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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 93–112.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Sarah Elton Abstract A methodology for plant qualitative research is at an early stage of development. While conducting a multispecies ethnography of gardeners and the plants they grow for food in a neighborhood in transition from social housing to a mixed-income community in Toronto, the author...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 661–679.
Published: 01 November 2024
...James Palmer Abstract Bioenergy derived from plants is typically defined by its capacity to act as a sustainable substitute for fossil fuels. Yet plants might also help us to rethink the very purpose of energy in the Anthropocene, with implications for prevailing attitudes toward growth...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 58–78.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Tim Watson Abstract This essay analyzes Miami as a place where plants are a major component of urban infrastructure. The centrality of tropical plants to the growth of Miami connects that city to the history of empire, where control of plant matter was the violent model for the standardization...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Aparajita Majumdar Abstract This article analyzes how a failed rubber crop from the plantations of British India became indispensable to the shaping of Indigenous ecologies in the India-Bangladesh borderlands. While a growing scholarship focuses on plants that became profitable within plantation...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 370–396.
Published: 01 November 2018
... though the methods employed can be destructive and long-term success is often limited. Building on recent work critiquing categorical approaches to invasive species management, we argue that such campaigns obscure not only the underlying conditions but also the ongoing production of plant invasiveness...
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Published: 01 March 2025
Figure 1. The Tucuruí hydroelectric plant on the Tocantins River. Pará, Brazilian Amazon. From the film Amazon Mirror . Courtesy of Fernando Segtowick. More
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Published: 01 March 2025
Figure 2. Warren Cariou, Syncrude Plant and Tailing Pond Reflections (2014). Petrograph on aluminum, 8 × 10 in. © the artist. More
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Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 3. Modified scarifier used by Colin Seis to plant annual crops into a perennial pasture, 2013. Courtesy of Anne O’Brien. More
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Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 1. Collecting wild plant seeds in Chernobyl during fieldwork. Reproduced courtesy of Laetitia Carrive. More
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Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 4. Plant label for Encephalartos altensteinii x trispinosus at Kirstenbosch. Photograph by Melanie Boehi. More
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Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 2. Plant Physiology Lab, featuring a Wardian case (right), Ganong (left), and students using bell jars and other botanical apparatuses, Smith College, ca. 1904. Photograph by Katherine Elizabeth McClellan. CA-MS-00104, Buildings Records, College Archives, Smith College Special Collections. More
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Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 5. Ganong (left) with students and Pelargonium plants in the Plant Physiology House, 1910. Bell jars covered in paper sit on a table on right. Photograph by Katherine Elizabeth McClellan. Buildings Records, College Archives, Smith College Special Collections. More
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Published: 01 July 2024
Figure 1. Warren Cariou, Tailings Pond and Bitumen Plant (2016). Bitumen photograph, 8 in. × 10 in. More
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 3. Linneaus’s table of plant species for constructing his Horologium Florae, arranged by the hour when flowers begin to bloom each day (from 3:00 a.m . to 12:00 noon on this page). From: Caroli Linnaei, Philosophia Botanica (Stockholm: Kiesewetter, 1751: 274). More
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 4. Art wall, treatment plant. Photo by John Sabraw (2017). More
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 1. Swale , moored at Concrete Plant Park, in the Bronx. Courtesy of Mary Mattingly. More
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 6. Time Landscape’ s plant community has evolved according to its own trajectory rather than following anticipated patterns of plant succession. Courtesy of Alan Sonfist. More
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 385–400.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Janelle Marie Baker Abstract This article describes moments of plant-induced enchantment during community-based environmental monitoring and ethnographic research in Treaty No. 8 sakâwiyiniwak territories. These multispecies ethnographic encounters while collaborating with Elders and friends from...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 602–617.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Joela Jacobs Abstract This article traces the emergence of and shifts in ideas about plant sexuality in European literature from the late seventeenth century to the present, with a particular focus on influential British and a few less well-known German texts. Positioned as a specifically...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 371–384.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Randy Laist Abstract The Secret Life of Plants , a 1973 book that was developed into a 1979 documentary film, reports on a flurry of parapsychological research involving attempts to communicate with plants using electrodes, lie detectors, and psychic powers. The book highlights the work of Cleve...