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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Erin Fitz-Henry Abstract In this article I pose a series of questions about the relationships between the temporal rhythms of late capitalism and the flourishing of those relational “onto-epistemologies” so celebrated by recent theorists of the ontological turn. Bringing together recent research...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 169–186.
Published: 01 May 2013
... re-emerged after the Dark and Middle Ages (Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton) followed by a correlative revolution in moral philosophy (Hobbes, Hume, Kant). In particular, moral ontology (externally related individuals) reflected the ontology of physics (externally related atoms). Individuals...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 414–432.
Published: 01 November 2021
... ontologically to the world it makes sensible. In this view aesthetics does not rely on a subject’s capacity to apprehend the world as a perceptually objectifiable entity. Focusing on works by Jason deCaires Taylor ( Anthropocene and La Gardinera de la Esperanza ) and Robert Smithson ( Spiral Jetty...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 132–166.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and representability of sea ontologies, wet matter, and transcorporeal engagements with the more-than-human world. This work generally focuses on a universalized ocean (as nonhuman nature) rather than a geographically and culturally specific place (as history). The authors’ work turns the visual focus from the surface...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 180–193.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., and minds, not to mention our worlds, without individuating us in this targeting, as indifferent and random as the global dump that nourishes it. Disrupting metabolism at every scrambled register of existence, it waxes into what Marder calls “ontological toxicity,” the mangled parts of the dump that do...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 37–56.
Published: 01 May 2016
... to choreograph an ontological state. Conducting an outmoded pregnancy test with live Xenopus frogs, we probed the contours of this gap. As we took an antiquated bioassay out of medical archives, we conducted a performative experiment—an intervention that blurred the boundaries between performance art, science...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 245–263.
Published: 01 May 2021
... is never simple, never complete, and never without ingrained and intersecting structures of suppressed and channeled violence. Waters leave a trail of their own, writ on and in water. It contains stories that are recorded and relived. It has ontologies that are plural, overlapping, and multiple modes...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 181–200.
Published: 01 May 2021
... the spectators’ immediate emphatic and empathetic reactions to the animal creatures on-screen. By evoking affective responses below the visible and audible registers, the films place the human animal body both in proximity to and at a distance from the nonhuman animal, revealing ontological ties as well...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 29–48.
Published: 01 March 2022
... with watery ecologies, then, also involves attention to speculative climate fictions (cli-fi) and the potential worlds they help fathom. Cli-fi renderings of climate disaster provide critical insight into possible alternative arrangements of power, meaning, and ontological status. As such, this article...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 419–437.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of the ontological and ethical limits of human care, limits made visible by the nonhumans’ potentials to respond to our actions and affect us. Reflections on the limits of care foster an attentiveness to the conditions responsible for nonhumans’ ability of enchantment, a term that in Bennett’s proposal concerns...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 284–302.
Published: 01 July 2022
...’ geographies, the article asks how microorganisms might express their own directives, preferences, and constraints on the research process, and how, in turn, we might listen and be directed by them. Although the ontological and ethical commitments of the environmental humanities are well suited for welcoming...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 522–542.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Soledad Altrudi; Christopher M. Kelty Abstract Multispecies entanglement has been a major research focus in environmental humanities, aiming to rethink ontological and ethical possibilities, especially in urban settings, by attending to speculative other-than-human futures. This article dwells...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 431–453.
Published: 01 November 2020
... in further bureaucratized inequities and harm, even as they claim to support life by ontologizing cost efficiency and cost-benefit thinking, accumulating biological data for geosurveillance and biosecurity, and treating risk and vulnerability as the property and responsibility of certain individuals/bodies...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 93–112.
Published: 01 May 2021
... wondered, How to account for plants and their agency? What is evidence of vegetal politics? What is a multispecies ethnographer doing when decentering the human in relation to garden plants, beyond what is un- done ontologically? This article situates itself in the plant turn and proposes a methodology...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 55–75.
Published: 01 May 2014
... the ontological question of what it means to be free human beings in the world of nature, intended as a finite, temporal world. From an ecocritical perspective, Badlands' 1950s setting lends itself to a retrospective illumination of the forces that have contributed to the present problematic human-nature relation...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 November 2016
... the implications of ME for the environmental humanities in general and for Anthropocene narratives in particular. ME relies on non-Darwinian evolutionary principles. In common with other branches of Earth system science, it also destabilizes prevailing ontological categories. Life becomes more material, matter...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 190–204.
Published: 01 May 2020
... for such reflection by denaturalizing the category soil, discussing its complex materialities, its multiple scales, and the diversity of existing soil ontologies and epistemologies. In so doing they argue for a relational materiality approach to the study of soils. The authors place this relational materiality...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 95–117.
Published: 01 May 2016
... capitalism as ontological project—using the stone as a lens to explore imaginaries of relational personhood, the distribution of harm, and the limits of vulnerability. In closing, the article relates the “life” of the stone to ongoing discussions about the Anthropocene and how to develop novel, more...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 398–417.
Published: 01 November 2017
... part of worlding processes and projects that further these frontiers. The emphasis on “microbial ontologies” is designed to draw attention to the increasing expediency of conceptualizing extreme earthly ecologies as analogues for other planetary worlds, as a way of tracing the relational trajectories...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 64–86.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of ESS and the associated Earth qua Earth system in relation to how Hamilton, Morton, and Latour metaphysically interpret the Anthropocene as the call for demodernizing the world, disavowing modern dissociation, and navigating an inescapable ontology of association. The question guiding the presented...
