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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 475–491.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Katharine Dow; Janelle Lamoreaux Abstract Contemporary concern about climate change has been accompanied by a resurgence in questions about what part human numbers play in environmental degradation and species loss. What does population mean, and how is this concept being put to use at a moment...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 150–170.
Published: 01 May 2018
... and plastically, predicated on assumptions about natural appearance and behavior that may not reflect evidence from historical records. Animated by what I call techniques of contiguity, reconstructions play a persuasive role in expressing and shaping human perceptions and imaginings of past environmental disaster...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 169–190.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... Some inhuman animals seek out and uncover our wastes. These ‘trash animals' choke on, eat, defecate, are contaminated with, play games with, have sex on, and otherwise live out their lives on and in our formal and informal dumpsites. In southern Canada's sanitary landfills, waste management typically...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 233–260.
Published: 01 May 2014
... argue that these publications evidence environmental humanists as playing two roles with respect to the geoscientific claims they are reacting to: the roles of “inventor-discloser” or “deconstructor-critic.” Despite their importance and their differences, as currently performed these roles hold...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 203–218.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Columbia, Canada, some novices have developed sophisticated techniques for analyzing promising signs in these data and narrativizing their own desktop prospecting labor within broader environmental and economic shifts playing out across rural Canada. This article examines how efforts to vernacularize...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 618–640.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of nature and the nonhuman in the production of modern concepts of sex, gender, and sexuality and the important role that dance can play in illuminating the intersection of sex and nature. [email protected] © 2022 Ina Linge 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 25–43.
Published: 01 March 2023
... astrobiology with visions and images from feminist postcolonial and decolonial theory, STS, and science fiction, and reflects on the enduring colonial tropes that provide the building blocks of current knowledge on outer space. The same colonial cartographic imagination at play in the much-debated frontier...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 273–294.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of artisanal pyrotechnology. Our reading of the dynamic and violent interchange between the inner and outer Earth in these examples points to a non–self-identical planetary condition, on which the very structure of temporality emerges through a play of destruction and generativity. In this light, we circle...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 230–254.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Wilson’s desire for “sustained attention [to] the nature of attacking, sadistic impulses, and the difficulties of how to live (and politick) with them” and Scott Gilbert, Jan Sapp, and Alfred Tauber’s call for “intermingled symbiont relationships.” The multispecies power structures playing out in Dying...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 111–127.
Published: 01 May 2013
... attempt to undermine the hegemony of transnational corporations and build ecologically and economically sustainable communities. Social justice plays a key role in the guiding philosophies of these movements, and yet, while many ecocritical discourses examine the uncomfortable relationship...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 57–68.
Published: 01 May 2012
... an essayistic form of narration to pull together contrasting examples that suggest hard and fast distinctions between subject and object tend to provoke misleadingly abstract descriptions of place. The specific place under investigation is a farming property in rural New South Wales. It has played a significant...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 7–21.
Published: 01 May 2012
... framework of agriculture as such. Indeed, the Theban plays (of which Oedipus Tyrannus is one) dwell on the fact of agricultural society as a form of uncanny existence. This essay argues that the principal reason for the uncanniness is the reduction of being to non-contradiction. Exit strategies from...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 84–107.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., informative speech and expletive, and communication and symptom. Building on ideas about metacommunication in animal play, I suggest that both psychic trouble and interactions to ease that trouble might be considered forms of biosemiotic creativity. By loosening and opening up the distinctions frequently...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 May 2015
... in which memory, movement and materiality play full parts. I consider absence, loss and displacement and how they operate within self-landscape practice, and how particular forms of materiality (in this case, large bridges) become charged with all sorts of emotions relating to personal history (how bridges...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 133–150.
Published: 01 May 2016
... community, where the intractable realities of human and more than human settler colonial relations are played out on a daily basis. We also try to do this rethinking collectively, in the presence of other animals with whom our inherited pasts, our mundane everyday presents and our uncertain futures...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 172–195.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., it investigates the idea and play of “Sila” in Adams’s work, Sila being a concept that Adams derives from the Inuit to signify in the largest possible sense the weather, its cosmic and chaotic modalities, and the wisdom that attends to them. 64. John Luther Adams, pers. comm., September 13, 2012. 65...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 40–59.
Published: 01 May 2017
... personal history with this reclamation in the year 1980. On bringing together these diverse temporal threads and processes, this article argues that archaeology has a particular role to play in bringing reclamations and other things of the Anthropocene into view. Copyright © 2017 Denis Byrne 2017...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 174–189.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Zeynep Oguz Abstract How might an attention to the role that the geologic plays in everyday social and political formations help reveal and politicize the geographically, temporally, and stratigraphically distributed forms of violence in the Anthropocene? Building on recent work in environmental...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 251–265.
Published: 01 November 2023
... that a planet modified by human activity would be a better earth. Coal played a particular role in mediating between earth and atmosphere, mineral and life, and matter and energy. This article details several of these secular consolations offered to popular audiences by prominent climate scientists to show...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 100–117.
Published: 01 March 2024
... masks the actual greed underlying their political decisions. On one level, this article examines how the politics of excess, playing with different human virtues and vices, reveals a deep irony in the governing systems of Vietnam and the rhetoric of independence. On another, it also points out how Duong...
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