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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 (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): 227–249.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and their political capacities. 23 The labor involved in the processes of resource making is oriented toward the achievement of specific resource materialities; the object of labor is to achieve specific relational qualities. The quality which matters most in relation to agrarian soils is fertility: soils...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 1–18.
Published: 01 July 2023
... at a higher price point. On the other hand, forgoing agrochemical pesticides helps to keep the soil fertile. Letting fungi and plants grow together seems like a win-win situation, although the profit margin of this plant-blight alliance is rather thin. The usefulness of tea mosquito bugs is less...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 321–340.
Published: 01 July 2022
... soils along some riverbanks. And perhaps such fertile soils, she continued, might have nourished some large trees, including some that possibly offered edible fruits to the first humans who settled in the basin many thousands of years ago. There was evidence, Margaret added, that humans disposed...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 117–146.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of the industrialized world's soil fertility as proof. Marx came to focus his critique in what he called the “metabolic rift”—the gap between how quickly capitalist societies expropriated soil fertility and how slowly natural process built it back up. And because he was, after all, Karl Marx, he further argued...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 250–266.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., and public works, and how this changed the way they do science. As fertile soils are growingly referred to as a scarce and fast disappearing resource, scientists and engineers start regarding constructed soil as a fertile material that can be grown, transported and sold. Up until the nineteenth...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 3–26.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of compost. Figure 1. A landscape of multispecies mutualism. Photo by author. Figure 1. A landscape of multispecies mutualism. Photo by author. Compost is fertile as both a material and a metaphor. Soil in the making, compost is constituted by layers of organic matter breaking down...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 267–284.
Published: 01 May 2020
... the grass was going dormant, so it would not compete with the crop for nutrients and water. Sheep lightly grazed the field prior to planting, providing fertilization and a moderate level of disturbance, but not enough to compromise the continuity or the vigor of the living soil matrix. The seeds were...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 125–148.
Published: 01 May 2014
... for them was “fertile soil” but waste matter, worm castings. As a vermicomposter, you may use the worms' casting for growing plants. And you may use it to grow new food. In vermicomposting feeding * is crucial. This entails making good decisions about which foods to use, but equally important...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 149–170.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of modern agriculture, including loss of soil fertility, reliance on chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and livestock health. These lectures eventually became known as ‘biodynamic’ agriculture, described as a “spiritual-ethical-ecological approach” which seeks to “integrate ecological, social and economic...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 421–446.
Published: 01 November 2018
... management that nursery workers perform on seeds. 23 These include, for instance, the way workers stroke the plants, regularly water them, heal them by removing parasitic abnormalities, nourish their soil environment with fertilizer, and notice seedlings’ morphological particularities. Knowledge-as-vision...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 159–173.
Published: 01 November 2023
... that he had borrowed from his contemporary, German soil scientist Justus von Liebig, who argued that declining soil fertility was caused by disruptions to its metabolic cycle: in exporting agricultural produce to urban areas without importing human metabolic wastes, farmers were also stripping the land...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 86–106.
Published: 01 May 2018
... increasing them. We have enough rain. It’s the poison in the land. The soil is fertile but the poisonous material that came from the projectiles, it spread in the land. Millions of projectiles fell on us in the South with hundreds of kilos of TNT. Where did it go? . . . Where did it go? Abu Jaʿfar’s...
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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 (2012) 1 (1): 141–154.
Published: 01 May 2012
... obtains sustenance from the plant. But a mycorrhizal fungus is not just selfish in its eating. It brings the plant water and makes minerals from the surrounding soil available for its host. Fungi can even bore into rocks, making their mineral elements available for plant growth. In the long history...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 419–437.
Published: 01 July 2022
... the land recover from the impact of agriculture. Tilling the soil, removing scrubs, applying fertilizers but limiting their use, and implementing reasonable fallow periods in consideration of economic pressures are all actions intended to help the land give you back crops. The idea of giving as a mutual...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 180–193.
Published: 01 May 2019
.... The toxicity of the air, the clouds, the rain and the snow; of the oceans and their diminishing fish and crustacean populations; of chemically fertilized soil and the fruit it bears—this pervasive and multifarious elemental toxicity is also in us. The outside slips in when we inhale and ingest it, the body’s...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 240–244.
Published: 01 November 2016
... dimensions of the past and the present. This essay is also therefore an invitation to foster dialogue and cross-fertilization between environmental humanities and the transversal and engaged agenda of future studies. As climate modeling and socioecological scenario making increasingly require us to live...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 May 2013
... fertile soils demand greater inputs of petroleum-based fertilizers, worked by heavier, more compacting, more gas-guzzling machinery. 45 More profoundly, Jess's expulsion, whatever readers think of him, signifies the loss of counterhegemonic perspectives—a loss compounded by the statistical...
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