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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 203–216.
Published: 01 May 2014
... reminder not only of the incalculable risks of the Anthropocene, but also of the basic tenets of realist storytelling. 5 Ulrich Beck, World Risk Society (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1999), 6. 6 Ibid., 5. 7 Beck's examples include Cervantes's Don Quixote, in which “in God's...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 162–182.
Published: 01 March 2024
... counterpoint to the mundanity that more usually constituted everyday empire. 37 Reducing the role of embodied emotion in hunting accounts to nil, however, risked making them too tame to serve the conventions of the genre. An earlier example, by the indigo planter James Inglis, who lived in Bihar, North...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 103–121.
Published: 01 May 2012
... intervention in Việt Nam to explore how avian influenza threats challenge long-held understandings of animals' place in the environment and society. In this intervention, poultry farmers collaborated with health workers to illustrate maps of avian flu risks in their communities. Participant-observation...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 418–432.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Jessica O’reilly Abstract From a distance, Antarctica invokes extreme imaginaries and possibilities. In the practice of everyday human Antarctic life, however, daily tasks and risks are heavily managed, mitigated, and overseen. To analyze the spectacular and mundane natures of human life...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 431–453.
Published: 01 November 2020
... uncompensated medical care that targets “superusers” of the US health care system. The case scrutinizes the operative truths, procedural rationalities, and absurd reductions performed by this administrative system that sorts people in terms of cost and risk. It shows how such administrative strategies result...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 149–170.
Published: 01 May 2014
... to be drawn are less about solving bee decline and more about how becoming less uncomfortable with vulnerability and seeking to put ourselves at risk to others becomes an ethical practice. The example of these alternative beekeepers suggests that we might learn to accept more generously the risks...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 71–88.
Published: 01 March 2022
... animal bio-industrialization into sets of practices that accelerate productivity, standardize animal life and infrastructures, and reduce risk to maximize efficiency. It shows these practices at work through recent ethnographic accounts of salmon aquaculture and pork production to illustrate how efforts...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 273–294.
Published: 01 May 2018
... back on the Krafla project to consider questions of risk, uncertainty, and responsibility that attend the potential new interface with the underworld of magma. © 2018 Nigel Clark, Alexandra Gormally, and Hugh Tuffen 2018 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 123–140.
Published: 01 May 2012
... placed affect at the very centre of contemporary narratives that call for pro-environmental beliefs and behaviours. A critical public-feelings framework is used to explore these issues and trace their passage from the private and intimate, where they risk remaining denuded of agency, and into the public...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 101–123.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Jonas Anshelm; Anders Hansson Abstract Geoengineering, i.e., the deliberate manipulation of the global climate using grand-scale technologies, poses new challenges in terms of environmental risks and human–nature relationships. Until recently, these technologies were considered science fiction...
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Oil as Solution to the Problems of Oil: The American Petroleum Institute and the Petromodern Paradox
Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 45–65.
Published: 01 May 2021
... support. Next it describes the content of the pamphlets, which employed a series of binary pairs, such as success/failure and risk/reward . API used these pairs to craft stories that acknowledged problems inherent in the oil industry, invoked their inverse, and showed how oil solved them. This article...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 203–218.
Published: 01 November 2023
... has also shaped how prospectors discern what kinds of homes bear the risks of mineral exploration labor. With free maps and simple analytical software in hand, BC-based geotechnical institutions insist, individual prospectors might yet play critical roles in luring mineral exploration companies back...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 219–234.
Published: 01 November 2023
.... Confronting these rifts might help loosen the hold of notions of ontological reconciliation between humans and nature that risk exacerbating the very problems they seek to resolve, while also helping us to seek attachments that are more conducive to living with and through earthly volatility. n.clark2...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 133–150.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of producing a “common account” of the world. 10 This necessarily means putting preconceived ideas of our place in the world at risk. It means risking rethinking dominant notions about nature and our own fraught relationship to the world. “Collective thinking in the presence of others” requires us to slow...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 101–116.
Published: 01 May 2013
...-known denier of the tobacco and cancer connection. 43 Robert Danisch, “Political Rhetoric in a World-Risk Society,” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 40, no. 2 (2010): 188. 44 Lear, Rachel Carson, 448. 45 Sevareid, and McMullen, “The Silent Spring,” 1. Emphasis added. 46...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 39–61.
Published: 01 July 2023
... no clue about the directional change in the wind that was bringing the radiation plume toward Iitate. Official scientists and ministry bureaucrats parachuted in to warn villagers to remain in their homes. Sugiyama lamented that the scientists were ill-equipped with radiation data to estimate the risks...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., there is still always a risk. Wings can get caught at odd angles in the impacting mesh, bones snap in the frantic struggle before the bird realises it is trapped and surrenders to the new parameters of its situation. Once caught and disentangled, the trick is to simulate nightfall by stuffing the birds into dark...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 152–173.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., in both cases the severity and duration of the exposure plays a crucial role, and those most at risk are workers at asbestos mines, asbestos processing factories, and asbestos removal companies. For this reason human and specifically working bodies will be the main focus within the scope of the present...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 149–153.
Published: 01 May 2014
... von Mossner's essay on science fiction and the risks of the Anthropocene discusses Dale Pendell's novel The Great Bay (2010), which features the future history of a flooded California after the Collapse in 2021 as a result of human activity on the Earth. Taking her cue from Ulrich Beck's work...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 226–240.
Published: 01 May 2018
... it was merciless. And in its wake, the community was incredulous, traumatized, and, perhaps counterintuitively, enchanted. Research initiated in the years following the fire has tracked two primary themes: the complex science of large-scale fire events (including risk mitigation) and the human story...
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