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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 205–226.
Published: 01 May 2020
... innovations in agricultural and chemical science, Justus von Liebig’s chemical model of soil fertility involved a profound reenvisioning of organic development, distilling complex processes to a series of chemical relationships easily recognized in any geographic context. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s (1984...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 285–287.
Published: 01 May 2020
... in the Anthropocene where the tools of mastery—over people, plants, microbes, and molecules—have devastated agricultural soils. What conceptual tools can take down the logics and rationales of the Anthropocene’s mastery over nature—in respect of agricultural soils? The papers in this special section edited...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 39–61.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Mankei Tam Abstract This article explores soil and the multiple pathways it has provided for the coconstitution of forms of life that might be possible following the Fukushima nuclear fallout. In Iitate, a former evacuation zone where radiation still lingers, farmers and concerned citizens deploy...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 119–139.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Alexandra Regan Toland Abstract Drawing on ideas from the history and philosophy of soil science, Fluxus performance, and queer-feminist STS, this article responds to a question posed by environmental researcher Hugo Reinert: “What modes of passionate immersion—or love, or intimacy—could a stone...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 267–284.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Anne Therese O’Brien Abstract The growing adoption of no-till cropping and other minimal-impact farming practices in recent decades signals a shift in how soil is understood and valued. Eschewing vigorous disturbance, standard in the West (and beyond) since the Neolithic Revolution, farmers instead...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 250–266.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Germain Meulemans Abstract This article examines the rise of urban soils as a topic of scientific inquiry and ecological engineering in France, and questions how new framings of soil as a material that can be designed reconfigure relationships between urban life and soils in a context of fast...
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in “Skin of the Earth”: On Soil, Collaboration, and Temporality after Fukushima
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 July 2023
Figure 2. Temporary storage facility in Iitate for black bags of contaminated soil, 2017. Photograph by the author.
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 4. Soilkin exercise #4: Soil knowledge-transfer event #1 (2020). Fluxus-inspired instructions as meme, dimensions and media variable. In reference to Joel Tauber, Seven Attempts to Make a Ritual , 2000.
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 5. Soilkin exercise #5: Soil knowledge-transfer event #2 (2020). Fluxus-inspired instructions as meme, dimensions and media variable. In reference to Ana Mendieta, Silueta Series , 1973–80; and Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, Dirty Wedding to the Soil , 2014.
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 6. Soilkin exercise #6: Observe a soil (2020). Fluxus-inspired instructions as meme, dimensions and media variable. In reference to herman de vries, this earth , 2018; and Newton Harrison / Harrison Studio, Making Earth (raking, digging, eating) , 1970.
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in Ethical Acknowledgment of Soil Ecosystem Integrity amid Agricultural Production in Australia
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 5. CT scan of soil core samples from depths of 25–45 cm. (Top) Undisturbed soil. (Bottom) Soil disturbed by one occasion of compaction fourteen years earlier is shown in 2013. Courtesy of Lamandé et al.
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 190–204.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Anna Krzywoszynska; Greta Marchesi Abstract As environmental matters, soils have been an object of inquiry primarily for the natural sciences, with social scientists and environmental humanities scholars occupied with the surface dramas of territory and its products. The invisibility of soils...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 227–249.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Anna Krzywoszynska Abstract With soils increasingly seen as living ecosystems, the understanding of the relationship between soils and agricultural labor is changing. A shift from working the soil to working with the soil is hoped to deliver a true ecological modernization of capitalist agriculture...
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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 (2022) 14 (3): 499–521.
Published: 01 November 2022
... these trajectories during slavery and after abolition, the article focuses on two dynamics: the use of chemicals to augment soil fertility and manage cotton’s ecologies, and the deployment of chemicals to protect cotton monocultures. In both instances, the manipulations of cotton’s ecologies and biophysical...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 104–118.
Published: 01 November 2023
... implicated in Germany’s toxic history as silent witnesses but had also helped remediate the soils over time. [email protected] [email protected] © 2023 Caroline Ektander and Jonas Stuck 2023 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 501–527.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Jennifer Mae Hamilton; Astrida Neimanis Abstract Composting is a material labor whereby old scraps are transformed—through practices of care and attention—into nutrient-rich new soil. In this provocation, we develop “composting” as a material metaphor to tell a particular story about...
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in Nonhuman Labor and the Making of Resources: Making Soils a Resource through Microbial Labor
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 1. RIP Plough , a statue shown during Groundswell in 2018. Groundswell is a farmers’ conference for promoting no-tillage and other sustainable soil management methods. Photograph by Alex Cherry; used with permission.
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in Decentralized Production and Affective Economies: Theorizing the Ecological Implications of Localism
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 1. The OSE compressed earth brick press creates bricks with high thermal mass from raw soil for use in passive solar construction. Image courtesy of Open Source Ecology (CC-BY-SA).
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 3–26.
Published: 01 May 2019
.... 3 At once an illegible, 4 out-of-the-way place, 5 and an “other” America, 6 life grows in and of these ruins. Established at the turn of the new millennium, Clearwater Creek is a millennial venture—a utopian project actively cultivating a world to come, in the soiled space between...
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