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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 66–92.
Published: 01 May 2021
.... The botanical garden’s curatorial practices silenced histories of colonial occupation, frontier violence, colonial agriculture, and slavery that had shaped the land on which it was built. Narratives that celebrated colonial histories were cultivated in monumental gardening. Throughout its existence...
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View articletitled, Radical Stories in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden: Emergent Ecologies’ Challenges to Colonial <span class="search-highlight">Narratives</span> and Western Epistemologies
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 162–182.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Daniel Haines Abstract The image of the heroic adventurer, who shot big game or traveled remote regions of the earth, populated the British Empire’s exploration and hunting narratives. Scholars have done much to deconstruct this image but have so far barely touched on the emotional dimensions...
View articletitled, Heroic Fear: Emotions, Masculinity, and Dangerous Nature in British Colonial Adventure <span class="search-highlight">Narratives</span>
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 1–40.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Susanna Lidström; Simon West; Tania Katzschner; M. Isabel Pérez-Ramos; Hedley Twidle Abstract Environmental narratives have become an increasingly important area of study in the environmental humanities. Rob Nixon has drawn attention to the difficulties of representing the complex processes...
View articletitled, Invasive <span class="search-highlight">Narratives</span> and the Inverse of Slow Violence: Alien Species in Science and Society
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 43–70.
Published: 01 May 2013
.... Memory and narrativity are pertinent to the at times conflicting stories and reminiscences from archival and contemporary sources. Ultimately, accounts of “flute lyrebirds” speak to how meaning evolves in the tensions, boundaries, and interplay between knowledge and imagination. We conclude...
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in Oil as Solution to the Problems of Oil: The American Petroleum Institute and the Petromodern Paradox
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Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 4. “In 100 years, machines have taken over most of our heavy work”: API’s narrative of progress ( Petroleum in Our Age of Science 1951: 2). Author’s collection; image is in the public domain.
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Published: 01 May 2019
Figure 1. Can writing function as a productive hormone disruptor within larger cultural narrative sequences? This is my urine. Its metabolites are messages.
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 83–103.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Linda Shenk; Kristie J. Franz; William J. Gutowski, Jr. Abstract Increasingly, researchers share climate information as narratives to support decision-making and public action. In these contexts, however, scientists remain the focal storytellers. This article offers our methodology for researchers...
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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 (2018) 10 (1): 171–186.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., which alternate with a minimalist interface: a grid populated with dots signifying other animals and plants living in Banff. This essay argues that Bear 71 uses two strategies to reframe the data-driven discourse of wildlife management. First, the anthropomorphized narrative of Bear 71 reframes wildlife...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 149–155.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Tom Greaves Abstract I offer a response and counter argument to J. Baird Callicott's “Provocations” piece in Environmental Humanities, volume 2. I argue that the historical narrative that Callicott derives from Aristotle regarding the development of philosophical thought from natural philosophy...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 370–387.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Zachary Baynham-Herd Abstract Endangered species are not simply revealed but are presented . This process of presentation is shaped by conservation discourses that reflect how actors understand, categorize, and imagine nonhuman life. Such discourses combine to produce narratives of endangerment...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 224–244.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., the interdisciplinary and multimedia art project “Dear Climate” (2012–ongoing) by Una Chaudhuri, Oliver Kellhammer, and Marina Zurkow rewrites familiar narratives of crisis, shifting species suicide notes toward irony and unconventional techniques of hope. In analyzing these performative species suicide notes...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 21–44.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Heather Houser Abstract Petrochemical America , an art book and atlas cocreated by photographer Richard Misrach and landscape architect Kate Orff, is a rejoinder to commonplaces about oil’s invisibility and evasion of representation. The book’s visualizations produce a narrative atlas that depicts...
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View articletitled, Drawing the Line on Oil in Petrochemical America
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 109–127.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of fiction and screen texts from the nineteenth century to the present, viruses feature prominently. The texts fall into two categories: narratives in which Antarctica is the sole source of safety in a pandemic-ravaged world and those in which a virus (or another form of contagion) is discovered within...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 235–250.
Published: 01 November 2023
... scientific narratives but has been central to the development of modern theories of the earth. The article traces the roots of that history in colonial Indonesia through debates between geologists, Theosophists, and orientalists, and in colonial endeavors to suppress Javanese Islam through new geological...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 190–202.
Published: 01 March 2025
... archive, where users can inhabit and explore the region’s multispecies landscape in the aftermath of caribou extirpation through trail camera footage, nonfiction narrative, and georeferenced oral history videos of North Idaho community members narrating mountain caribou encounters. This article begins...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 203–216.
Published: 01 May 2014
... that is the focus of the narrative and gives the book its title. Timothy Morton has argued that because we live in the Anthropocene we can no longer understand history as exclusively human. Pendell's “Chronicle of the Collapse” suggests that the same is true for storytelling, offering readers the story...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 77–100.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., imagology, discourse and brand analysis used to highlight key narratives in images and written sources. The article discusses how ideas of purity are used in branding strategies and what they mean in Iceland today e.g. as a part of the emerging regional consciousness of ‘Arctic Iceland.’ The current...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 20–39.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of the Stalinist state that could have created the totalitarian service dog: institutions that planned the distribution, raising, and breeding of family dogs for military service. Our narrative begins with a recently discovered genealogical document, issued to a German Shepherd bred by plan and born during...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 123–140.
Published: 01 May 2012
... placed affect at the very centre of contemporary narratives that call for pro-environmental beliefs and behaviours. A critical public-feelings framework is used to explore these issues and trace their passage from the private and intimate, where they risk remaining denuded of agency, and into the public...
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