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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 107–127.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Jake P. Greear Abstract In this paper I examine the contemporary trend toward de-industrialized and decentralized production with a view to its implications for ecological sustainability. Specifically, I suggest we can understand the potential positive ecological implications of such trends...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 267–284.
Published: 01 May 2020
... grasses throughout the year ensures that the soil surface is protected and the soil ecosystem is fed with sugars, the products of photosynthesis. Each different plant species secretes a unique mix of sugars to attract particular microbes. 30 Most partner with mycorrhizal fungi, which help to build soil...
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Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 2. Total annual electricity production in the United States by source, 1949–2011. Source: US Energy Information Administration, “Energy Perspectives: 1949–2011.” More
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Published: 01 May 2019
Figure 1. Can writing function as a productive hormone disruptor within larger cultural narrative sequences? This is my urine. Its metabolites are messages. More
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 108–128.
Published: 01 May 2017
... in which life is associated with disruption, pathology, and chaos, while that part of the animal that remains productive comes to be viewed as determined, machinelike, and anthropogenic. In this essay, I focus on the way that life is counted upon to exceed . Industrial animal husbandry depends upon...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 71–88.
Published: 01 March 2022
... livestock production, lack of efficiency is not one of them. This article examines to what extent this so-called second domestication departs from the radical transformations of animal biologies and living conditions to which it responds. Drawing on canonical texts in agrarian political economy, it parses...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 May 2020
... the instantaneously mediated and circulated chemical dust explosions in Kunshan and Tianjin in 2014–15 as eco-media events —that is, spectacular and ephemeral moments in which the material processes of digital production link the old forms of resource extraction with our new lives of electronic gadgetry and media...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 205–226.
Published: 01 May 2020
...) arguments about the production of abstract space, this article argues that Liebig’s assessment of nutrient extraction was essential to a broader midcentury reconsideration and reorganization of capitalist agricultural production, an example of what world ecologist Jason Moore calls an “organizational...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 370–387.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., which influence policy and conservation efforts. This article examines how particular physical, epistemic, and cultural geographies mediate the production of conservation discourses and narratives of endangerment. It explores an anomalous case in which the endangered species presented never physically...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 618–640.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of both sex and nature and consequently introduces environmentally attuned thinking to early twentieth century sexual knowledge production. By examining the parallels and divergences between Magnus Hirschfeld’s early twentieth-century sexological writing about “transvestitism” and Loïe Fuller’s modernist...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 499–521.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Brian Williams; Jayson Maurice Porter Abstract This article examines how racial capitalism has shaped the ecological and technological dynamics of cotton production in the United States South. Cotton’s destructive dependence on chemicals and on the extraction of lives and resources was animated...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 1–18.
Published: 01 July 2023
... plant’s growth. The article argues that, on organic tea plantations, green growth aspires to harness the unruly aspects of nonhuman life to make monocultures more productive. In the process, the nonscalable impulses of vegetal growth, unpredictable interactions with wildlife, and even the potentially...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 661–679.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., productivity, waste, and even pleasure. Drawing on resource and vegetal geographies, the energy humanities, and posthumanist accounts of capitalist production, this provocation begins by highlighting the shared reliance of bioenergy and fossil energy on the work that plants do while photosynthesizing...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 39–61.
Published: 01 July 2023
... from topsoil, growing rice, and other improvisations for relating to soils that cascade to regenerate a livable world. This article discusses how the Japanese state utilizes temporal scales that orient its citizenry to a future associated with accelerated and intensified productivity as a sign...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 40–62.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Erika Amethyst Szymanski Abstract Humans and yeast have a long history of productive collaboration in making a global array of fermented foodstuffs including wine, bread, and beer. Synthetic biology is now changing the shape of human-yeast work. The Sc2.0, or “synthetic yeast,” project aims...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 213–225.
Published: 01 May 2018
... suggest, engage with the productive ways in which deep time reworks questions of narrative, self, and representation. In addressing these dynamics, this introduction and the accompanying articles place current concerns into the larger flows of planetary temporalities, revealing deep time as productive...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 370–396.
Published: 01 November 2018
... though the methods employed can be destructive and long-term success is often limited. Building on recent work critiquing categorical approaches to invasive species management, we argue that such campaigns obscure not only the underlying conditions but also the ongoing production of plant invasiveness...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 73–102.
Published: 01 May 2015
...-by-case basis. This paper considers the epistemological implications of the digitisation of the Directors' Correspondence (DC) collection (1841-1928) at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, made available through the Global Plants database. In order to avoid a polarised analysis of the end-products of archive...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 89–105.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Shannon Cram Abstract Nuclear weapons production has created a unique geography of irradiated open space in the United States. In recent years, many of these landscapes have been re-classified as national wildlife refuges in an attempt to transform the nation's atomic sacrifice zones into spaces...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 227–249.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., making the production of ever-growing yields and the maintenance of healthy ecosystems co-constitutive. Drawing on ethnographic data from English farming, this article argues that the current trends are in fact a continuation of the logic of capitalist soil improvement in which soils are made...
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