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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 301–322.
Published: 01 November 2021
... BY-NC-ND 4.0). animal studies invasive species cultural history environmental history narrative studies On March 6, 1890, a wealthy socialite named Eugene Schieffelin released one hundred common starlings ( Sturnus vulgaris ) into Central Park in New York City. The release was part...
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Invasive Narratives and the Inverse of Slow Violence: Alien Species in Science and Society
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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...
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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): 20–39.
Published: 01 May 2018
... the World War II Leningrad Blockade. Reading this document together with service-dog manuals, Soviet physiological studies, archival military documents, and autobiographical narratives, we unravel the history of Leningrad’s early Soviet military-service dog husbandry program. This program, we argue, relied...
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Narrating Extinctions for Survivance: An Indigenous Rice-Human Perspective from Mao Chenyu’s Films
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 331–350.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Liu Mankun Abstract This article navigates the obligatory relationship between extinction narratives and future imaginaries through the lens of an artist’s films. Taking Chinese artist Mao Chenyu’s works as case studies, the first part examines the notion of extinction that his video essay Becoming...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 March 2024
... histories, this article instead shows that failed commodity crops like Ficus elastica , locally known as Jri Bamon in Meghalaya, India, exhibited recalcitrance to a range of state and scientific regimes. In an argument that disrupts the European-centered narrative about the triumphant expansion of knowledge...
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Many Nights: Poetry and Time Lapse of the Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 124–141.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Teresa Shewry Abstract This essay builds on environmental humanistic scholarship about the night in a study of arts associated with the Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve, a lighting-regulated locale in Aotearoa / New Zealand, that is part of an international network of places intended...
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Plotting a New Course for Environmental Humanities: Provision Grounds, Race, and the Future
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 271–290.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Alex A. Moulton Abstract This article suggests that the notion of “the plot” has methodological and epistemological value for the environmental humanities. Conceptualized in the work of Sylvia Wynter, the plot—as material site and narrative mode crucial to the novel form—offers a heuristic...
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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...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 69–93.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Andrew Mark Abstract This paper describes Bob Wiseman's allegorical piece, Uranium, arguing that it accesses emotion to alter the consciousness of percipients. Audiences respond with unusual intensity to Uranium's tragic environmental narrative. By using puppet theatre, film, comedy, and song...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 37–56.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of a deadly fungal disease. Xenopus became linked to an out-of-Africa hypothesis of disease emergence that repeated tired colonial tropes about the “diseased continent.” 8 While studying how this outbreak narrative predictably stigmatized individuals, populations, locales, and lifestyles, we became...
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Minding the Gaps: How Humanists, Climate Scientists, and Communities Can Become Collaborating Storytellers
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 83–103.
Published: 01 November 2023
... – 335 . https://doi.org/10.5194/hessd-12-8289-2015 . Gerrig Richard J. “ Readers’ Experiences of Narrative Gaps .” Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies 2 ( 2010 ): 19 – 37 . Hastrup Kirsten . “ Scales of Attention in Fieldwork: Global Connections and Local Concerns...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 191–202.
Published: 01 May 2016
... There are many important works that should be considered in these discourses. A good point of departure for the established field of feminist narrative studies is Laura Mulvey's famous essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” Screen 16, no. 3, Autumn (1975): 6-18 and Nancy K. Miller's book The Heroine's...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 131–157.
Published: 01 May 2015
.... Affect theory connects scholarship on the material—the body and its processes—with the environmental and the social in ways that remind us that very little communication is verbal, textual, or narrative. Studying affect provides a new vocabulary for describing other forms of communication and reveals new...
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Child Minds at the End of the World
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 145–161.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., there is certainly more econarratological and ecocritical work to do by studying formal strategies in environmental narratives for and also by younger audiences. 39 While working on this project the author received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 564–570.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., and digital activists. 4 He asks, “How can we convert into image and narrative the disasters that are slow moving . . . ? How can we turn the long emergencies of slow violence into stories dramatic enough to rouse public sentiment?” 5 Implied in the question is a distinction. Sometimes our activism...
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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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Heroic Fear: Emotions, Masculinity, and Dangerous Nature in British Colonial Adventure Narratives
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 162–182.
Published: 01 March 2024
... imperialism seemed to circumscribe the actual scope for heroic individualism, making escapism through adventure narratives all the more appealing. 20 The end of this article’s period, the 1940s, saw the beginning of decolonization in Britain’s tropical colonies. This is mainly a study...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 372–390.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of Eurocentric narratives.” Heather Davis and Zoe Todd (Métis/otipemisiwak) argue the Anthropocene needs to be linked with colonization to draw “attention to the violence at its core.” 10 Kathryn Yusoff agrees, noting that colonized lands became spaces to write this violence onto the bodies of people of color...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 242–246.
Published: 01 May 2019
... narratives of nature-culture trauma, which have been, Kafer argues, taboo within disability studies. 14 Patsavas, too, argues for attending to psychic and physical pain, a “queercrip understanding of pain as a fluid, relational . . . and leaky experience that flows through, across, and between always...
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