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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 475–491.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of absolute scarcity, but one of distribution.” 22 The idea that the greater the human population gets, the more likely it is to starve, is crucial to Malthusianism, neo-Malthusianism, and populationism, yet for some reason the instinct among those concerned about humans’ impact on the earth 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
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 171–186.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., which alternate with a minimalist interface: a grid populated with dots signifying other animals and plants living in Banff. This essay argues that Bear 71 uses two strategies to reframe the data-driven discourse of wildlife management. First, the anthropomorphized narrative of Bear 71 reframes wildlife...
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in Mathematizing Nature's Messiness: Graphical Representations of Variation in Ecology, 1930-Present
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Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 1. A “polygon of variation,” or histogram, from Jennings (1908). The graph displays the frequency (y-axis) of length (x-axis) in four descendent populations of paramecia. Curve b, for example, conveys that 60% of individuals from population b had a length of 110 microns. B
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 May 2021
... vitalism’s rhetorical and emotional framing of ecological interdependence and epistemological populism. As such, carbon vitalism in effect reenacts long-established feminist appeals to the body (though to decidedly different political purposes). The article concludes by evaluating how the climate movement...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 November 2021
... the A. aegypti so that they can be deployed to control their own population—here, mosquito breeding and mating is operationalized as an insecticide. In this case, the insect must be simultaneously a friend and an enemy, cared for and killed, and it must establish encounters and nonencounters. Drawing...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 19–38.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Paul G. Keil Abstract Domesticated pigs ( Sus scrofa ) were introduced as livestock in Australia by European settlers, and now a large population is living wild. Rather than interrogate the settler pig as co-colonizer and destroyer of Australian ecologies, this article employs Deborah Bird Rose’s...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 162–182.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Daniel Haines Abstract The image of the heroic adventurer, who shot big game or traveled remote regions of the earth, populated the British Empire’s exploration and hunting narratives. Scholars have done much to deconstruct this image but have so far barely touched on the emotional dimensions...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 725–745.
Published: 01 November 2024
... vaunted varieties in the tuber population itself, which here are called tuberous heroes. While popularly dismissed as a humble crop, the potato has also been acknowledged as having changed world history for both the better and the worse. An analysis of these antagonistic evaluations reveals how struggles...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 104–118.
Published: 01 November 2023
... between a divided Germany resulted in an asymmetrical impact on human, animal, and plant lives populating the former East—effects that are till this day hard to account for. The research process generated a series of designs that exposed the various practical and ethical issues entangled with acts...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 1–40.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of environmental change that inflict ‘slow violence’ on vulnerable human (and non-human) populations. Nixon argues that a lack of “arresting stories, images and symbols” reduces the visibility of gradual problems such as biodiversity loss, climate change and chemical pollution in cultural imaginations...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 341–358.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Antonia Walford; Donnacha Kirk Abstract This article explores how taking physical cosmology and the entities that populate its fringes on their own terms might prompt anthropology to rethink what and how it thinks of life. Physical cosmologists work with inanimate matter that lies at the frontier...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 349–369.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Liv Østmo; John Law Abstract This article describes a colonial encounter in north Norway between Sámi practices for fishing and knowing the natural world, and the conservation policies of state policy makers. In Sámi practices the world is populated by powerful and morally lively human and nonhuman...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 108–136.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Nina Lykke Abstract With a focus on global cancer epidemics, the article discusses biopolitics in the Anthropocene against the background of a notion of dual governmentality, implying that efforts to make populations live and tendencies to let them die are intertwined. The conceptualization...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 129–149.
Published: 01 May 2018
... know what it is like to be one. In Nagel’s account, heterogeneity is figured negatively—as a failure or lack of resemblance—and functions to constrain his knowledge of bats. Today, as white-nose syndrome threatens bat populations across North America, might figuring heterogeneity positively...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 May 2013
... conditions of visibility and engagement. As a wild avian population, the Lessers are known and managed primarily through practices of asymmetrical intimacy, such as field observation and telemetry. These practices, in turn, determine the emergence of biopower in a specific modality, as a power that takes...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 43–70.
Published: 01 May 2013
... into the wild, his flute-like songs and timbre spread throughout the local lyrebird population. We count ourselves among those who admire the sonic achievements of this bioregion's “flute lyrebirds.” These Superb Lyrebirds ( Menura novaehollandiae ) do indeed deliver an unusual and extraordinarily complex...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 59–88.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Figure 1. A “polygon of variation,” or histogram, from Jennings (1908). The graph displays the frequency (y-axis) of length (x-axis) in four descendent populations of paramecia. Curve b, for example, conveys that 60% of individuals from population b had a length of 110 microns. B...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 149–170.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Kelsey Green; Franklin Ginn Abstract The sudden decline of bee pollinator populations worldwide has caused significant alarm, not least because Apis mellifera, the European honeybee, is thought to be responsible for pollination of 71 of the 100 crop species which provide 90% of the world's food...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 18–39.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., Darjeeling’s majority population of Indian-Nepalis, or Gorkhas, have struggled for subnational autonomy over the district and for the establishment of a separate Indian state of “Gorkhaland” there. In this article, I draw on ethnographic fieldwork conducted amid the Gorkhaland agitation in Darjeeling’s tea...
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