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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 407–430.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of “alterlivability,” a design philosophy grounded in permaculture ethics. Drawing on two novels by ecofeminist writer Starhawk— The Fifth Sacred Thing (1994) and City of Refuge (2016)—the article explores the genre of speculative design fiction for its insights into prototyping more livable futures...
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Becoming Mutant: Metamorphoses for a Waterworld
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 29–48.
Published: 01 March 2022
... with watery ecologies, then, also involves attention to speculative climate fictions (cli-fi) and the potential worlds they help fathom. Cli-fi renderings of climate disaster provide critical insight into possible alternative arrangements of power, meaning, and ontological status. As such, this article...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 321–345.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Adam Searle Abstract The spectacle of de-extinction is often forward facing at the interface of science fiction and speculative fact, haunted by extinction’s pasts. Missing from this discourse, however, is a robust theorization of de-extinction in the present. This article presents recent...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 571–589.
Published: 01 November 2024
... fiction tropes to produce philosophical fables that are SF in Haraway’s sense: speculative fabulations, practices of worlding and making kin. Through various devices (metafiction, irony, fragmentariness, unreliable narrators, and constant authorial intrusion), Vonnegut destabilizes the fictional character...
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Weird
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 275–280.
Published: 01 May 2021
... and Enhances the Growth of Melanized Fungi .” PLoS One 2 , no. 5 ( 2007 ): e457 . de Freitas Elizabeth , and Truman Sarah E. “ New Empiricisms in the Anthropocene: Thinking with Speculative Fiction About Science and Social Inquiry .” Qualitative Inquiry , August 6 , 2020 . doi.org...
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Albedo
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 475–477.
Published: 01 November 2021
... —into a creative practice of imagining. Borrowing from speculative fiction, albedo as a speculative concept invites people to envision how things could be otherwise: What if the planet did not look like the one we know today? What difference would this make for life and living today? Harnessing...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 203–216.
Published: 01 May 2014
... for such fictional explorations than science fiction. As a speculative mode of narration, science fiction imagines possible alternative and future worlds that can be either utopian or dystopian in nature. It is “a fictive practice” that, in the words of Tom Moylan, “has the formal potential to re-envision...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 268–279.
Published: 01 March 2025
... Life ; Fornazzari, Speculative Fictions . 42. Svampa et al., “Transiciones justas para América Latina.” 43. Velasco-Herrejón, Bauwens, and Calisto Friant, “Challenging Dominant Sustainability Worldviews,” 2 . References Altabe Ricardo , Braunstein José...
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“Bringing Humanity Full Circle Back into the Sea”: Homo aquaticus , Evolution, and the Ocean
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2022
... , 956 – 1027 . Freud Sigmund . A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis . New York : H. Liveright , 1920 . Garforth Linda . “ Environmental Futures, Now and Then: Crisis, Systems Modeling, and Speculative Fiction .” Osiris 34 , no. 1 ( 2019 ): 238 – 57 . Haldane J. B...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 473–500.
Published: 01 November 2018
... enterprise, since this category includes a range of styles and genres. These nineteen works include the following genres (at least): realist literature, young adult fiction, noir, thriller, satire, postapocalyptic fiction, science fiction, speculative fiction, and weird fiction. They are set in the recent...
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Art for a Future Planet: Beyond Apocalypse
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 159–180.
Published: 01 May 2021
... will be born out of glaciers, into the vertigo of eternity.” Rosero’s work is a speculative experiment in the use of technology—the climate-controlled capsule—to cultivate plants in extremely cold environments; it is, in part, a fictional intervention into current research on food production in space being...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 37–56.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., and unbearable consequences of contemporary political and economic arrangements. As power continues to function predictably, perhaps it is time to scale up the scope of our imaginings while engaging in concrete practices of care in multispecies worlds. Science fictions and speculative fabulations...
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Foreword: A Wrinkle in Space
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 300–308.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., West Park Pictures , 2005 . Hopkins Curt . “ African Space Programs Aren’t Science Fiction .” okayafrica , May 20 , 2013 . www.okayafrica.com/news/african-space-programs-arent-science-fiction/ . Hustak Carla , and Myers Natasha . “ Involutionary Momentum: Affective...
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Expansionism, Extremism, and Exceptionalism in Life: Boltzmann Brains as a Transdisciplinary Methodology
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 341–358.
Published: 01 November 2017
... a very speculative thought experiment. Why should we care about the challenges that they might pose for inclusionary and exclusionary dynamics, or even life itself, when there is no chance of ever encountering them? What makes them, in this sense, different from any other sort of fictional entities...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 49–70.
Published: 01 March 2022
... that make up landscapes. These convergences, first identified through tracking, are then explored through the more distributed analytic of gathering. Inspired by Ursula LeGuin’s call to describe stories of gatherers and collectives in her “Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction,” the article argues that thinking...
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Skin
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 261–264.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and nonhuman entanglement. What is the central subject of Chicken Skins : the flowers (content) or the skin (frame)? Which frames which? To whom does skin belong: human or nonhuman, animal or plant, viewer or viewed? Yi’s speculative multispecies skin ecology confounds the boundaries of natural and artificial...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 202–215.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Allan Poe’s “Murders in the Rue Morgue,” and Aimé Césaire’s “Des crocs.” Jackson spans genres and disciplines, discussing nineteenth-century slave narratives, realist and speculative fiction, and contemporary visual artists. Her book’s wide scope and theoretical approach—a reexamination of philosophers...
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Myxomatosis and Radioactivity in Carlos Saura’s La caza ( The Hunt , 1966): On Biopolitics and Extinction
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 129–144.
Published: 01 March 2022
... main motivation for organizing this hunt was to borrow money from businessman Paco. José also invited Luis, a science fiction fan and alcoholic, while Paco invited his family member Enrique, the youngest man in the group. Juan and his niece, Carmen (Violeta García), bring ferrets with them to scare...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 25–43.
Published: 01 March 2023
... fewer triumphs than snares and delusions; full of spaceships that get stuck, missions that fail, and people who don’t understand.” 63 We need new stories to reimagine the ecologies beyond our planet. The outlined feminist speculative imaginary, which spans science and fiction, proposes...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 95–117.
Published: 01 May 2016
... turn. 6 As a third pole, triangulating the imaginal horizon of this essay, I put both in conversation with the work of Ursula K. Le Guin—on the tacit understanding that speculative fiction is a discipline of the otherwise-possible and, thus, a cognate to anthropology. 7 What kind of critter might...
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