Earth: Geosocialities and Geopolitics
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 149–171.
Published: 01 November 2016
... Origins of Salmon.” 52. Weiner and Dove, “Overview of Biomineralization Processes,” 2. 53. Ibid., 16. 54. Bennett, Vibrant Matter , 10–11. 55. Gould, “Animal Navigation,” 483. 56. Cryan and Dinan, “Mind-Altering Microorganisms”; Wang and Kasper, “Role of the Microbiome...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 88–112.
Published: 01 May 2020
... activists are aware of the ways a food microbiome is tied to a human microbiome, and the ways these biomes are tied to capitalist consumption and production as well as countercultural practices of consumption and production that challenge capitalism’s aims. In her discussion of what she terms...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 348–371.
Published: 01 November 2021
... sapiens as Homo economicus , arguing that society is reducible to the economy. 57 But Homo sapiens is also Homo microbius —and sapiens would be unwise to forget that. The Human Microbiome Project has determined that, at a cellular level, any given person is only between 1 and 10 percent human. 58...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 May 2016
... understanding and appreciation of the human. At every level—from the individual organism, through diverse forms of community and collective life, to the species itself—humanity is coconstituted inside dense webs of lively exchange. For example, emerging findings about the microbiome reveal that, within our...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 697–708.
Published: 01 November 2024
... primacy toward an ecological reality where . . . human and nonhuman animals, species, microbiomes, ecosystems, oceans, and rivers—and the relations among and across them—are all subjects of justice.” 20 While alert to the ontological messes and entanglements that invariably lurk beneath dichotomic...
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Forest Forms and Ethical Life
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 401–418.
Published: 01 July 2022
... visible and not so readily visible, as these become available to me through ethnography, broadly construed. In a broader sense I use forest to refer to any entity that can be understood as an “ecology of mind.” 5 In this sense our gut microbiome is a forest, our minds with their multiple selves...
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Ethical Acknowledgment of Soil Ecosystem Integrity amid Agricultural Production in Australia
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 267–284.
Published: 01 May 2020
... the main processes and relations occur outside and between bodies, which may be disrupted at any time. 49 The coherence of an organism in terms of its physical bone, muscular, and skin continuity owes itself largely to endogenous developmental processes (despite the importance of microbiomes). The image...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 37–56.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... Using DNA test kits from the Amphibian Disease Laboratory at the San Diego Zoo, we also checked the microbiomes of all the frogs—a total of twenty-one animals, including Loretta—for pathogenic chytrid fungi. We used the DNA test kits to test outbreak narratives orbiting around Xenopus frogs. None...
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