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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 388–405.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of the environmental humanities. As Ursula Heise has shown, they also shape how extinction is investigated, communicated, and the meanings through which it is framed. 8 It is with the question of framing that we begin our speculative response to this special issue exploring particular geographies of extinction...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 270–276.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., defined as “the sum of those conditions of social life which allow social groups and their individual members relatively thorough and ready access to their own fulfilment” (§156). To make private property an absolute principle, by contrast, is to lose the sense of responsibility upon which all civil...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 245–254.
Published: 01 May 2016
... pursue, and conversely, which should be allowed to unfold in accordance with the inertia of their trajectories. The Manifesto's humanism also prescribes what aspects of nature's destruction demand immediate response and what aspects of nature's destruction it must pass over in silence. According...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 485–492.
Published: 01 November 2019
... as it is, this particular manifesto is also modestly multiple. It is the first iteration of potentially several that has been formulated with an explicit commitment to restatement and reframing. This commitment encourages me in my task of writing a response, as I hope my comments may be understood not as criticisms...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 216–238.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Wibke Straube Abstract Tracing ticks in two different artworks and Leslie Feinberg’s activist writing, Wibke Straube takes their lead in this article from philosopher Donna Haraway and her suggestion to think about engagement with the environment through an “ethics of response-ability...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 May 2016
... and crafting meaningful response. Copyright © 2016 Thom van Dooren, Eben Kirksey, and Ursula Münster 2016 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). multispecies immersive methods attentiveness more-than-human ethics world-making...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 147–167.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of history? Our response follows two main lines of thought. The first relates to the concept of the ‘Anthropocene’ and the possibilities that it offers historians to reconsider their subject in the light of what earth science is saying about earth history and our particularly recent role in its shaping. From...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 181–200.
Published: 01 May 2021
... the spectators’ immediate emphatic and empathetic reactions to the animal creatures on-screen. By evoking affective responses below the visible and audible registers, the films place the human animal body both in proximity to and at a distance from the nonhuman animal, revealing ontological ties as well...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 457–474.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., this article explores alignments between affective enchantment and interspecies response-ability. Juxtaposing two ethnographic sites in Norway, salmon aquaculture and nature conservation, Marianne E. Lien argues that ethical conduct calls for relational interspecies commitment beyond mere affect: enchantment...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 433–440.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of analysis, the five contributions—combining perspectives from ecocriticism, environmental philosophy, film studies, visual arts, and history—showcase alternative presents and futures of living responsibly with a permanently polluted planet. Writing from the perspective of hazardous hope, the section’s...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 71–91.
Published: 01 May 2013
... powerful and universalizing explanations about why ‘our planet’ is being exhausted, and how ‘we’ must respond with urgent action. One of the effects of this response is that environmental problems are naturalized as empirical facts around which new forms of governance and regulation must emerge. While...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 53–71.
Published: 01 May 2015
... millions of years. The loss of wildness thus elicits a loss of harmony. I consider these Anthropocene interpretations of silence, noise and dissonance by comparing the environmentalist concerns of Krause with responses to the Listening to Birds project—an anthropological investigation of bird sounds...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 295–309.
Published: 01 May 2018
... stories from isolated places, and the mysteriously mutilated corpses of deer considers the significance of encounters with this phantasm for recent debates surrounding the proper understanding of the beginning of the Anthropocene and the implications of this for our sense time and responsibility...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 152–173.
Published: 01 May 2019
... project Asbestos (2016), shot at the mining town of Asbestos, Quebec, mobilizing a discussion of haptic visuality to theorize toxic embodiment in its relationship to reciprocity, vulnerability, and responsibility. In the case of asbestos, the boundary of inside and outside traverses a series of unfolding...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 151–168.
Published: 01 May 2016
...-crossing and their apprehension as unruly subjects might reveal the impossibility of the nature/culture divide. We tell these stories, not to offer a final fixed solution to the asymmetrical, awkward and frictional entanglements of humans' and raccoons' lives, but as a responsive telling that may bring...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 149–170.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Kelsey Green; Franklin Ginn Abstract The sudden decline of bee pollinator populations worldwide has caused significant alarm, not least because Apis mellifera, the European honeybee, is thought to be responsible for pollination of 71 of the 100 crop species which provide 90% of the world's food...
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Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 3. Mass protests against government inaction on climate change reflect a contemporary urgency similar to that which can be inferred (from ancient stories) to have informed people’s responses to rising sea levels more than 7,000 years ago. Photograph from San Diego, California, in March More
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 454–474.
Published: 01 November 2020
...” approach to storying extinction. This approach, developed by Deborah Bird Rose and Thom van Dooren, seeks to draw readers into imaginative encounters with embodied, specific, and lively creatures to support situated ethical responses. While at first this approach might seem antithetical to exploring...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 407–430.
Published: 01 November 2020
... concept of livable worlds, such as those in which nonnormate life thrives. Whereas the former ought to broaden its notion of “lives worth living,” the latter would benefit from a more specific theory of design—the making and remaking of more livable worlds. In response, this article offers the concept...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 475–491.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Kin , setting out concerns about their turn to (over)population through the analytical insights, historical perspectives, and empirical data of Murphy and Sasser. By putting these three books in dialogue with one another, this essay argues that responsibility for limitations on one’s ability to make...