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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 280–301.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of Seascale on the Cumbria coast in the UK. Through an analysis of cultural representations, we show the construction of Seascale as a seaside resort in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the rapid and irrevocable sinking of its cultural value since the commissioning of the nuclear power...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 89–105.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Shannon Cram Abstract Nuclear weapons production has created a unique geography of irradiated open space in the United States. In recent years, many of these landscapes have been re-classified as national wildlife refuges in an attempt to transform the nation's atomic sacrifice zones into spaces...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 129–144.
Published: 01 March 2022
... in nuclear energy. The use of myxomatosis as a bioweapon and the creation of nuclear energy capable of radioactive pollution are also at the core of Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura’s La caza ( The Hunt , 1966). This article argues that The Hunt provides an important examination on extinction and biopolitics...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 224–244.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Kristen Cardon Abstract This article tracks the history of species suicide , a phrase that originally referred to a potential nuclear holocaust but is now increasingly cited in Anthropocene discourses to account for continued carbon emissions in the face of catastrophic climate change. With its...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 39–61.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Mankei Tam Abstract This article explores soil and the multiple pathways it has provided for the coconstitution of forms of life that might be possible following the Fukushima nuclear fallout. In Iitate, a former evacuation zone where radiation still lingers, farmers and concerned citizens deploy...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 152–173.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Sasha Litvintseva Abstract Asbestos is a fibrous mineral. Airborne asbestos—similar to nuclear radiation and chemical atmospheric pollutants—is invisible to the naked eye, and living and breathing alongside it has deferred toxic effects on human bodies. The toxicity of asbestos operates...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 310–329.
Published: 01 May 2018
... people, North Western Australia, on whose land the uranium used in the Fukushima nuclear plant was mined—an act that was done without the Mirrar people’s consent. 48. Van Wyck, Highway of the Atom , 47. 49. Ibid. 50. Derrida, “Composing Circumfession,” 25. 51. Arendt, Human...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 512–528.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). ecocriticism hope critique nuclear disaster Chornobyl Exclusion Zone The Chornobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) has, in the last decades, become a symbol of the simultaneous coexistence of environmental hope and harm. 1 Maybe most prominently, British...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 118–141.
Published: 01 March 2024
... the Albert National Park .” Environmental History 22 , no. 3 ( 2017 ): 404 – 32 . DeLoughrey Elizabeth . “ The Myth of Isolates: Ecosystem Ecologies in the Nuclear Pacific .” Cultural Geographies 20 , no. 2 ( 2012 ): 167 – 84 . Demuth Bathsheba . Floating Coast...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 528–531.
Published: 01 November 2018
... , no. 2 ( 2016 ): 162 – 87 . doi.org/10.14506/ca31.2.02 . Masco Joseph . Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2006 . Nash Linda Lorraine . Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 145–158.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and Spain and as far north as Germany, covering fields and roofs with a thin but pervasive layer of nuclear dust. 1 Originating in the Sahara Desert, the storm carried its sixty-year-old intercontinental payload across the Mediterranean from nuclear weapons tests conducted in the French-colonized...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 275–280.
Published: 01 May 2021
... , 6 . 8. Fisher, Weird and the Eerie . 9. Bradić, “Weird Sciences and the Sciences of the Weird.” 10. The Red Forest is an area of forest near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and is the most contaminated part of the zone. 11. Skunk et al., “Self-Replicating...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 19–35.
Published: 01 March 2024
... . “ The Myth of Isolates: Ecosystem Ecologies in the Nuclear Pacific .” Cultural Geographies 20 , no. 2 ( 2013 ): 167 – 84 . Diaz Vincent M. , and Kauanui Kēulani . “ Native Pacific Cultural Studies on the Edge .” Contemporary Pacific 13 , no. 2 ( 2001 ): 315 – 42 . Freud...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 235–250.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Acceleration was rudimentary. Umbgrove, though, was familiar with conversations about the Psychozoic and related discussions among geologists of an “age of man” that prefigured the Anthropocene debate. Hess’s vision of planetary history, too, was marked by the long shadow of nuclear war. However, rather than...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 March 2023
... nuclear plants and coal strip mines into western areas largely inhabited by ranchers, agriculturalists, and Native Americans. Coal and nuclear companies took their industrial technologies to states like Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming, where ranchers, Native Americans, and environmentalists discovered...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 147–167.
Published: 01 May 2013
... sources of fresh water, food and oil on the planet, the chances of increasingly frenzied, social Darwinian conflict tipping over into a spasm of universal self-destruction, the resort to nuclear weapons included, are entirely plausible. If this happens it will not be climate change per se which...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 245–254.
Published: 01 May 2016
... and nuclear fusion), technological policy shifts (e.g. nuclear power), technological fixes (e.g. carbon capture and storage), and technological efficiency gains (e.g. decarbonization transitions) is strongly advised. On the other hand, the mass extinction of life forms that the human enterprise has set...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 359–377.
Published: 01 November 2017
... In the 1950s, at the behest of the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), the brothers conducted a survey of a coral reef in Enewetok Atoll, one of several sites in the South Pacific where the AEC was executing its ongoing nuclear test program. 32 Considered against the backdrop of the crippling devastation...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 454–455.
Published: 01 November 2017
... discoveries and predictions based on mathematics, physics, and biology. One of the earliest contributions to the anthropology of space was the volume Interstellar Migration and the Human Experience (1985). Writing in the heat of the Cold War, under threat of nuclear war, Ben R. Finney, Eric M. Jones...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 264–271.
Published: 01 May 2021
.... The impact of certain humans on the planet, we are told—our transformation of the soil, the mass extinctions we have precipitated, our nuclear waste burial—will be forever traceable in the geological record. The Dunwich skeletons come to haunt us from a different era, and yet I can’t help but feel...
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