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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 (2023) 15 (1): 25–43.
Published: 01 March 2023
... ecology and her view of evolution via indigestion, symbiosis has pointed to the ways in which lives on Earth are reliant on cosmic ecologies, forces active at the level of the solar system and ecological dependencies that are difficult to trace and easy to mess with. Myra Hird and Yusoff’s work on mineral...
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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 (2017) 9 (2): 255–279.
Published: 01 November 2017
... ourselves in the place of others, sympathy read alongside machinic evolution suggests a new approach to the ecological disaster of species extinction. © 2017 Susan Ballard 2017 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). contemporary...
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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 (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 (2018) 10 (1): 273–294.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of massive magma extrusions about 1.9 billion years ago linked to the ascendance of multicellular life; volcanism present in the East African Rift during pivotal phases of human evolution; and the volcanic activity of the early-mid Holocene viewed as a contextual factor in the emergence of ancient practices...
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Oil as Solution to the Problems of Oil: The American Petroleum Institute and the Petromodern Paradox
Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 45–65.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Program that were distributed by the American Petroleum Institute (API), the trade organization that promotes the US oil industry. It first describes the evolution of support for and opposition to the oil industry as well as that of the ideas of freedom that the industry sought to mobilize to gain public...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 145–158.
Published: 01 November 2023
... difference. 8 If geos refers to earth itself, and not only to its mineral parts, then geological relations have become the domain of social theory. 9 The critique of the geological not only captures the political stakes of fossil fuels but also contends with the creatively destructive power...
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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 (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 (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...
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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 (2018) 10 (1): 213–225.
Published: 01 May 2018
... as a substratum for the emergence of biological creatures was reasserting itself, confirming that geology, far from having been left behind as a primitive stage of the earth’s evolution, fully coexisted with the soft, gelatinous newcomers.” 12 The mineral and the biological have become necessary companions...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 398–417.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of spatial production.” 21 Antarctica and outer space are here once again conflated as the exploration of mineral and biological resources becomes increasingly viable in the case of outer space, and ever more pressing in Antarctica. Microbial life flourishes in almost every environment on Earth...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 205–226.
Published: 01 May 2020
... – 85 . Manlay Raphael , Feller Christian , and Swift Michael . “ Historical Evolution of Soil Organic Matter Concepts and Their Relationships with the Fertility and Sustainability of Cropping Systems .” Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment 119 , nos. 3–4 ( 2007 ): 217...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 227–249.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., the physical breakup of bedrock by roots and the bacterial destruction of clay minerals are all the result of organisms living in the soil, and are critical soil-forming processes.” 8 This foundational liveliness of soils is producing hypes and hopes centered on the possibilities of remaking agriculture...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 331–350.
Published: 01 July 2024
... Father (2021) complicates through the perspective of rice ( Oryza sativa ) and humans in Dongting Lake. It reveals adaptive evolution, hetero-reproduction, and geontopower as three political regimes where extinctive pressures accumulate through the erosion of biocultural inheritability. The second part...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 May 2014
... minerals,’ crystals which carry “an echo of the past history of the stone.” 56 In the same manner, Oswald's doubled similes conjure alterity from repetition, representing an invocation of ‘now’ infused with the uncanny sense of other times: Like bird families feeding by a river Hundreds of geese...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 241–264.
Published: 01 July 2022
... as a species, however, does not elicit sufficient concern to move powerful actors to care for it more than the profit potential of the mountain’s mineral resources, though this does not stop others from attempting to care within a deeply “troubled ecology.” 5 The cactus exemplifies crucial gaps between...
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