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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 36–57.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., and the context within which Plath encountered it, namely, as a student of botany at Smith College conducting lab exercises on photosynthesis using the South African silverleaf geranium ( Pelargonium sidoides ). Through archival research on Plath and botanical instruction at the college, the essay shows...
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Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 1. Bell jars in use at Lyman Conservatory, Smith College, 2022. Photograph by the author. More
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 233–236.
Published: 01 March 2022
... like to thank Sarah Jackson and the anonymous reviewers for their invaluable feedback. 1. Ardam, “Releasing Daphne,” 90 . 2. Ovid, Metamorphoses , 203, 20, 250 . 3. Other instances of contemporary arboromorphism include Smith’s Autumn and Powers’ Overstory . 4...
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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 (2016) 7 (1): 41–58.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Matthew MacLellan Abstract This article argues that Garrett Hardin's primary object of critique in his influential “The Tragedy of the Commons” is not the commons or shared property at all—as is almost universally assumed by Hardin's critics—but is rather Adam Smith's theory of markets and its...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 117–146.
Published: 01 May 2013
... alone: their efforts were seeded by the white abolitionist, Gerrit Smith; fertilized by the utopian socialist communes that covered the Northeast in the 1840s; and nurtured by abolitionists, both black and white. To United States environmental history, I add two threads less frequently seen: African...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 245–263.
Published: 01 May 2021
...James L. Smith Abstract This article explores the nature of remembering as a lake, with a lake, or through a lake; the differential relationships, knowledge, and perspectives contained within; and the potentially troubling implications found at the intersection of scientific and humanistic...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 175–179.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Mark Vardy; Mick Smith Copyright © 2017 Mark Vardy and Mick Smith 2017 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Resilience has rapidly become the most used and abused term in contemporary policy and decision making...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 21–41.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Mick Smith Abstract How might a posthumanist notion of ecological community attempt to address questions concerning extinction? Such irredeemable losses are explicated through four aspects of ecological/community relations—material manifestation (appearances), material involvement (effects...
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Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 2. Plant Physiology Lab, featuring a Wardian case (right), Ganong (left), and students using bell jars and other botanical apparatuses, Smith College, ca. 1904. Photograph by Katherine Elizabeth McClellan. CA-MS-00104, Buildings Records, College Archives, Smith College Special Collections. More
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Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 5. Ganong (left) with students and Pelargonium plants in the Plant Physiology House, 1910. Bell jars covered in paper sit on a table on right. Photograph by Katherine Elizabeth McClellan. Buildings Records, College Archives, Smith College Special Collections. More
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 1. Soilkin exercise #1: Stone heat transfer event (2020). Fluxus-inspired instructions as meme, dimensions and media variable. In reference to Ken Friedman, Heat Transfer Event , 1970, reproduced in Friedman, Smith, and Sawchyn, Fluxus Performance Workbook , 42. More
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 8. Soilkin exercise #8: Possible Flux performance for the post-Anthropocene (2020). Fluxus-inspired instructions as meme, dimensions and media variable. In reference to Luce Fierens, Possible Flux Performances or Postfluxgames , 1987, reproduced in Friedman, Smith, and Sawchyn More
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 9. Soilkin exercise #9: Practice reciprocity (2020). Fluxus-inspired instructions as meme, dimensions and media variable. In reference to Peter Frank’s Thank You Piece , n.d., reproduced in Friedman, Smith, and Sawchyn, Fluxus Performance Workbook , 37: “Thank you / [repeat fifteen More
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Published: 01 November 2023
reproduced in Friedman, Smith, and Sawchyn, Fluxus Performance Workbook , 67 and 86, respectively. More
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 277–281.
Published: 01 May 2014
... ecological systems relies on interspecies connectivities, issues like extinction, biodiversity and conservation become epistemic—if we lose a species, we might irrevocably damage a multispecies way of knowing through becoming-with, diminishing what Mick Smith has termed the “species of possibilities...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 119–139.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Figure 1. Soilkin exercise #1: Stone heat transfer event (2020). Fluxus-inspired instructions as meme, dimensions and media variable. In reference to Ken Friedman, Heat Transfer Event , 1970, reproduced in Friedman, Smith, and Sawchyn, Fluxus Performance Workbook , 42. ...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 267–284.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Smith, 2011. 1 More than 4.4 billion tons of soil have been lost to erosion since the colonization of Australia, 2 largely owing to agriculture, 3 and the clearing of vegetation. Topsoil in Australia is typically fragile, weathered, shallow, 4 and low in nutrients. Large areas...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 142–161.
Published: 01 March 2024
... : University of Minnesota Press , 2017 . Skinner Jonathan . “ Particular Attention: Lorine Niedecker’s Natural Histories .” In Willis , Radical Vernacular , 41 – 59 . Smith James L. “ Anxieties of Access: Remembering as a Lake .” Environmental Humanities 13 , no. 1 ( 2021...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 27–51.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of “legitimate” black political action. Photography’s role in the pathologizing of blackness cannot be extricated from its use as a tool of normalizing whiteness. Visual theorist, Shawn Michelle Smith writes, “As scientists made race observable in bodies of color, using photography to encode and inscribe...