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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 83–103.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and communities to share narratives with each other and then to engage in collaborative storytelling. At the center of this work is how the humanities embrace the importance of narratives having gapsnarrative lacunae into which individuals can insert their experiences, needs, and values. Our storytelling...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 37–56.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Eben Kirksey; Dehlia Hannah; Charlie Lotterman; Lisa Jean Moore Abstract There is an appreciable distance between the biochemistry of being pregnant and the experience of recognizing oneself as pregnant—a speculative gap that technology can serve to narrow or widen depending on how one chooses...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 May 2014
... creates a kind of spectral echo (in Derrida's sense of a moment that is both “repetition and first time”) 18 which gives expression to what James Hatley has called a “death narrative,” an enfolding of diachronic and synchronous time in which inter-generational responsibilities are realised. 19...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 201–210.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of the writer and reader—is profoundly destabilizing when found in Western narratives. It isn’t just a matter of the narrative becoming confusing; it’s an existential threat to our ontological concepts (If there is no gap between us and our stories, then what are we?). That’s not to say that the line...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 55–75.
Published: 01 May 2014
... “rhetorical scheme” 72 embedded in the film's trajectory beyond its particular narrative elements of characters and mise-en-scène. In this, the disjunctive relation between the images presented and Holly's voiceover narration produces a gap and interruption of narrative teleology that calls for viewers...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 145–161.
Published: 01 March 2022
... from assumptions of vulnerability and rethinking their agency through the mediation of narrative form. As fiction imagines scenarios shaped, more or less realistically, by climate change, children reject adults’ nostalgic longing for the preapocalyptic world and cultivate adaptation and acceptance...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 19–35.
Published: 01 March 2024
... to maintain the idea that it is a distinct entity, distinct because of the gap between it and the beheld world. Only by being bounded can it possess technologies of mastery such as property rights. For Eva Hayward, closing this gap by merging seeing with touching is particularly important. 16 In her queer...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 766–783.
Published: 01 November 2024
... inhere in autonomy not quite removed by the plantation. Despite the significant dispossessory tactics of the plantation, Batek are adept at navigating—through both refusal and acquiescence—the gaps in its ability to take “life under control.” 48 Such enactments of autonomy do not easily fit...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 414–432.
Published: 01 November 2021
.... Interrogating Kantian aesthetic theory as well as some aesthetic discourse on the Anthropocene we investigate the assumption that this condition is characterized by a gap between phenomenal experience and an incommensurability of anthropocenic processes. In section two we then focus on selected works by artist...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 162–180.
Published: 01 July 2023
... in a conjectural future, but a critical expansion of its transitive acts of worlding. This is made feasible by its insistence on upholding an Indigenous Australian ontological reality as the structuring provision for its narratives—one that has long stressed its dissonance from dominant Western genres of thinking...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 191–202.
Published: 01 May 2016
... is still too shady for most of the little ones to grow ( figure 1 ). Some very lucky plants and a few other sidekicks photosynthesised a bit more sunlight than their siblings because of a surprising gap in the foliage of one of the trees on the western side of the yard. Thus, the ones with almost...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 457–474.
Published: 01 July 2022
... in Medaas et al., “Minding the Gaps in Fish Welfare,” a sense of morality and empathetic concern is rhetorically evoked in the teaching material in the welfare courses. The take-home message is that animal suffering is unacceptable, and anyone who appears to be indifferent about inflicting pain in animals...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 101–123.
Published: 01 May 2014
... not analyze how the frames enable or hinder specific forms of climate governance, though we agree that the news media can substantially influence these frames. Geoengineering is a narrative that is constantly framed and reframed, and according to Rayner, there are no strong scientific claims to hide...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 203–218.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of moving outside it. 20 Long before the emergence of desktop prospecting, settler narratives linking extraction to homemaking were animated by imagined threats of loss. Many early settlers across North America were motivated by nostalgia for property they believed their European ancestors had lost...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 473–500.
Published: 01 November 2018
... with relevant insights from ecocriticism, environmental communication, and environmental psychology. This research charts a path for what I call empirical ecocriticism : an empirically grounded, interdisciplinary approach to environmental narrative. Climate fiction might be considered significant...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 233–260.
Published: 01 May 2014
... them the “inventor-discloser” and “deconstructor-critic” roles. But they are symptomatic of something many environmental humanists wish to rectify. I'm talking about the oft-lamented “gap” between what humanistic scholars do and what is thought, said and enacted in the “real world” of politics...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 245–263.
Published: 01 May 2021
... than an ally, a resource rather than a relative. It is at the intersection of these heterogeneities that lake memory has come to reside. Lakes do not have a single being; instead, they consist of accreted layers, centuries upon centuries of sedimented narratives. Water, mud, flora, fauna: a lake...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 398–417.
Published: 01 November 2017
... argues, construct the Amazon as a global commons. While the “lungs of the world” narrative is conceptually anti-extractivist—Davidov contends—it does legitimate to a degree a different contemporary form of extraction in the Amazon: that of bioprospecting. 45 The Antarctic is often still considered...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 40–59.
Published: 01 May 2017
... for land that led colonists and their descendants to want to push the shoreline out into the sea. As my inquiry deepens, other temporalities come into view alongside this colonial narrative. Formed around 300 million years ago in the Sydney area, the sandstone that was used to construct the seawall...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 590–602.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Tessa Laird; Andrew Goodman Abstract How and why is pattern undervalued in Western thought? Pattern’s narrative is checkered: historically banned from respectable clothing for its transgressive power; in the sciences relegated to survivalist function; in the arts tamed as decoration. This article...