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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 361–366.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Sophie Chao [email protected] © 2022 Sophie Chao 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Patricius, an Indigenous Marind elder, is teaching me how to listen to plantations. 1 We are standing...
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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 (2023) 15 (2): 1–18.
Published: 01 July 2023
... on ethnographic data from Indian tea plantations that are in the process of being converted to organic agriculture, this article examines specific attempts to alter the intersection of vegetal and financial growth. As a cultivation system, plantations intensify the manipulation of plant growth for monetary ends...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 554–570.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Hannah Rachel Cole Abstract The biologist Merlin Sheldrake has named the tendency for humans to privilege plants to the exclusion of fungi “plant-centrism.” Connecting Sheldrake’s claim to critiques of the Caribbean plantation system, this article argues that plant-centrism is inherent...
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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 (2022) 14 (3): 499–521.
Published: 01 November 2022
... and enabled by anti-Blackness, which sanctioned a systematic hostility to life that encoded environmental violence in plantation landscapes from the seed to the root. Agrotechnological notions of scientific progress and development conceived places, plants, and Black people as interchangeable parts. Tracing...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 18–39.
Published: 01 May 2017
... plantations and bustling tourist town. In many ways, Darjeeling is what Val Plumwood calls a “shadow place.” Shadow places are sites of extraction, invisible to centers of political and economic power yet essential to the global circulation of capital. The existence of shadow places troubles the notion...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2024
... pigment from Afghan rocks and raise indigo plantations on stolen land, with stolen labor. The article analyzes the lapis lazuli series by Dutch artist Pieter Paul Pothoven and the performance of the poem “Unity” by Aotearoa New Zealand poet Selina Tusitala Marsh. Pothoven’s work shows how blue analysis...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 141–154.
Published: 01 May 2012
... disturbance history with feminist multispecies company. Cereals domesticate humans. Plantations give us the subspecies we call race. The home cordons off inter- and intra-species love. But mushroom collecting brings us somewhere else—to the unruly edges and seams of imperial space, where we cannot ignore...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 271–290.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of the enslaved—the plot—where food for domestic consumption was grown, and the monocrop plantation where food production was oriented toward export. 16 Her analysis positioned the plot as a countercapitalist site of communality and Black social reproduction taking place alongside and in opposition...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 421–446.
Published: 01 November 2018
... headquarters, one of Indonesia’s largest oil palm conglomerates. 1 Over the course of a four-hour-long meeting, company representatives described the various stages of palm oil production in the plantation, mill, refinery, and kernel crushing plant. The presenters referred to PowerPoint slides packed...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 182–201.
Published: 01 March 2022
... exist today in the surrounding countries. 19 Likewise, in the United States, many Black fugitives escaping plantation slavery received help from Native Americans on their way to Canada, such as Josiah Henson in the nineteenth century. 20 This silencing of Indigenous peoples seems...
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The War between Amaranth and Soy: Interspecies Resistance to Transgenic Soy Agriculture in Argentina
Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 204–229.
Published: 01 November 2017
... plants except for the main crop. In response to the repeated applications of Roundup, however, weeds, of which one of the most aggressive has been Palmer amaranth ( Amaranthus palmeri ), mutated and evolved resistance to the herbicide, undermining RR-soy plantations in the process. 4 Super weeds have...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 1.
Published: 01 November 2023
...-producing lands of the southern United States was enabled and animated by anti-Blackness. Plantation logics devalued Black lives and labor, turning to chemical technological fixes to the cotton crises. Cotton fields were saturated with chemicals and with racism. We recognize this article for its deep...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 291–308.
Published: 01 July 2024
... starts by hearing Maroon voices to learn how these descendants of survivors of the plantation—perhaps the platonic form of necropolitical modernity—“put into practice another way of living together and relating to the Earth.” 4 What follows is an admittedly ideal-typical attempt to understand one...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 321–340.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., the authors suggested, could be attained through “climate-smart” efforts that would incentivize agribusiness to support, besides their colossal monoculture plantations, some remaining forests that could help preserve somewhat-stable ecological conditions. The proposal would revive climate-smart agriculture...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 265–269.
Published: 01 March 2024
... , no. 3 ( 2023 ): 371 – 92 . Chao Sophie . “ Children of the Palms: Growing Plants and Growing People in a Papuan Plantation .” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 27 , no. 2 ( 2021 ): 221 – 53 . Clarke Adele , and Haraway Donna , eds., Making Kin...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 746–765.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and historical settings. 25 This distinction, however, makes little sense in the context of Central Kalimantan’s peat fires. Here the different actors involved—local people, plantation companies, NGOs, and government members—engage dynamically in various forms of conscious and unconscious disregard...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 419–437.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., but it is also treated as an entity in its own right. The term forest generally stands in opposition to timber plantation ( plantación ), where historically imported fast-growing species, such as Pinus radiata and Eucalyptus globulus , are harvested and commercialized mostly as construction material...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 697–708.
Published: 01 November 2024
... environmental catastrophes, deadly pandemics, and deepening global inequalities, figures of heroes and villains abound. Ranging from selfless conservationists to uncaring states, protective cosmic beings to COVID-19, and climate-friendly crops to industrial plantations, such figures are conjured by multiple...
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