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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 554–570.
Published: 01 November 2024
... in plantation logic. While cash crops depend on fungal processes and networks, fungi are rarely acknowledged except where they lead to disease. They constitute a subterranean underside to plant production and, by extension, the plantation system. Working against plant-centrism, this article examines...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 361–366.
Published: 01 July 2022
... such as Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick and more recently rearticulated by Donna Haraway, Anna Tsing, and others. 5 As projects of scale and desire, plantations are rooted in the logic of mastery, discipline, and control over environments deemed useful only insofar as they serve particular humans’ ends...
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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): 271–290.
Published: 01 July 2024
... regime, discounted by and unknowable through plantation logics. These spaces have their own secretive histories and relations of Black mobilities. 34 McKittrick shows how focus on these spaces occupied by Black people, particularly women, and the spatial effects of Black women’s negotiation...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 499–521.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., and through the theft of resources from Black places. 15 Plantation logics give rise to such geographies of extraction, rendering some places purportedly uninhabitable and lifeless to bolster geographies of possession and white wealth. Plantations, McKittrick writes, constituted the political...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and Donna Haraway to signify how the extractive logics of the plantation dominate much of modern human-plant relations. 13 In the case of F. elastica , they illuminate a historiographically neglected archive of “more-than-human” actors where plantation environments were unmade both by recalcitrant crops...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 766–783.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., the existence of the plantation is a given. The framing is not how to defeat it but how to negotiate living well, autonomously, with and despite it—when to refuse, when to acquiesce. Plantations are racializing assemblages that exist according to logics of exclusion, mastery, control, and optimization...
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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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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 21–44.
Published: 01 May 2021
... the affordances of the line as a tool of atlas making and mapmaking, this article argues that Petrochemical America employs lines in ways that stage the oppositional logics at the heart of the petrochemical industry, that is, its tactical recruitment of vertical and horizontal, natural and human made, visible...
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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 (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 (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 (2021) 13 (1): 159–180.
Published: 01 May 2021
... be expanded without altering their basic elements. 44 The artificial production of the forest evokes the logic of a plantation, which for Tsing represents “the triumph of technical prowess over nature,” as indeed modernity does more broadly. 45 The plantation, as a quintessential form of colonial...
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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 (2018) 10 (1): 63–85.
Published: 01 May 2018
... and the Inverse of Slow Violence: Alien Species in Science and Society .” Environmental Humanities 7 no. 1 ( 2016 ): 1 – 40 . Lopez Patricia J. , and Gillespie Kathryn A. , eds. Economies of Death: Economic Logics of Killable Life and Grievable Death . New York : Routledge , 2015...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 159–165.
Published: 01 May 2015
... change the story. Marilyn Strathern taught me that relatives in British English were originally “logical relations” and only became “family members” in the 17th century—this is definitely among the factoids I love. 15 Go outside English, and the wild multiplies. I think that the stretch...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 842–849.
Published: 01 November 2024
... into what Jean Starobinski called a “clinical schema,” diagnosis promises to move beyond “the binarizing logics of culpability and salvation that often undergird invocations of heroes and villains, and to gesture toward other ways of knowing and responding to the Anthropocene.” 9 This heterotopic...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 235–250.
Published: 01 November 2023
...-seven trained geologists, most of them white Europeans, while there were more than one hundred Native Indonesian staff. 12 The colonial economy was driven by plantations that extended up the slopes of Java’s many volcanoes. Those volcanoes periodically destroyed the plantations, and a Volcanological...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 3–26.
Published: 01 May 2019
... It encompasses the broad array of production practices used to secure livelihoods both within and beyond the market and its attendant relations and logics. 11 Building on more-than-human and human-economy approaches, this essay develops the concept of the “more-than-human economy,” seeking to emphasize...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 117–146.
Published: 01 May 2013
... bodies to produce ever more, before death—of the land, of black human bodies—consumed the bottom line. In an era when land was cheap and its limitless availability nearly an orthodox faith, but labor expensive, rapid exploitation made viciously logical capitalistic sense, and wealthy plantation owners...