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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 227–232.
Published: 01 May 2016
... to describe An Ecomodernist Manifesto, this is it. Amnesia. In two registers. First, amnesia about the deeply uneven and violent nature of modernization. And second, about the struggles that have underpinned every effort to alleviate inequality and violence. We start with Galeano because he died two...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 447–472.
Published: 01 November 2018
... not to some immaterial quality of mind or soul, but rather to the distinctiveness of human anatomy. It was, we will argue, the body—and, above all, the head—which provided the basis of a modern attempt to establish that humans were creatures of a categorically different order from all other animals. More...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 159–180.
Published: 01 May 2021
... projects are those that can be expanded without altering their basic elements. 44 The artificial production of the forest evokes the logic of a plantation, which for Tsing represents “the triumph of technical prowess over nature,” as indeed modernity does more broadly. 45 The plantation...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 427–460.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of tian ren he yi (“the unity of heaven and humanity”; 天人合一). For Lu, Chinese religions such as Buddhism and Daoism and local cultures tend to be ecologically oriented and hence serve as the antidote to China’s reckless modernity. Currently, courses on ecocriticism, ecoaesthetics, ecological...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 110–128.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Andrew McCumber; Patrick Neil Dryden Abstract Archaeology and anthropology treat the presence of animals in mythology and folklore as axiomatically about a culture’s ideas of nature. Sociology often assumes modernity no longer has such myths, but animal imagery abounds. In this article, the authors...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 107–128.
Published: 01 May 2018
... that seem to change the course of history. I suggest that the intersection of temporal and spatial relationships embedded within the watershed concept reveals the interaction between modernist conceptions of space and time, enabling the persistence of trauma and violence that characterizes modernity...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 250–266.
Published: 01 May 2020
... as a technical response to issues brought by sprawling cities, backgrounding soils again under a trope centered on the management of soil services. These stories allow to critically inhabit soil scientists’ claim that humans participate in pedogenesis by examining the specific conditions in which modern modes...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 64–86.
Published: 01 March 2023
.... The purpose here is to elucidate the ways in which this correlation is made, and to inquire after the role of science—a modern activity par excellence—in the advent of the world of the Anthropocene. The critical question is how this role could be legitimated in the proclaimed absence of a modern framework...
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Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 1. Olafur Eliasson, The Presence of Absence Pavilion, 2019. Bronze, 200 × 100 × 100 cm, installation view: Tate Modern, London, 2019. Photo: Anders Sune Berg. Courtesy the artist; Neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York/Los Angeles. © 2019 Olafur Eliasson.
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Published: 01 May 2012
Figure 8 A machine in Tifa Tours that broke down while printing diplomas for University of Costa Rica graduates. The cooperative became inactive after the machines stopped functioning. Spectral promises made to the women of Bagatzí—fictions and fabulations about modernity—evaporated
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Published: 01 May 2017
Figure 4. Olafur Eliasson, The Weather Project , 2003. Monofrequency lights, projection foil, haze machines, mirror foil, aluminum, scaffolding 26.7 × 22.3 × 155.44 m. Tate Modern, London, 2003. Photo by Olafur Eliasson. Courtesy of the artist; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; and Tanya Bonakdar
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 388–405.
Published: 01 May 2020
... some possible reasons why modern society is failing to respond to impending crisis. Fine-grained stories of spatiotemporally specific geographies of extinction can help to counter the logic of colonization and bring everyday ecocide into view. For the particular multispecies communities they concern...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 303–320.
Published: 01 July 2022
... Europe. This article argues that, in its modern iteration, appropriation of the native informant within the natural context serves anxieties concerning potentially illegitimate land stewardship for settler colonial societies. Focusing on the native informant figure in Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 641–660.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of the zoo. Departing from the queer critique of reproductive futurism, it demonstrates that in the modern zoo, reproduction is removed from sexuality. By mapping out the more-than-human dimensions of chronopolitics at the zoo, this article unravels the complex process of transposing sexual acts...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 391–413.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Yota Batsaki Abstract Anselm Kiefer’s monumental Secret of the Ferns (2007) redirects the artist’s apocalyptic sensibility, honed in response to the Holocaust, to the slow violence of extinction. The installation adopts a foundational practice of early modern natural history: the herbarium’s...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 475–493.
Published: 01 July 2022
... Bennett’s Enchantment of Modern Life , the article captures how sensibilities and moralities swing from anethical moments to affective forms of responsibility. By comparing walks at a recreational beach with activists’ campaigns at a peri-urban commons and a climate activist march in the capital center...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 618–640.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of nature and the nonhuman in the production of modern concepts of sex, gender, and sexuality and the important role that dance can play in illuminating the intersection of sex and nature. [email protected] © 2022 Ina Linge 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 227–249.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Anna Krzywoszynska Abstract With soils increasingly seen as living ecosystems, the understanding of the relationship between soils and agricultural labor is changing. A shift from working the soil to working with the soil is hoped to deliver a true ecological modernization of capitalist agriculture...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 168–186.
Published: 01 March 2023
...—that is, as a social articulation of an organic process in which the causes and impacts are at once natural and social. Then the essay discusses the different extinction imaginaries that have operated across modernity, before finally turning to the writings of the Extinction Studies Working Group, whose conception...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 19–38.
Published: 01 July 2023
...-living pigs’ shifting agency and identity. Introduced pigs were modern English breeds, domesticates in nascent capitalist stages of unmaking. Yet, these animals were made anew in Australia, living largely unmediated and demonstrating remarkable adaptability to novel environments. This article analyzes...
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