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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 39–61.
Published: 01 July 2023
...). soil Fukushima nuclear disaster multispecies temporality Under a blue sky, rice seedlings were flourishing in water drawn from the nearby Mano River. Between the sky and the paddies lies the satoyama forest, where Sugiyama had often harvested wood for firewood and foraged for seasonal...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 275–280.
Published: 01 May 2021
... by obligation, “but energized by the incompleteness of speculation.” 30 The weird opens the possibility —not necessity—of hope. Nature was weird already, but in the aftermath of catastrophes like the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, new weirds flourish, demanding of the environmental humanities new kinds...
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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 (2016) 7 (1): 89–105.
Published: 01 May 2016
... program: nature, if left to its own devices, can survive nuclear disaster. Amazingly, this narrative transforms Hanford—the most toxic nuclear site in North America—into an environmental success story. The solution to nuclear contamination, it seems, is to simply let nature be. Of course...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 310–329.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of a social, collective experience of trauma, in which the very anticipation of the (far future) legacy of one’s actions, whether from accidents, leakages, or other disasters performs a kind of social haunting. We could say that the trauma of the nuclear accident, understood as a “wound” that societies...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 280–301.
Published: 01 November 2019
... horror of sudden disaster, but what Shannon Cram calls “the slow violence of environmental contamination.” 44 Nicholson’s poem uses the language of biological hazards to counter the delusional rhetoric of containment and isolation associated with nuclear energy. Terms such as biological shield...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 118–141.
Published: 01 March 2024
... systems, see Pritchard, Confluence ; Pritchard, “Envirotechnical Disaster.” 42. “Rheinsberg Nuclear Power Plant.” 41. Casper, Lake Stechlin , v, 21 ; quotation from v. 40. Casper, Lake Stechlin , v, 482 ; “Rheinsberg Nuclear Power Plant,” Atlas Obscura , https...
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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 (2018) 10 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 May 2018
... debut novel The Island Will Sink (2016)—the affects of climate catastrophe will be traced as they take differing aesthetic forms in the imaginary of the global north: the desert, the flood, the mediated disaster. 9 These forms show the varied ways in which the future marks the present, not simply...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 264–271.
Published: 01 May 2021
... with the Anthropocene. 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...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 129–144.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and interspecies relations. The hunter and the game enter into a precarious dimension of ecological as well as cultural disaster. The proliferation of nuclear weaponry as well as the ability to manipulate viral diseases subject both hunter and game to a biopolitical framework and expose them to the possibility...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 147–167.
Published: 01 May 2013
... with considerable sapienza was proffered in the august surroundings of the Royal Society on 17 January 2007. The Society was playing host to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists who 60 years earlier had visualised a Doomsday Clock to symbolise the threat to human survival from nuclear weapons. Back in 1991...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 203–217.
Published: 01 May 2016
... reimaginings of this storied Japanese image often remark upon the dangerous, damaged state of the contemporary ocean. Such commentaries sometimes refer directly to the 2011 tsunami and to its associated Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster. But adaptations of Hokusai's Wave these days also increasingly point...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 181–203.
Published: 01 November 2017
... and climate-focused causalities. The earliest ice core studies in the 1950s demonstrated the worldwide impact of certain human actions, such as nuclear weapons testing. While glaciologists found they could analyze the tritium (the radioactive isotope of hydrogen) in ice to date snow accumulations...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 145–161.
Published: 01 March 2022
... to cope with the aftermath of a major disaster, perhaps linked to nuclear fallout. Only in Cook’s The New Wilderness is the ecological crisis staged straightforwardly: the protagonists are involved in a scientific experiment on human survival in the last remaining wilderness, while cities groan under...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 203–218.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., particularly in Canada and other settler states that have long dominated global mining. Since the mid-twentieth century, the proliferation of computer models among geologists and mining engineers has radically changed how practitioners establish a feeling for underground structures. 11 As with nuclear...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 402–426.
Published: 01 November 2019
... the term sacrifice zones from Valerie Kuletz, who, in The Tainted Desert (1998), coined the phrase “geographies of sacrifice” to describe the disproportionate effects of Cold War–era nuclear testing and hazardous-waste disposal on indigenous communities in the southwestern United States. For government...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 441–459.
Published: 01 July 2024
... global warming. . . . Global warming reaches into ‘my world’ and forces me to use LEDs instead of bulbs with filaments.” 13 In turn, we see this awareness reflected in the cultural products of our time: whether it be in literature, film, or television, environmental disaster seems to be everywhere...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 May 2013
...: The Initial Intervention and Lasting Legacy of Hans and Franz .” The Journal of Popular Culture , 45 ( 2012 ): 241 – 263 . Andersson N. “ Framtidsbilen ger industrin tändning .” NyTeknik . 11 December , 2002 . Anshelm Jonas . “ Among Demons and Wizards: The Nuclear Discourse...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 213–225.
Published: 01 May 2018
... strontium-90 isotopes in their teeth then those born earlier. The half-life of depleted uranium (U-238) is around 4.5 billion years, roughly the same as the age of the Earth, while that of the plutonium in Chernobyl’s nuclear reactor is 240,000 years. Such timescales resist the imagination, but they exist...
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