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Published: 01 May 2014
Figure 1 Millennial Northern Hemisphere (NH) temperature reconstruction (blue) and instrumental data (red) from AD 1000 to 1999, adapted from Mann et al. (1999). Smoother version of NH series (black), linear trend from AD 1000 to 1850 (purple-dashed) and two standard error limits (grey shaded
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 150–170.
Published: 01 May 2018
... and plastically, predicated on assumptions about natural appearance and behavior that may not reflect evidence from historical records. Animated by what I call techniques of contiguity, reconstructions play a persuasive role in expressing and shaping human perceptions and imaginings of past environmental disaster...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 13–33.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Figure 1 Millennial Northern Hemisphere (NH) temperature reconstruction (blue) and instrumental data (red) from AD 1000 to 1999, adapted from Mann et al. (1999). Smoother version of NH series (black), linear trend from AD 1000 to 1850 (purple-dashed) and two standard error limits (grey shaded...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 141–163.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Kristina Lyons Abstract This article presents an ethnographic and participatory action research project to reconstruct the “socioecological memory” of the Mandur River watershed in the Colombian Amazon. The objective of this project was to create conditions for community dialogues over...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 131–157.
Published: 01 May 2015
... writing as a touchstone, my essay foregrounds the environmental features of the (re)location: the extreme desert weather, the mountain vistas, the incarceree-created rock gardens, the reconstructed barracks, guard tower, and barbed wire fence, and the cemetery/monument. I bring together concepts from...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 499–521.
Published: 01 November 2022
...). With the overthrow of the Reconstruction government in South Carolina, convict leasing became a central means to coerce and obtain labor in conditions approximating slavery. The mining industry helped drive this system. By 1880, the South Carolina mining industry accounted for over 80 percent of the convict leasing...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 528–531.
Published: 01 November 2018
... airstrikes and postwar reconstruction using war debris as building material: stilt houses built on top of emptied ordnance, fences made of hammered-halves of cluster munitions, each over a meter high. How might we theorize this unexpected spoliation of war’s remains? I develop the phrase bomb ecologies out...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 137–151.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., Fjordfolket i Kvænangen. 28. Pulk, Thrane, and Sara, “Gjenreisning og Fornorsking.” 27. To this day, most of coastal architecture in Finnmark reflects a handful of standardized designs—designed by the southern architects of the reconstruction for simplified mass production, but also...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 495–511.
Published: 01 July 2024
... character is the modus operandi of microhistory. I have singled out João de Deus as the protagonist of this narrative and will attempt to fill in as many gaps as possible to reconstruct his trajectory. All I have to go by is a letter, five photographs, and a couple of follow-up telegrams. The additional...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 422–425.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of material production, as well as the dust of warfare and demolition, construction, and reconstruction. 5 These are the workings of what Jerry Zee calls the “dust kaleidoscope”: historical, geological, and meteorological processes coalesce into contingent and unstable configurations discernible perhaps...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 167–172.
Published: 01 May 2020
... are the disjunctures of geographies and histories, profoundly marked by the traces they leave, as one can only begin to speak in terms of an absence through presumption, reconstruction, or fantasy. And as argued by Jacques Derrida in Specters of Marx , these disjunctures are the very possibilities of an other...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 181–203.
Published: 01 November 2017
... not fully melt and that, subjected to gravity and pressure from new snow above, transforms eventually into ice. Each year of snowfall forms a separate layer of ice in the glacier, making it possible to reconstruct chronological layers, like tree rings. The ice and trapped gases hold information about...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 207–211.
Published: 01 May 2014
... takes his narrative from Aristotle's retrospective reconstruction of the progress of Greek thought.” That is true; I do. Aristotle provides the earliest systematic account of the philosophy that preceded his own and on which he built his own. Further, according to Greaves, “Aristotle was confused about...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 149–155.
Published: 01 May 2013
... the Presocratics initiated and that a closer look at some of their work can serve as a much better model for the future of the environmental humanities. Callicott explicitly takes his narrative from Aristotle's retrospective reconstruction of the progress of Greek thought. He takes Presocratic ‘natural philosophy...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 467–476.
Published: 01 November 2019
... for. The challenges of the Anthropocene from Chile, the reconstruction of an ecological culture that reconsiders what we are and how we relate to the rest of the Earth, is a task that demands us to rethink the way in which we value the educators of our country. It is time to collaborate. The Anthropocene...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 624–642.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and other farm refuse (e.g., rusted buckets, shovels, etc.). Through their imaginative and interpretive telling, the children reconstructed their textual and material experiences into a participatory common practice that emphasized the relationality between text, animals, materiality, and our surrounding...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 571–589.
Published: 01 November 2024
... to “reconstruct” the habitats of pets and nonhuman animals in captivity. These locations (slaughterhouse and zoo) stand respectively as figurations of the two dominant modes of consumption of nonhuman animals in modern Western culture: as industrial resource and as entertainment. In this manner, Billy comes...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 110–128.
Published: 01 March 2022
... the significant material and cultural impacts animals have on human social life. One broad thread of the interdisciplinary field of animal studies descends from Clifford Geertz in treating animals as cultural objects with meaning to be reconstructed. 19 A foundational text in this area is Geertz’s classic...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 62–84.
Published: 01 July 2023
... Isotopes in Photosynthesis.” 26. Cornwell et al., “Climate and Soils Together” ; Cernusak et al., “Within Plant Variation in Stable Carbon Isotopes” ; Johnsen et al., “Meeting Global Policy Commitments.” 25. Leavitt and Long, “Atmospheric 13 C/ 12 C Reconstruction.” 24...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 8–29.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., as is the number of young worshippers in whale festivals and rituals. Most of today’s whale temples were built or reconstructed in the late 1990s or early 2000s, after the đổi mới reforms. 36 But now, two to three decades later, many ritual specialists who were involved in these processes of ritual...
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