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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 83–103.
Published: 01 November 2023
...- and gaps-based methodology allows communities and researchers to enter and transform each other’s stories. We offer a simulation model that fosters collaborative storytelling and give examples from the storytelling and social-environmental action projects that have emerged over three years of partnership...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 433–458.
Published: 01 November 2021
... into social tipping points that can feed into any assessment of how to trigger coordinated, paradigm-shifting action across the whole of society. Global assessment of environmental crisis : The GEAs suggested above all highlight worldviews, doctrines, and VMEPs as a necessary precursor to discussion...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 261–276.
Published: 01 May 2014
... the humanities and social sciences. In order to realize this potential, scholars in the environmental humanities need to map the common ground on which close interdisciplinary cooperation will be possible. This essay takes up this task with regard to two fields that have embraced the environmental humanities...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 1–40.
Published: 01 May 2016
... that complicated and multifaceted environmental phenomena can be reduced to fast, simple, evocative, invasive narratives that percolate through science, legislation, policy and civic action, and to examine how these narratives can drown out rather than open up possibilities for novel social-ecological engagements...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 71–91.
Published: 01 May 2013
... powerful and universalizing explanations about why ‘our planet’ is being exhausted, and how ‘we’ must respond with urgent action. One of the effects of this response is that environmental problems are naturalized as empirical facts around which new forms of governance and regulation must emerge. While...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of shared time, thus precluding the possibility of organized resistance. I argue that, despite the unprecedented challenges faced by the “we” that Balog's project calls to action, the form of sociality produced by the technologies on which the EIS relies has its own political potential. This last part...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 219–232.
Published: 01 March 2022
... emphasizes the connections between environmental and social justice actions. As she put it in her Nobel Lecture: “I would like to call on young people to commit themselves to activities that contribute toward achieving their long-term dreams. They have the energy and creativity to shape a sustainable future...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 213–220.
Published: 01 May 2014
... (2013). 2 John Barry, Environment and Social Theory (New York: Routledge, 2007). 1 Deborah Bird Rose et al., “Thinking Through the Environment, Unsettling the Humanities,” Environmental Humanities 1 (2012). See also Robyn Eckersley, “ The Death of Nature and the Birth...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 142–161.
Published: 01 July 2023
... Thatcher Environmental humanities scholars often define the modes of environmental flourishing they promote in explicit opposition to neoliberalism. They counter the weakness of environmental actions “based on ‘the market’” with “environmental values” fostered by “forms of vital sociality that can...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 27–51.
Published: 01 May 2019
... all reinforce her isolation and disconnection from the viewer. Each of the compositional choices described here works to position the viewer as an invisible onlooker safely removed, environmentally and socially, from the landscape. The fence-line photo, then, can subtly ascribe a position...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 473–500.
Published: 01 November 2018
... for a number of reasons. As ecocritic Antonia Mehnert notes, literature explicitly focused on climate change “gives insight into the ethical and social ramifications of this unparalleled environmental crisis, reflects on current political conditions that impede action on climate change, explores how risk...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 149–166.
Published: 01 May 2017
... attention to the positive fallout of spontaneous cross-class contact, I claim, complicates the proprietary, insular, and paranoid logics prevalent in much popular environmental discourse. Delany’s text, which decenters both intention and identity in its definition of the social, limns the contours...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 233–260.
Published: 01 May 2014
... arenas than do humanities subjects. The same can be said of particular social science fields, such as environmental economics. By surveying the wider, febrile geoscience landscape in which the Anthropocene proposition is situated, I reveal opportunities for “engaged-analysis.” This involves...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 8–29.
Published: 01 November 2023
... empirical research on the ways in which purportedly animist ontologies relate to ecological knowledge and translate into ethical and political action. The present article constitutes one attempt to meet that need, investigating ritual responses to social and environmental change within one particular...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 579–583.
Published: 01 November 2022
... that make potential futures actionable now. 6 Some are explicit, others tacit. Which life-forms and environmental entities are (not) candidates for assessment and intervention in the first place? Which, among the chosen, are prioritized for robust forms of protection and expensive interventions versus...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 419–437.
Published: 01 July 2022
... social and ecological crisis. As reflected by a growing academic interest in this topic care remains an omnipresent and yet elusive concept. 1 Care can materialize in relations of domination as much as solidarity. This is because care is not simply a moral imperative but also a practical action...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 501–527.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and undermines the potential for environmental humanities to build alternative worlds. To conclude, we propose feminist composting as a methodology to be taken up further. We call for an inclusive feminist composting that insists on feminism’s imbrication with social justice projects of all kinds, at the same...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 240–244.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., action, and sense of justice, 8 despite what those entrenched in the Enlightenment philosophical tradition and the epistemology of modern deterministic science might continue to argue. Too often, instead of in the futures of nature, environmentalism has found its justification in a narrative...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 371–374.
Published: 01 July 2022
... intentions to engage in that issue and take political action than did the news clip. This follows a glorious tradition of deploying comedy to challenge the status quo: François Rabelais’s carnivalesque writing during the Renaissance, unsettling established social binaries; Dick Gregory’s monologues...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 433–440.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of analysis, the five contributions—combining perspectives from ecocriticism, environmental philosophy, film studies, visual arts, and history—showcase alternative presents and futures of living responsibly with a permanently polluted planet. Writing from the perspective of hazardous hope, the section’s...
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