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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 842–849.
Published: 01 November 2024
... (for our purposes Rattus rattus and Rattus norvegicus ); this is the first animal to be configured as an epidemic or indeed pandemic villain in human history, becoming targeted as the universal spreader of bubonic plague in the course of the latter’s third pandemic (1894–1959), during which more than...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 301–305.
Published: 01 May 2014
... . Lowe Celia , “ Viral Clouds: Becoming H5N1 in Indonesia ,” Cultural Anthropology 25 , no. 4 ( 2010 ): 625 - 648 . McNeill William H. Plagues and Peoples . New York : Anchor Books , 1976 . Pearson Keith Ansell . Viroid Life: Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 301–322.
Published: 01 November 2021
... in particular—“Example A,” as one nature writer puts it, “of the lack of wisdom of introducing foreign species of wildlife without careful consideration.” 4 56. For Cantwell’s turn away from literary fiction, see Reed, Robert Cantwell and the Literary Left , 142–58 . 57. Cantwell, “A Plague...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 454–455.
Published: 01 November 2017
... decades, in line with politics of exploration and empire, progressive scientific understanding of outer space, and Anthropocenic concerns with a damaged Earth plagued by human signatures. A recurrent theme, the editors point out, is the possibility for humans to establish a viable base in outer space...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 807–825.
Published: 01 November 2024
... hundred years plagues will become widespread. At that time, will there be any means to protect oneself and others, or not? If so, one would not be affected while treating others. Protector of beings, please respond! — Yuthok Yonten Gonpo, The Subsequent Tantra In this passage from Tibetan...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 180–193.
Published: 01 May 2019
.... Aleksandr Pushkin had an apt designation for it: a feast in the time of plague. “As we lock ourselves indoors when the prankster Winter comes, / So we will do when the Plague approaches! / Candles we’ll light and wine pour, / Merrily drowning our minds in it. / And, throwing feasts and balls, / We...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 272–274.
Published: 01 May 2021
... while confronting the spread of a highly contagious disease. De Certeau’s connection between the bubonic plague and the rise of individualism suggested that contagion may drive humans to alienate themselves and their fellows. When Self exists at the expense of Other, staying human requires...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 461–464.
Published: 01 November 2019
... geological processes that underpin these provide a constant, disorientating counterpoint: Sebald’s narrator, faced with the difficulty of reconciling the multiple perspectives of progress and decay, is plagued by vertigo and dizziness. Chakrabarty’s question in “Four Theses” of whether this period of Western...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 7–21.
Published: 01 May 2012
... is a brilliant detective who tasks himself with finding the culprit for Laius' death, the culprit who is bringing a plague to Thebes—a plague thought precisely as an ecological disaster, a miasma that affects crops, animals and people, the very form of the agricultural society. His brilliant detective work...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 171–174.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., it admits to similar limitations, including “public concern for animal welfare and the withdrawal of many chemical control tools” among its challenges, along with “mouse plagues” and “expanding carp populations.” 6 The practical and political difficulties of extirpating well-established invasive...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 554–570.
Published: 01 November 2024
... spore-like spread: “The poison crawled across the Plaine du Nord, invading pastures and stables. . . . The most experienced herbalists of the Cap sought in vain for the leaf, the gum, the sap that might be carrying the plague.” 44 Erudite plant knowledge acquired from European education is no defense...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 422–425.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of tierriales horribles —horrible dust storms now sweeping the Gran Chaco that are the direct result of the soy frontier in northern Argentina. 8 Here, large-scale deforestation of the cattle-carrying jungle has created a new dust sensorium: this world has become hotter, drier, and plagued by epidemics...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 147–167.
Published: 01 May 2013
.... Ruddiman, Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005), chapters 8-10. 14 Dipesh Chakrabarty, “The Climate of History: Four Theses,” Critical Inquiry 35, Winter (2009): 210. 13 Dukes, Minutes, 7, 11-13...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 590–601.
Published: 01 November 2022
... rise to these meanings. If it appears as if the future is in forward motion as much as it is in retrograde, it is because visions of the unfolding Anthropocene epoch are plagued by these kinds of atavistic mythologies. In an era of unprecedented ecological crises and accelerating losses in species...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 590–602.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., tearing at bodies like the claws of a tiger that carve red stripes into flesh, rendering the disharmony of the interior on the seemingly harmonious exterior; they are a plague of immediacy and intensities. To be striped, to be spotted, to be variegated is to fold and unfold oneself into the world...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 23–55.
Published: 01 May 2012
... are among the other plagas (plagues/pests) that attack the rice crop. A diversity of plaguicidas (fungicides, herbicides, and insecticides) are used to combat these organisms. One study in the neighbouring village of Tamarindo found that there were nine herbicides, five fungicides, and nine insecticides...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 460–477.
Published: 01 July 2024
... that generally takes a dim view of the local corruption, infrastructural fragility, and failures of collective governance that plague Marcus’s work and family life, the more so if the book is read as a work of fictional eco-miserabilism. But was it also a missed opportunity to engage more fully with hope...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 37–56.
Published: 01 May 2016
... for use in pregnancy tests around the world. By transporting Xenopus around the planet, Weldon surmised, humans inadvertently helped spread a plague among frogs. 31 Weldon’s out-of-Africa hypothesis of disease emergence followed the predictable script of an outbreak narrative by stigmatizing...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 109–127.
Published: 01 March 2023
... literalized microcosmic model consonant with how the ‘gay plague’ was perceived in the media and public imagination” at the time, he argues that the film anticipates “the public’s first panicked coming to awareness of AIDS.” 20 The Thing as HIV/AIDS or “aggressive illness” more generally has become “one...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 661–679.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., Bataille’s Peak , 144 . 77. For critics, dominant policy visions of a sustainable bioeconomy are plagued by an irresolvable tension between the twin goals of wasteless resource circularity and perpetual economic growth ( Zwier et al., “Ideal of a Zero-Waste Humanity” ). 78. Lawrence...
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