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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2022
... historicizes the casual and common understanding that humans are connected to the sea by investigating the precursors to the Homo aquaticus idea, the attempts to realize this prediction through technology, and the legacies emerging from it. Homo aquaticus and its allied visions, while animated by older...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 57–77.
Published: 01 May 2013
... on the natural history of the oceans, which helped establish her as a talented and trustworthy translator of scientific concepts into literary prose. This essay builds upon that idea, showing how Carson's The Sea Around Us (1951) and The Edge of the Sea (1955) not only shaped public understandings of ocean...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 280–301.
Published: 01 November 2019
... project to investigate the cultural influences and impacts of ecosystem change in coastal environments around the Irish Sea. A collaboration between environmental humanities and ecological sciences, the project sought a materialist intervention in the conceptualization and practice of ecosystem assessment...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 113–131.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Patrick D. Nunn Abstract As concern about sea level rise grows and optimal solutions are sought to address its causes and effects, little attention has been given to past analogs. This article argues that valuable insights into contemporary discussions about future sea level rise can be gained from...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 132–166.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and representability of sea ontologies, wet matter, and transcorporeal engagements with the more-than-human world. This work generally focuses on a universalized ocean (as nonhuman nature) rather than a geographically and culturally specific place (as history). The authors’ work turns the visual focus from the surface...
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Published: 01 May 2014
Figure 1 The Aral sea, once the fourth largest lake in the world, has shrunk by 90% and is now a graveyard of ships. Photograph “The Aral Sea Loses Its Eastern Lobe.” NASA Earth Observatory, September 26, 2014.
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 167–172.
Published: 01 May 2020
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 321–345.
Published: 01 May 2020
... ( 2018 ): 548 . Ortega Jordi . “ Clonación para el bucardo .” La Vanguardia , June 19 , 1998 . Paxson Heather , and Helmreich Stefan . “ The Perils and Promises of Microbial Abundance: Novel Natures and Model Ecosystems, from Artisanal Cheese to Alien Seas .” Social...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 232–235.
Published: 01 July 2023
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 183–200.
Published: 01 March 2024
... Talk: Conservation Humanities and the Future of Europe’s National Parks,” which focused on three European transboundary national park conglomerates: the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve at Wadden Sea, which strings together protected areas in Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands; Bavarian Forest and Šumava...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 40–59.
Published: 01 May 2017
... for land that led colonists and their descendants to want to push the shoreline out into the sea. As my inquiry deepens, other temporalities come into view alongside this colonial narrative. Formed around 300 million years ago in the Sydney area, the sandstone that was used to construct the seawall...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 8–29.
Published: 01 November 2023
... are divine beings, incarnations of the maritime god Ông Nam Hải (Lord of the South Sea)—also known as Cá Ông (Lord Fish)—who rescue people in distress at sea. When fishers find beached whales, they offer them elaborate funeral ceremonies and enshrine their bones in local temples. Whale worship constitutes...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 454–474.
Published: 01 November 2020
... on the sea floor, which are known as “whale falls.” It reads these ecosystems via a notion of “suspended ground,” which brings together philosopher Mick Smith’s rethinking of an ethics of encounter with unknown soil extinctions and Stacy Alaimo’s concept of “suspension.” The article argues that engaging...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 129–147.
Published: 01 May 2013
... and sea, so that humanity may flourish together with the entire breadth of Life. 16 The link between trade and biological decline has been documented for many specific cases (such a Brazilian and Indonesian rainforests), but has recently also been globally estimated. According to the research...
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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 (2023) 15 (3): 52–64.
Published: 01 November 2023
... one aspect of petro-time, the feeling of waiting. I articulate this feeling of waiting through the opera Sun & Sea (Marina) by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė, which explores the affective dimensions of climate change for those of us with the wealth and privilege that, so...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2024
... humanities take shape under the umbrella of the environmental humanities? This article examines the blue humanities to argue that its blues address colonial inheritances and critique colonial desires. Blue has long appealed to the colonial imaginary; it drew European ships across the seas to mine blue...
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in Submerged Bodies: The Tidalectics of Representability and the Sea in Caribbean Art
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 1. Tony Capellán, Mar invadido , 2015, detail. Found objects from the Caribbean Sea, 360 × 228 in. Installation view at Pérez Art Museum Miami. Photo by Oriol Tarridas. Courtesy of Pérez Art Museum Miami.
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in In Anticipation of Extirpation: How Ancient Peoples Rationalized and Responded to Postglacial Sea Level Rise
> Environmental Humanities
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
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in “Bringing Humanity Full Circle Back into the Sea”: Homo aquaticus , Evolution, and the Ocean
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 2. Cover of Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson’s Undersea Fleet , which shows two cadet divers from the Sub Sea Academy in the foreground and a woman riding an underwater creature behind them. Cover art by Ed “EMSH” Emshwiller; courtesy of the Emshwiller family. Copy provided
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