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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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Of Geosocial Relations and Separations: Detangling Violence across Scales of Extraction and Colonial Warfare
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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. Figure 1. A field of plastic boxes storing shale...
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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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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 (2025) 17 (1): 280–294.
Published: 01 March 2025
... cell phone battery in one of Apple’s manufacturing bases in China and later commercialization in the United States and Chile, where the lithium atom originated. The essay highlights lithium extraction’s different scales and geopolitics to reflect on how transnational technology companies design...
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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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Casual Planetarities: Choreographies, Resonance, and the Geologic Presence of People and Aquifers
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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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Uncharismatic Invasives
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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. 10 Rick Boatner, Personal Interview, 14 November 2013. 85 See, for example...
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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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Growing Methods: Developing a Methodology for Identifying Plant Agency and Vegetal Politics in the City
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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 (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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Down to Earth: Geosocialities and Geopolitics
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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 (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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On the Poverty of Our Nomenclature
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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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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 69–84.
Published: 01 May 2012
... the question of who is an authority on place contrasts in these two ecologically distinct places, and at different times in the period from 1945 to the present. The two cases demand very different scales of management, and build on different cultural traditions, but they share a surprising number...
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The Oedipal Logic of Ecological Awareness
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 7–21.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Timothy Morton Abstract The Anthropocene is the radical intersection of human history and geological time. Humans have belatedly realised that they have become a geophysical force on a planetary scale. This creeping realisation has an Oedipal logic, that is to say, it is a strange loop in which one...
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John Clare and the Manifold Commons
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 71–91.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Patrick Bresnihan Abstract There are growing and justifiable concerns about the degradation of the planet—the land, sea and atmosphere on which all life depends. While these problems unfold on a global scale they are not evenly distributed, either in terms of cause or effect. This has not stopped...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., the control that our conscious agency can exercise upon planetary transformation is very limited even over human time scales, let alone geologic ones. ME not only accounts for the origin of minerals, it also claims that their subsequent evolution can be predicted, not in detail but in general terms...
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