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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 243–260.
Published: 01 March 2024
... for experimenting with more-than-human participatory research praxes to intentionally generate previously imponderable questions. This article describes the authors’ experiences in Aarhus, Denmark, of combining “floating seminar” and arts-based methods, including body maps and public engagement. Through...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 64–86.
Published: 01 March 2023
...) to interpret the Anthropocene metaphysically. According to such interpretations, the Anthropocene imposes nothing less than a wholly new understanding of the world. This raises the question regarding the character of such an imposition. To develop this question, this article discusses three metaphysical...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 202–215.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Calista McRae Abstract This review essay explores three recent academic studies situated at the intersection of Black studies and animal studies: Joshua Bennett’s Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man , Bénédicte Boisseron’s Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 699–717.
Published: 01 November 2022
... with this question, this article explores my own attraction to this tiny place in postindustrial and settler colonial Hamilton, Ontario. I am curious about what it can teach us about the complex entanglements of these things, and the toxic desires that are both enabled and foreclosed by the relations that gather...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 25–43.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Alessandra Marino Abstract The New Space Age is awash with discourses about space colonization and resource exploitation, and these happily coexist with the age-old and curiosity-driven question, “Are we alone in the universe?” Astrobiology addresses this question and, at the same time, codifies...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 87–108.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Michelle Westerlaken; Jennifer Gabrys; Danilo Urzedo; Max Ritts Abstract The question of who participates in making forest environments usually refers to human stakeholders. Yet forests are constituted through the participation of many other entities. At the same time, digital technologies...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 May 2016
... detailed attention to particular entities, a multiplicity of possible connection and understanding opens up: species are always multiple, multiplying their forms and associations. It is this coming together of questions of kinds and their multiplicities that characterizes multispecies studies. A range...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 296–320.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and violence in conservation contexts, and raises important political and ethical questions regarding how lives are lost, saved, and valued. Such work offers a counter to the biopolitical tendencies of contemporary conservation discourse, emphasizing the contingent and situated character of life’s forms...
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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 (2021) 13 (1): 201–223.
Published: 01 May 2021
... metaphors of creating environmental knowledge as well as the potential and limits of listening as a model for integrating that knowledge. The author then questions integration as metaphor for multidisciplinary collaboration by testing its openness to listening beyond human worlds. The article closes...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 433–458.
Published: 01 November 2021
.... This paradigm would explore the human dimensions of environmental change fully. The timing is propitious: independently GEAs are undergoing change at the very moment that the “What next?” question is being asked by many environmental humanists. This article is intended to inspire debate and, ultimately, action...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 145–161.
Published: 01 March 2022
... that speaks to the significance of the figure of the child in the environmental humanities: even in literature by and for adults, the integration of children’s perspectives on the end of the world performs important cultural work by questioning and decentering an understanding of the ecological crisis shaped...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 265–283.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Kelly Donati Abstract For millennia, gastronomy has concerned itself with the deceptively simple question of how best to eat and live. This article proposes gastronomy as a fertile discourse, practice, and site of scholarly inquiry for thinking about the social and sensual pleasures of eating...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 438–456.
Published: 01 July 2022
... the necessity of these crossings, the kinship and well-being that movement sustains? The essay explores these questions through a series of meditations on the monarch butterfly, a creature that has become in recent years the symbol of a more expansive vision of North American belonging. Anand Pandian describes...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 457–474.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Marianne E. Lien Abstract An ethics of care in nature conservation must ask not only whose voices are heard, but also which interspecies relations that come to matter. Inspired by Jane Bennett’s question about how ethical codes are transformed into laudable acts in interspecies relations...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 284–302.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Aaron Bradshaw Abstract The emergence of Ideonella sakaiensis , a microorganism with the capacity to metabolize the widely used plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET), raises important questions about how human and nonhuman agency are related in responding to pressing environmental issues...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 195–214.
Published: 01 July 2023
... to nature as a moral authority? And at a time of significant anthropogenic environmental transformation, are some modes of nonhuman species-being permanently foreclosed? This article explores these questions, tentatively working toward a theory of nonhuman species-being, considering its possibilities...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 219–234.
Published: 01 November 2023
... to the nascent field of paleoenvironmental humanities, this article’s approach to questions of care and responsibility turns from future horizon-scanning to the realm of human origins. It focuses on two broad sets of paleo stories that share a concern with rifts or stress points that complicate originary events...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 162–182.
Published: 01 March 2024
... in number and forthrightness after the First World War, highlighting the impact of the wider British questioning of prewar models of heroic masculinity on imperial adventure literature. My texts span the late nineteenth century up to the 1940s. The beginning of this period was when adventure writing first...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 826–841.
Published: 01 November 2024
... conservation communities, this article explores the ontological questions raised by these hero and villain dynamics around radically different ideas of what caring for this butterfly means. The exploration of one insect and two care worlds intersects with the “one planet, many worlds” debate in a colonial...
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