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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 181–194.
Published: 01 July 2023
..., scholars in the environmental humanities are currently facing a difficult choice: should we opt for an “old” or a “new” materialism? This essay argues that this confrontation between new materialism and eco-Marxism pivots not on ontological differences, as is often assumed, but on diverging attitudes...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 62–84.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Fiona R. Cameron; Ben Dibley; David S. Ellsworth Abstract Historical, cultural, and technological collections are routinely put to work to illustrate narratives of progress, history, and identity. They can also convey new stories that articulate how cultural objects might serve as material...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 261–276.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., environmental justice, and new materialism. Bringing the fruits of such efforts to a wider audience will require environmental humanities scholars to experiment with new ways of organizing and disseminating knowledge. Copyright: © the authors 2014 2014 This is an open access article distributed under...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 149–171.
Published: 01 November 2016
... things. Several scholars and artists, many of whom would advocate new materialisms, have attempted to recapture this liveliness. Drawing upon these developments, we use the notion of “geosocialities” (the commingling of the geologic and the social and the sensibilities involved) to facilitate...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 162–181.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... Drawing on new materialism and multispecies studies, the article argues that these two picture books exemplify the possibilities inherent in children’s literature of imaging encounters with multispecies communities and apprehending the dynamic agencies of the material world. With reference to the real...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 May 2020
... the instantaneously mediated and circulated chemical dust explosions in Kunshan and Tianjin in 2014–15 as eco-media events —that is, spectacular and ephemeral moments in which the material processes of digital production link the old forms of resource extraction with our new lives of electronic gadgetry and media...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 136–158.
Published: 01 May 2021
... erase? To further examine the workings of waste and toxicity as they shift from rhetorical framework to material locale, Scappettone grounds her salvage poetics in another New York waste site: Fresh Kills on Staten Island. Fresh Kills originally opened in 1948 as a temporary landfill site...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 19–35.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., and the African World . New York : New York University Press , 2022 . TallBear Kim . “ Beyond the Life/Not-Life Binary: A Feminist-Indigenous Reading of Cryopreservation, Interspecies Thinking, and the New Materialism .” In Cryopolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting World , edited by Radin Joanna...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 554–570.
Published: 01 November 2024
... with Donna Haraway’s conception of compost as a form of sympoeisis, “becoming together”? 60 Worms, like fungi, are decomposers of organic material that break down the plantation into its constituent parts so that they might be reorganized into new forms. What if “putrefaction” were a mark of possibility...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 501–527.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Jennifer Mae Hamilton; Astrida Neimanis Abstract Composting is a material labor whereby old scraps are transformed—through practices of care and attention—into nutrient-rich new soil. In this provocation, we develop “composting” as a material metaphor to tell a particular story about...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 247–279.
Published: 01 November 2019
... to be high enough, so that deer are not able to intrude into the airfield; of course, the material has to be stable enough to resist chewing, and the structure has to be fine-meshed to avoid small animals slipping through. The new high-tech fence also signals the exact location of where the fence has been...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 227–249.
Published: 01 May 2020
... into economic resources. By proposing a new conceptualization of labor as a material process of transformation oriented toward the generation of capital value, the author establishes a dialogue between hitherto separate literatures on the making of economic resources and on nonhuman labor. This approach...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 250–266.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Germain Meulemans Abstract This article examines the rise of urban soils as a topic of scientific inquiry and ecological engineering in France, and questions how new framings of soil as a material that can be designed reconfigure relationships between urban life and soils in a context of fast...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 145–158.
Published: 01 November 2023
... materialized, over several centuries, in the earthly conditions of life itself; and (b) represents a critical potential for creating new ways to live on earth through the practical exploration of geosocial relations. We highlight three modes of earth praxis. Inhuman territorializations calls attention...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 155–170.
Published: 01 May 2014
... generated by the Apollo Space missions as the characteristic form of planetary mediation during the late twentieth century, and argue that our current emergence into a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, calls for radically different representational strategies. Whole Earth images draw their strength...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 145–161.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Cook’s The New Wilderness —that evoke a child’s experience of societal collapse in the wake of a catastrophic event. Diverse meanings come to the fore as these novels outline, through child focalization, the relevance of bodily experience, materiality, and reenchantment vis-à-vis the climate crisis...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 460–477.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Arthur Rose Abstract Asbestos has long been a staple lesson for the precautionary principle. As a toxic material, it is often something people hope not to encounter. But before this, it often appeared as a substance of hope, carrying the promise of safety and economic rewards. This article uses...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 1–18.
Published: 01 July 2023
... that if weather patterns continue to change as rapidly, some clone types will not do so well in the future. Growing from seed, he makes available the genetic material that could be useful for future generations of clones. New plants for new weather patterns. Through his weather-adapted seeds, he makes use...
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Seeing the Anthropocene through Montage: John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea and Elizabeth Price’s BERLINWAL
Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 530–553.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Bergit Arends Abstract Environmental changes and the age of the Anthropocene demand new ways of seeing. This article contends that montage serves both as form and as argument in representing the modern Western experience of human-nature relations in the supposed Anthropocene. It suggests...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 371–384.
Published: 01 July 2024
... weird way, to speak to us. [email protected] © 2024 Randy Laist 2024 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). plant studies Cleve Backster parapsychology pseudoscience new materialism Tolkien’s Ents, Swamp...
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