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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 1. “Location of Ore Bodies along the Three Vein Systems, Guanajuato Mining District.” Reproduced from Wandke and Martínez, “Guanajuato Mining District.” More
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 30–51.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Diana Pardo Pedraza Abstract Demining has not been an exclusively human affair. Mine detection dogs have been indispensable in the work of detection and in the slow but essential effort to regain trust in mine-suspected landscapes. Famously renowned for their extraordinary sensory perception...
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 2. Mine detection dog, born and trained in the GTC, resting after working in a minefield, Cambodia-Thailand border. Photograph by the author, 2015. More
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Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 2. Pieter Paul Pothoven, Main Mine, Adit #2 , from the series In Absentia (2010). Courtesy of Dürst Britt and Mayhew, The Hague, Netherlands. More
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 203–218.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Tom Özden-Schilling Abstract Government-run geological surveys have increasingly facilitated exploration for potential mines by inviting novice prospectors to sift through old datasets prior to visiting physical sites, a process known colloquially as desktop prospecting. In northern British...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 478–494.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Siobhan Angus; Warren Cariou Abstract This two-part essay turns to the landscapes of bitumen mining in the Athabasca tar sands in western Canada. Despite the environmental costs of the tar sands mining process, the Canadian state remains invested in oil extraction in the tar sands. Starting from...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 May 2020
... earth mining, the slow violence of black lung disease, the factory work, the digital consumption practices—that have propelled and intensified the country’s stupendous development as well as its ecological challenges. We find new work on eco-media and media materialism most productive, as it sheds light...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 241–264.
Published: 01 July 2022
... on a mountain destined for mining, the author excavates routes toward flourishing geographies: geographies of care-full interspecies alliances composed against Anthropocenic thinking. In concluding, the author urges for greater attention to the work of desire in studies of environmental change and the wider...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Figure 2. Pieter Paul Pothoven, Main Mine, Adit #2 , from the series In Absentia (2010). Courtesy of Dürst Britt and Mayhew, The Hague, Netherlands. ...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 25–41.
Published: 01 May 2013
... critical of the violence of American corporate capitalism and militarism, the apotheosis of which can be seen in the guise of war (Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, the “War on Terror”). Moreover, such violence has its domestic ecocidal analogy, best evidenced by strip mining and mountaintop removal. Berry's...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 257–272.
Published: 01 May 2018
... degradation, and the precarity of herding livelihoods has been a factor accelerating urbanization. Most recently, the intensification of mining activity has been a particular source of social and economic change. These contexts have led to a political and religious reevaluation of human relationships...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 137–151.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Hugo Reinert Abstract Triangulating narratives from a prospective mining site in northern Norway, this article works to identify (and render graspable) a particular effect of retroactive shock—tracing its resonance through experiences of chemical exposure, colonial racism, cultural erasure...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 108–136.
Published: 01 May 2019
... can also commit to alternative modes of writing, the article ends with a poem, “Anthropos and the Canary in the Mine.” The poem situates the analysis in the entanglement of political, ethical, theoretical, and personal passions brought about by the author’s process of mourning her life partner’s...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 95–117.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Hugo Reinert Abstract Can a stone be a critter? Placing multispecies studies in conversation with the geological turn, this article examines the place of a particular sacrifice stone in the ambit of a coastal mining development in northern Norway. The argument develops a reading of resource...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 20–39.
Published: 01 May 2018
... that could be scientifically studied and centrally planned yielded tangible results: it allowed the State’s dog husbandry program to create apparently unified groups of dogs and dog handlers and to successfully mobilize these groups for new military tasks, like mine detection, during World War II. © 2018...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 152–173.
Published: 01 May 2019
... project Asbestos (2016), shot at the mining town of Asbestos, Quebec, mobilizing a discussion of haptic visuality to theorize toxic embodiment in its relationship to reciprocity, vulnerability, and responsibility. In the case of asbestos, the boundary of inside and outside traverses a series of unfolding...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 140–144.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Figure 1. “Location of Ore Bodies along the Three Vein Systems, Guanajuato Mining District.” Reproduced from Wandke and Martínez, “Guanajuato Mining District.” ...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 236–239.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Jacob Goessling; Jordan B. Kinder References Beckett Caitlynn , and Keeling Arn . “ Rethinking Remediation: Mine Reclamation, Environmental Justice, and Relations of Care .” Local Environment 24 , no. 3 ( 2019 ): 216 – 30 . CEC (Commission for Environmental Cooperation...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 159–173.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., unyoked the prospectors from the seasonal cycles and geographical constraints of food production, allowing them to focus all their energies on mining. A metal extracted from one corner of the earth thus facilitated the extraction of another metal from another corner of the earth. Once emptied of food...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 603–623.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., the first to appear was not volume 1 but volume 3, simply entitled Mining Industry . 2 Figure 1. Timothy O’Sullivan, Karnak, Montezuma Range, Nevada , 1867. In Clarence King, Systematic Geology: Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel , vol. 2, Descriptive Geology (Washington, DC...
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