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Published: 01 May 2013
Figure 9 Thorald Manns, c.1949, in his early 20s. “We had a wonderful crop of potatoes that year with twenty tons to the acre.” 41 Photo courtesy of Thorald Manns. More
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 725–745.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Olivia Angé Abstract The history of capitalism features a number of glorified characters, such as Frederick the Great and Antoine Parmentier, lauded for contributing to national prosperity by purportedly introducing the prolific potato to the masses. This article redirects our attention toward...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 141–154.
Published: 01 May 2012
... catastrophe may be the Irish potato blight. Potatoes were grown in Ireland with monocrop zeal—but a zeal forged in the reverse image of state-led grain expansion. British colonisation had driven Irish to the most marginal lands; military raids burned and confiscated grain crops; only underground tubers...
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Published: 01 March 2023
, sweet potatoes, fennel, and castor bean plants. Image courtesy of the authors. More
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 43–70.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Figure 9 Thorald Manns, c.1949, in his early 20s. “We had a wonderful crop of potatoes that year with twenty tons to the acre.” 41 Photo courtesy of Thorald Manns. ...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 164–167.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., sweet potatoes, fennel, and castor bean plants. Image courtesy of the authors. ...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 697–708.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of articles that illuminate particular diagnostic templates and theories that disrupt, or at least blur, dichotomic renderings of heroes and villains. Olivia Angé takes us on a tour across space and time through an exploration of different sites of potato cultivation—from highland Andean societies to agro...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 174–179.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., shower curtains, detergents, cosmetics. Estrogens in water bottles, flame retardants, children’s toys, money. Estrogens coat hands holding receipts. Estrogens accumulate like sensible heat. Date palm, rhubarb, willow defend themselves. Plum, potato, parsley defend themselves. Coffees...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 419–437.
Published: 01 July 2022
... occasion, while tilling the soil around potatoes soon to be harvested, Liscán pointed at a group of potatoes that were remarkably smaller than the rest and said: “See, those are papas wuncha . It means that they are orphans, just like those children who have been neglected and grew up by themselves...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 438–456.
Published: 01 July 2022
... years he’d been traveling back and forth to a small town in central Wisconsin where he worked as a farm laborer, looking after sweet potatoes. He would leave by bus each April, return for a few weeks each August, then leave again for Wisconsin where he would work through December. He and his wife had...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 331–350.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of the human protein FTO into rice and potatoes, the insertion of synthetic sRNA into transgenic rice, and the whole genome engineering of crops. 33 Transgressing species borders, genetic engineering does not rely on multigenerational breeding, which is indispensable for traditional and modern crop...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 167–174.
Published: 01 May 2015
... it would not necessarily have solved the problem, but it would at least have avoided the indignity of suggesting to these people that they become farmers planting winter-resistant GM potatoes. This vacuousness of so-called rational solutions is coupled with a vision of nature as wilderness (mirror, some...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... A few examples of commodity studies focusing on capitalism’s success story across the globe include Warman, Corn and Capitalism ; Bealer and Weinberg, World of Caffeine ; Zuckerman, Potato . 13. Mitman “Reflections on the Plantationocene.” 14. Spivak, “Planetarity,” in Death...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 3–26.
Published: 01 May 2019
... over the trellises of cucumbers and not-quite-ripe tomatoes. The greens and bean plants have begun their decay, in their place already a flush of onions, and mound upon mound of potatoes—purple, red, and gold. The food forest sits just on the horizon, beyond the pollinator apiary, where the perennial...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 124–141.
Published: 01 July 2023
... like kūmara (sweet potato), Sullivan suggests how cultivation can be shaped by night. Māori delineations of time are responsive to the star fields visible at times of the year as well as to the Sun’s changing pathway and the phases of the moon, and these observations can guide planting and harvesting...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 35–53.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of potato mould, the squelch and slap Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge Through living roots awaken in my head. But I've no spade to follow men like them. Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests. I'll dig with it. These lines evoke a rural, physical environment through...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 182–201.
Published: 01 March 2022
... marked by the obligation of secrecy. Many Maroons lived in makeshift houses, in trees, in caves, or underground, while some managed to build little huts deep inside the woods. They planted different crops such as rice, corn, sweet potatoes, squash, peas, and other vegetables, and raised cattle, hogs...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 265–283.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of droppings is gathered from a defined area of the holding yards, rinsed in water until it runs clear, and pressed through a potato ricer to create a “cake” for discussion by farm staff. Undigested grains and short fibers signal incomplete digestion and therefore a problem in the way that the rumen is being...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 49–70.
Published: 01 March 2022
... imperceptible snap as the sand releases its hold. In your hands you now hold the “meat of the sand.” It does not just live in the sand, my interlocutors told me, it is meat made by the sand. This meat looks and feels a bit like a potato, but more humid and lumpier. This meat of the sand is not a self-enclosed...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 205–226.
Published: 01 May 2020
.... The military forces, though reduced, still reach to nearly 7000 men, and a militia of the whole population. . . . More corn is grown than is generally consumed, but that arises from the lower classes being subsisted principally on potatoes. Some of the best wines are made in this state. It supplies other...