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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 385–402.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Lukas Becker Abstract The omnipresence of petroleum makes it an essential part of a history of the modern world. However, this ubiquity also presents a challenge as to which archival materials historians should use to tell this story. By using material gathered during fieldwork in the Colombian oil...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 45–65.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Kyle Conway; Manjulika E. Robertson Abstract In North America, one factor shaping petromodernity is the idea that oil offers a solution to the very problems it causes. This article examines that paradox, focusing on the 1950s. It analyzes a set of pamphlets from the Petroleum Industry School...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 85–104.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Michael E. Staub Abstract This article seeks to sidestep the dilemma of restricted access to oil company archives through a close examination of a heretofore underutilized source base: the fossil fuel industry’s own trade journals and magazines. These oil and gas industry trade publications have...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 421–446.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Sophie Chao Abstract The palm oil sector is widely associated with the destruction of the environment in the pursuit of profit. Drawing from fieldwork in an oil palm concession in Riau, Sumatra, I highlight a heretofore unexplored dimension of the agribusiness nexus—the affective attachments...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 21–44.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Heather Houser Abstract Petrochemical America , an art book and atlas cocreated by photographer Richard Misrach and landscape architect Kate Orff, is a rejoinder to commonplaces about oil’s invisibility and evasion of representation. The book’s visualizations produce a narrative atlas that depicts...
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 1. A field of plastic boxes storing shale oil samples in Göynük. Photograph by the author. More
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 2. Oil shale samples waiting for collection. Photograph by the author. More
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Published: 01 November 2018
Figure 3. “The model offspring”: tenera variety oil palm fruit. Credit: Sophie Chao More
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Published: 01 May 2016
Jacopo da Ponte, called Bassano, Sacrifice of Isaac, 1574-75, oil on canvas, 10 5/16 × 13 1/4 in. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 1999 (photo by Rick Hall). Reproduced with permission . More
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 495–511.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Natascha de Vasconcellos Otoya Abstract Mr. João de Deus, an elderly Afro-Brazilian man, worked on the ground and contributed to the beginning of the modern Brazilian oil industry. His is a story of environmental hope and personal resilience with roots in the deep past and outcomes that reverberate...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 766–783.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Alice Rudge Abstract Oil palm plantations often produce figurations of heroism and villainy attributed to human and nonhuman actors. Yet these categories may mask the subtleties of local experiences. Indigenous Batek people in Malaysia highly value the autonomy of both plants and people...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 433–440.
Published: 01 July 2024
... established processes in radically different ways rather than wishing to achieve a predefined outcome, while at the same time remaining mindful of the polluted status quo. Contributions in this special section are situated across the entire troubled planet, from Chernobyl’s exclusion zone to Brazilian oil...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 174–189.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Figure 1. A field of plastic boxes storing shale oil samples in Göynük. Photograph by the author. ...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 478–494.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Siobhan Angus; Warren Cariou Abstract This two-part essay turns to the landscapes of bitumen mining in the Athabasca tar sands in western Canada. Despite the environmental costs of the tar sands mining process, the Canadian state remains invested in oil extraction in the tar sands. Starting from...
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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 (2014) 5 (1): 295–300.
Published: 01 May 2014
...—was first exhibited in the months before Hurricane Katrina. This piece contained aesthetic premonitions of the floating debris that were omnipresent after the storm. Coated in a black patina, a dark glossy finish like crude oil, this artwork also prefigured the oil flood that came with the Deepwater Horizon...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 564–570.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of dolphins in previously oil-affected areas were still diseased. Eight billion oysters died in the spill, and none remains well established in the northern Gulf of Mexico without ongoing human intervention. 10 According to a University of South Florida study released in advance of the ten-year anniversary...
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 3. A gift from geologist Ali Bey and his team: a cut, smoothed, and polished piece of oil shale core. Photograph by the author. More
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 361–366.
Published: 01 July 2022
... in a 50,000-hectare oil palm concession in the Indonesian-controlled region of West Papua. Before oil palm, this land was home to many of Patricius’s kin—cassowaries, possums, birds of paradise, sago palms. Now, an uncanny silence presides in the plantation, interrupted occasionally by crashing bulldozers...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 402–426.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and scholars explain in their essay collection After Oil (2016), an equitable energy transition is impossible without “changing how we think , imagine , see , and hear ”—a task best met by engaging with literary texts, visual art, performance, and scholarship. 80 Extractive fictions work to enact...
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