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Published: 01 May 2012
Figure 1 A group of small-scale farmers map the location of poultry farms in their community, northern Việt Nam. Photo by author.
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 842–849.
Published: 01 November 2024
... potential is particularly evident on the local scale, as the site par excellence of ethnographic research. Across the different case studies in this collection, the authors emphasize the importance of paying close attention to local or molecular articulations of heroism and villainy on the ground, where...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 174–189.
Published: 01 November 2023
... between racialized forms of othering and planetary scales of time, space, and materiality. As a mode of earthly praxis, geosocial solidarity is what might come after the unfinished task of detangling distributed forms of violence in the Anthropocene. [email protected] © 2023 Zeynep Oguz 2023...
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Published: 01 May 2014
Figure 6 The characteristic time scales of some key processes in the Earth system: atmospheric composition (blue), climate system (red), ecological system (green), and socio-economic system (purple). Image courtesy of the IPCC, Third Assessment Report, Figure 5.1. 42
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 784–806.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of blame for the contemporary climate crisis, influencing international policy and inspiring a range of technological and economic fixes to construct “climate cattle” as keystone species for a “good Anthropocene.” Interventions are centered on bovine metabolisms at different spatial and temporal scales...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 266–283.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Andrea Ballestero Abstract Planetary awareness has become synonymous with awareness of large-scale temporal, geographic, and geologic events. Given the scalar multiplicities and instabilities of life on earth, concepts such as planetarity, the Anthropocene, and even the global have provided...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 29–52.
Published: 01 May 2015
... marine invertebrates attached to it, I argue that these animals' position on two intersecting scales of moral worth—the sociozoologic scale and the phylogenetic scale—rendered them unworthy of moral consideration. Copyright: © Clark 2015 2015 This is an open access article distributed under...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 495–511.
Published: 01 July 2024
... scales helps highlight how they collectively contribute to a complex and nuanced history of a particular individual, community, or place. It considers the simultaneous existence and impact of multiple historical layers, emphasizing the interplay of different historical timescales and historical actors...
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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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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 418–432.
Published: 01 November 2017
... gendered, militaristic, and highly ritualized. Finally, I compare climate catastrophe at a global scale—the other sort and scale of emergency Antarctic people are occupied with—with how traditional field preparedness maps onto this potential disaster. In field training, Antarctic people counter the tropes...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 324–350.
Published: 01 November 2019
... estate capital that shape cities? And if so, can this be avoided? This article explores the operation of three large-scale site-specific artworks in New York City that suggest other logics by which botanically dominated spaces might operate in the city: a recent work by Mary Mattingly entitled Swale...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 149–171.
Published: 01 November 2016
... claim that in the Anthropocene, humans have become a geologic force. At the same time, it opens up a down-to-earth form of geopolitics that exceeds classic notions of the term, attending to different geologic scales; to living bodies, human and nonhuman; to solid rock; and to the planet. We develop our...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 60–83.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Louise Hornby Abstract This article focuses on works by the Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, who has recently produced a number of large-scale and immersive installations, such as Ice Watch (2014) and, most famously, The Weather Project (2003). His human-made environments situate the human subject...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 93–112.
Published: 01 May 2021
... to account for plant agency in gardens and to identify vegetal politics. The author builds on the methodological work of other scholars of human-plant relations and posthumanist notions of relational agency to develop a three-step method: (1) recognize plant time, (2) participate with plants, and (3) scale...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 372–390.
Published: 01 November 2021
... literatures can make important contributions to the scope of the energy humanities and need to be integrated into the field to grasp the full scale of current environmental crises. © 2021 Kent Linthicum, Mikaela Relford and Julia C. Johnson 2021 This is an open access article distributed under the terms...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 709–724.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Andrew Alan Johnson Abstract The Mekong River is experiencing a crisis, with water flows and flood cycles rendered unstable owing to large-scale hydropower development in China and Laos. As communities face the radical decline of fisheries and unexpected floods and ebbs, residents and regional NGOs...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 746–765.
Published: 01 November 2024
... recurrent peat fires. Since these fires cause regional air pollution, detrimental health effects, tremendous economic costs, and environmental impact on a global scale, the search for fire villains takes center stage. However, as this article shows, the causes of fires are basically unknowable. Not only do...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 39–61.
Published: 01 July 2023
... from topsoil, growing rice, and other improvisations for relating to soils that cascade to regenerate a livable world. This article discusses how the Japanese state utilizes temporal scales that orient its citizenry to a future associated with accelerated and intensified productivity as a sign...
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Seeing the Anthropocene through Montage: John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea and Elizabeth Price’s BERLINWAL
Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 530–553.
Published: 01 November 2024
.... Both works, though differing in medium, use montage as a structure to hold different materialities and multiple spatial and temporal scales, affording integration as well as confrontation. Their multifocal perceptions and multiple perspectives challenge ontologies and afford a decentering of the viewer...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 129–147.
Published: 01 May 2013
.... In conclusion, I submit that while technological and managerial approaches have a place in addressing ecological problems, our predicament primarily calls for a drastic pulling back and scaling down of the human presence—welcoming limitations of our numbers, economies, forms of habitation, and uses of land...
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