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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 641–660.
Published: 01 November 2022
... in urbanization, capitalist modes of production, and practices of colonialism that expanded the exotic animal trade. 9 When animal collections became available for a wider public in the nineteenth century, the modern zoo accommodated what historical anthropologist Ann Laura Stoler calls the “education...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 168–186.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Dominic O’Key Abstract This essay argues that the concept of extinction, polysemous if not overdetermined, is becoming an emergent keyword of contemporary public life as it faces the climate crisis. To make this argument the essay critically considers the ways in which extinction is currently being...
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 1. Samuel Langley, “Glass Globe, Cracked,” in The New Astronomy , 145. Public domain. More
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 101–123.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., but they are now being reconsidered by researchers, leading to an emerging public debate. Our aim is to improve our understanding of the public discourse on geoengineering in mass media. We analyze 1500 articles published from 2005 to 2013, constructing four coherent storylines that represent most...
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Published: 01 May 2014
Figure 1 “The Blue Marble” (NASA, photo in the public domain). More
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Published: 01 May 2014
Figure 2 “Earthrise” (NASA, photo in the public domain). More
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Published: 01 May 2014
Figure 2 “The Blue Marble” (NASA, photo in the public domain). More
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Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 1. Life cycle of Necator americanus . Image from Public Health Image Library, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( phil.cdc.gov/ ) More
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Published: 01 May 2014
Figure 3 “Earthrise” Note that the original image was tilted in publication to this familiar landscape mode, with a lifeless moon replacing the familiar foreground of earthbound horizons. Image courtesy of NASA. More
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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 1. Eduardo Molinari / Archivo Caminante. Fragment of the publicity campaign “Infocampo. La expo” published in La Capital de Rosario in June 2008. DocAC/2010. More
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 372–390.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of Wood, Tallow, Coal, Whale Oil, Gasoline, Atomic Power, and Other Energy Sources .” Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 126 , no. 2 ( 2011 ): 305 – 26 . Yusoff Kathryn . A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2019...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 27–51.
Published: 01 May 2019
... the empowering potential of narrated photography in movement organizing and communication. 23 As in Black Lives Matter, the smartphone has become critical to recent EJ movement efforts to document local environmental degradation, publicize EJ issues, build organizations, resist traditional power dynamics...
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Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 1. Cover of Petroleum in Our Age of Science (API, 1951). Author’s collection; image is in the public domain. More
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Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 1. From Souvenir of Miami, Miami Beach and Coral Gables, Florida (1928). Public domain, University of Miami Libraries, Digital Collections. More
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 85–104.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Michael E. Staub Abstract This article seeks to sidestep the dilemma of restricted access to oil company archives through a close examination of a heretofore underutilized source base: the fossil fuel industry’s own trade journals and magazines. These oil and gas industry trade publications have...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 101–116.
Published: 01 May 2013
... in crucial ways and negotiates a relationship between technical science and public deliberation. Situated in rhetorical analysis, the author takes a comparative approach towards the use of uncertainty and scientific ethos in the Silent Spring controversy. Drawing from Carson's published book, and from...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 123–140.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Alex Lockwood Abstract In the fiftieth year since the publication of Silent Spring, the importance of Rachel Carson's work can be measured in its affective influence on contemporary environmental writing across the humanities. The ground broken by Silent Spring in creating new forms of writing has...
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Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 2. From George B. Cellon, Commercial Varieties of Mango and Avocado Trees (1912). Public domain, USDA National Agricultural Library/Internet Archive. More
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Scott Hicks Abstract This article blurs the boundaries of literature, agriculture, public history, grassroots political activism, and public policymaking in order to problematize the current eco-cosmopolitan trajectory of ecocritical theory, a trajectory promulgated by Ursula K. Heise in important...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 57–77.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Amanda Hagood Abstract Recent scholarship on the work of the great nature writer, Rachel Carson, posits that her landmark book, Silent Spring (1962)—often credited with igniting the modern environmental movement—is best understood in the context of her earlier, extraordinarily popular publications...