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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 November 2016
... more alive. This essay suggests that the development of sentience in the Phanerozoic eon exerted an emergent, autonomous influence on the interaction of minerals and life. Conscious human agency and its effects on planetary transformation are therefore the culmination of a very long process. However...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 457–474.
Published: 01 July 2022
... sentience unfold in such relations? Our answer, based on ethnography on-and-off salmon farms, is clearly yes. 24 As indicated in the story about the alevin, that farmed fish are confined to a tank and destined to be slaughtered does not preclude feelings of emotional attachment, even awe and wonder...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 93–109.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of sentience and agency. Far more interesting is the research of ethologists who ask questions that are both more simple and more complex: do animals (for example) experience an emotional life? Do animals have a sense of morality and justice? Do they experience empathy? Marc Bekoff is an outstanding figure...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 43–56.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., sentience and suffering. It also clarifies the position of humans in ecological processes, and in all of these things, with the relationships between humans and nature. American writer and anthropologist Richard Nelson writes of his ambivalence as a modern hunter, of one “so removed from the fundamental...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 371–384.
Published: 01 July 2024
... to describe this underlying level of psychic attunement as “Primary Perception,” a form of sentience shared by all living things and possibly even by inanimate objects. 1 The capacity of plants to respond to people’s thoughts has become known as the Backster effect, and, throughout the 1970s...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 348–371.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of readers and viewers become magnetized by the once arcane idea of plant communication? The past decade has given rise to a vast literature that interprets for popular audiences botanical research into forest sentience, forest suffering, and the capacity of plants to commune with one another. One possible...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 77–94.
Published: 01 May 2016
... normally identify with higher neural processes. Yet, in a sense, a bacterium can be said to have each of these properties.” 16 In a similar vein, recent work on plant intelligence has increasingly indicated the widespread existence of sentience and agency of diverse kinds. Plants emerge from this work...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 44–63.
Published: 01 March 2023
... trash as lively, yet, in another, dismisses people’s insistence on a mountain’s sentience or the agency of other worldly spirits.” 10 Dowsers seek material outcomes by attuning to the resonances of Earth Others, be they animate or inanimate, wild or domesticated, visible or invisible, mundane or rare...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 171–194.
Published: 01 May 2014
... , Dubordieu Denis , Donèche Bernard , and Lonvaud Aline . Handbook of Enology. Vol. 1, The Microbiology of Wine and Vinifications . Chichester : Wiley & Sons , 2006 . Roe Emma J. “ Ethics and the Non-Human: The Matterings of Animal Sentience in the Meat Industry .” In Taking...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 385–400.
Published: 01 July 2022
... in the boreal forest, sakâwiyiniwak (Northern Bush Cree) research collaborators have taught me about an ethics of care for the landscape based on its sentience. Tending to protocols of respect and reciprocity illuminates the magic of woolly underleaves, insectivorous plants, and aspen bones...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 7–21.
Published: 01 May 2012
... for sentience and intelligence. We are a kind of illusion, yet this is known at the very same time as we know that we are part of Earth, deeply implicated in it. This chiasmic, crossroads-like movement describes a moment at which we see that we are both artificial and ‘natural’ at the very same time...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 303–320.
Published: 01 July 2022
... research on plant sentience to designing video games in which players have access to a mythic world of endless resources. Most of the characters’ stories intersect at some point in the novel, although not all do. Of these nine characters, they seem to be either white or Asian, and The Overstory has...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 267–284.
Published: 01 May 2020
... qualities such as sentience. See Animal Liberation , 178–79 , as well as to a lesser extent Nussbaum’s application of the Capabilities approach to sentient animals in Frontiers of Justice . 14. This necessitates that we “make time for soil care,” as Puig de la Bellacasa has argued. See Matters...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 291–308.
Published: 01 July 2024
... translated as soul, the akaa is not so much the unitary first-person consciousness of Platonic or Abrahamic metaphysics as an active principle and complement that stands beside—and acts through—the bodies and sentience of all living beings. As Basiya Otmar, a titleholder from the village of Godo Olo...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 441–459.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of the creative efforts of the filmmakers to endow it with sentience. Indeed, as Pippa Marland argues in a recent essay, The Majestic Plastic Bag derives much of its humor from the overt ludicrousness of the idea of the bag as a creature, a species with its own cycle of life. This ironic zoomorphism, which...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 111–127.
Published: 01 May 2013
... on reason or intellect could lead to the negation of rights for infants and other “marginal cases,” that is, humans with conditions that cause them to fall outside the category of those who possess reason. Sentience casts a broader net that “...will spill over the species boundary, so to speak...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 93–112.
Published: 01 May 2021
... as a researcher working in a Euro-Western paradigm. Plants are different from humans. We evidently do not share language or sentience, a nervous system or the same cellular structure. Plants are autotrophs and perform photosynthesis, turning the sun’s energy into carbon, absorbing nutrients and water they need...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 211–229.
Published: 01 March 2024
... would be beyond the scope of field studies of insects, “killing methods” is highly salient here and invites comparisons across the various methods we employ in this study. Bear highlights similar ethical issues among farmers raising insects for food: potential insect sentience and experience of pain...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 281–300.
Published: 01 November 2021
... environments. As Julie Cruikshank’s powerful engagement with Indigenous peoples and sciences in Canada’s Yukon makes clear, watching ice was a practice long before London existed. So too was listening to it, making memories with it, and storying its movements and sentience. 73 When Sheila Watt-Cloutier...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 351–372.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of violence and dispossession. It is also linked to the disavowal of indigenous epistemologies and ontologies that take seriously the sentience and political agency of more-than-human beings. 21 While many of my Peruvian colleagues and interlocutors do take seriously the legacies of colonial violence...
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