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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Paul Gillen Abstract Mineral evolution (ME) is a geologic paradigm postulating that Earth’s minerals formed sequentially and have interacted with life forms for billions of years. The evolution of Earth and its minerals is therefore entangled with the evolution of life. This “Provocation” ponders...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 52–71.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Alok Amatya Abstract This article studies the depiction of indigenous struggles against the grab of minerals, crude oil, and other natural resources by private and government corporations in works such as Arundhati Roy’s travel essay “Walking with the Comrades” (2010). Roy’s narrative of her...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 159–173.
Published: 01 November 2023
... (and labor power) of workers, settlers, and soldiers, among others. Tin canning technologies relied, in turn, on the relentless labor of tin miners, whose own metabolic processes were interrupted by the accumulation of mineral dust in their lungs. These histories have been archived as geosocial strata...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 203–218.
Published: 01 November 2023
... has also shaped how prospectors discern what kinds of homes bear the risks of mineral exploration labor. With free maps and simple analytical software in hand, BC-based geotechnical institutions insist, individual prospectors might yet play critical roles in luring mineral exploration companies back...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 251–265.
Published: 01 November 2023
... that a planet modified by human activity would be a better earth. Coal played a particular role in mediating between earth and atmosphere, mineral and life, and matter and energy. This article details several of these secular consolations offered to popular audiences by prominent climate scientists to show...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 603–623.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Theo Reeves-Evison Abstract In its narrow sense, prospecting is defined as the search for mineral deposits with a view to exploit them for financial gain. In the last few decades, this definition has been expanded to include bioprospecting, in which genetic resources are transformed...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 152–173.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Sasha Litvintseva Abstract Asbestos is a fibrous mineral. Airborne asbestos—similar to nuclear radiation and chemical atmospheric pollutants—is invisible to the naked eye, and living and breathing alongside it has deferred toxic effects on human bodies. The toxicity of asbestos operates...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 149–171.
Published: 01 November 2016
... appreciation of the mineral and the alignment between geology and social-cultural theory. While geosocialities overlap with nature-cultures and “biosocialities,” they are “harder” in the sense of drawing attention to geology and its relation to social life. Such a move seems timely, keeping in mind the popular...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 140–144.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of accounting and registration that attempt to capture and contain it, without ever completely succeeding. In the context of scientific practice linked to extractivism, these take the form of mining, engineering, and the taxonomic sciences that described, engridded, and collected the world of rocks and minerals...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 May 2020
... University Press , 2010 . Maxwell Richard , and Miller Toby . Greening the Media . New York : Oxford University Press , 2012 . McIvor Arthur , and Johnston Ronald . Miner’s Lung: A History of Dust Disease in British Coal Mining . London : Routledge Press , 2016...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 119–139.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of relational exercises and reenactments that invite reflection on the individual and collective agency of more-than-mineral entities and the boundaries of what it means to be alive. In particular, I turn to the instructional practices of the (anti)art movement Fluxus, a group of artists, designers, architects...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 142–161.
Published: 01 March 2024
... collection North Central . Described by Douglas Crase as “that spare ferropastoral of a poem,” “Lake Superior” diverges from Niedecker’s broader body of work on water. 32 Crase’s neologism, “ferropastoral,” gestures to the tender attention Niedecker pays to the rocks and minerals (especially iron...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 45–65.
Published: 01 May 2021
... traumas to the far reaches of the mineral frontier.” 18 Five years later, Upton Sinclair published Oil! , the “ur-example of [the] fictional literature on oil and trauma,” which described “resource waste, toxic spills and fires, market manipulation, labor exploitation, pastoral decline, political...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 141–163.
Published: 01 March 2023
... to do with digging. After decades of traditional surface mining, it was necessary for miners to dig down six or seven feet with excavators and dredgers to access the remaining gold deposits. The arrival of the machinery around 2012 changed everything. Neriet’s assessment of the situation was shared...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 205–226.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., as is clear in his writings on politics, Liebig himself was deeply engaged with the power of material inquiry to support political change. Notably, in distilling plant growth to the mineral components of soil, Liebig’s law of the minimum excluded conditions such as temperature, moisture, oxidation, soil...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2024
... century Italian painter Cennino Cennini, “the most perfect of all colours.” 20 The ultramarine pigment is mostly composed of the blue mineral lazurite, which is the main component of the lapis lazuli mineral stone (a “stone from the sky”: lapis is Latin for “stone,” lazuli came to Latin via...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 213–225.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., symbiosis, parasitism, eating, and being eaten. There is also widespread interest across the environmental humanities in the geologic as a way of exploring connections with deep time. 8 Rocks, strata, minerals, sedimentations, and more have opened avenues for reorienting thinking around different...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 495–511.
Published: 01 July 2024
..., petroleum, and other minerals” for ninety years in the area between Camamu and Ilhéus, where Maraú Peninsula is located. 31 He may have been the first to include petroleum in his petition, but he was not alone in looking for fossil fuels in the area. From the 1850s onward, Brazil’s imperial...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 174–189.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration (MTA) was carrying out an oil shale exploration project. This unconventional hydrocarbon exploration venture was a part of the government’s larger plans to decrease Turkey’s chronic energy dependency. As Turkish fighter jets bombed parts of eastern Anatolia...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 257–272.
Published: 01 May 2018
... Gee calls out from the future to the ancestors that “Real wealth isn’t what’s under you,” he also points an accusing finger at mining activity. Mining has become Mongolia’s largest economic sector, and during the start of the 2010s mineral extraction fueled rapid rise in the GDP growth rate, which...