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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Helen M. Rozwadowski Abstract Futurists have recognized the ocean’s depths as resembling space in its promise as a setting for human success, survival, or redemption. Imagined futures of the ocean have been intertwined with reflections on human evolution and what it means to be human. In 1962...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 680–691.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Pandora Syperek; Sarah Wade Abstract Oceans have proliferated in artworks and exhibitions in recent years, coinciding with a surge of scholarship in the blue humanities and critical ocean studies. However, despite the extensive art history of the sea, artistic and curatorial knowledge has been...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 19–35.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Emma Blackett Abstract This article discusses the settler-colonial femininity at work in two films that foreground the Pacific Ocean, Blue Crush (John Stockwell, 2002) and The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993). With these film readings it offers a critique of the feminist new materialist turn toward water...
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Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 8. Bonnie Monteleone, Plastic Ocean: In Honor of Captain Charles Moore, from the What Goes Around Comes Around collection, 2011, trash. Copyright Bonnie Monteleone. Reproduced with Permission.
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 57–77.
Published: 01 May 2013
... on the natural history of the oceans, which helped establish her as a talented and trustworthy translator of scientific concepts into literary prose. This essay builds upon that idea, showing how Carson's The Sea Around Us (1951) and The Edge of the Sea (1955) not only shaped public understandings of ocean...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 132–166.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Elizabeth DeLoughrey; Tatiana Flores Abstract Recent scholarship in the blue humanities, or critical ocean studies, has turned to the mutable relationship between human bodies and the ocean, shifting from depictions of a seascape across which human bodies attain agency to considering the experience...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 196–214.
Published: 01 November 2016
... sophisticated echolocation “clicks,” and that harness the ocean’s complex acoustic waveguide to detect signals thousands of miles away. Other scholars have touched on the navy’s legacy in cetology (whale science), but none have made it their object of study. Our article places this relationship at the center...
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Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 7. Chris Jordan, Gyre, 2009. Depicts 2.4 million pieces of plastic, equal to the estimated number of pounds of plastic pollution that enter the world's oceans every hour. All of the plastic in this image was collected from the Pacific Ocean. Copyright Chris Jordan. Reproduced
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 29–48.
Published: 01 March 2022
...L. D. Mattson; Jeremy Gordon Abstract Reimagining human-nature relationships in the climate change era conjures mutants, creatures from the deep that help surface modes of becoming for a drenched world of rising tides, plastic oceans, and soaked cities. Re-imaging deep, embodied relations...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 169–190.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Alexander R. D. Zahara; Myra J. Hird Abstract As capitalism's unintended, and often unacknowledged, fallout, humans have developed sophisticated technologies to squirrel away our discards: waste is buried, burned, gasified, thrown into the ocean, and otherwise kept out-of-sight and out-of-mind...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 454–474.
Published: 01 November 2020
... blue humanities oceans environmental ethics multispecies In an influential article for The Scientific American , “The Last of the Great Whales,” published in 1966, conservationist Scott McVay joined the chorus of concern about the future of great whales. He wrote that “only sharply reduced...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 173–178.
Published: 01 May 2020
... insights emerged from a one-day workshop at Clovelly Beach in Sydney, Australia, on land and in the water, where we shared our perspectives and practices in researching ocean environments. Our collaboration is an experiment in multidisciplinary practice-based inquiry, where differences and tensions need...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 203–217.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Figure 8. Bonnie Monteleone, Plastic Ocean: In Honor of Captain Charles Moore, from the What Goes Around Comes Around collection, 2011, trash. Copyright Bonnie Monteleone. Reproduced with Permission. ...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2024
... at the other end of the ocean, the color blue appealed to the colonial imaginary and drew ships across the seas to mine blue pigment from Afghan rocks and raise indigo plantations on stolen land, with stolen labor. Looking at the material history of indigo and several other blue colonialisms, this essay...
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in “Bringing Humanity Full Circle Back into the Sea”: Homo aquaticus , Evolution, and the Ocean
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 3. A Polynesian pearl diver working underwater on a coral reef in Tongareva, French Polynesia. Photo is part of the Pearl Divers Group diorama in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life, American Museum of Natural History Library, Image # ptc-459.
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 235–250.
Published: 01 November 2023
... the clouds, and remove the oceans to “gaze directly on the rocky crust of the globe thus laid bare.” 10 His aim was to present the shape of the continents and the ocean in order to theorize how those structures came to be. The poetic in Suess’s work was a literary device that transformed the materiality...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 398–417.
Published: 01 November 2017
...,” 16. 34. See Franklin, “Ethical Biocapital.” 35. Franklin and Lock, “Animation and Cessation,” 8. 36. Helmreich, Alien Ocean , 108. See also Baker, “Biosecurity.” 37. Williams and Jackson, “Novel Climates,” 475. 38. Paxson and Helmreich, “Perils and Promises,” 166...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 85–102.
Published: 01 May 2012
...-saturated aesthetic of “these cliffs”? Although this separation of viewer from viewed landscape has never been complete or absolute, it is one that seems even less tenable in the Anthropocene. “El Niño Orgonon” uses another form of “geological syntax,” casting the ocean in an agential role in relation...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 162–181.
Published: 01 March 2022
... life, Erin needs to help the adults around her to see what she sees. Sarah Donaldson writes: “The gentle environmental message takes on a kind of magic in Todd-Stanton’s pictures of Erin suspended in the ocean among incandescent jellyfish or facing down a monstrous, weaponized fishing fleet...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 245–254.
Published: 01 May 2016
... losses and there seems so little hope for what remains. What makes no-limits to human growth true is that the zoomass of wild vertebrates has become “vanishingly small” in comparison to the combined weight of humans and domestic animals, while the once enormous abundance of living beings in the ocean...
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