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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 250–266.
Published: 01 May 2020
...-growing cities. As a counterpoint to the current situation, the article first examines how the hard-surfacing of Paris, in the nineteenth century, sought to background the vital qualities of soils in urban areas, making their absence seem perfectly stable and natural. It then shows how the new urban soil...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 29–48.
Published: 01 March 2022
...L. D. Mattson; Jeremy Gordon Abstract Reimagining human-nature relationships in the climate change era conjures mutants, creatures from the deep that help surface modes of becoming for a drenched world of rising tides, plastic oceans, and soaked cities. Re-imaging deep, embodied relations...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 190–202.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Jerry Zee Abstract This article considers the collision of earthly and monetary phase shifts. It situates itself in Richmond, British Columbia, a seam where multiple and disparate processes of landing collaborate in the ongoing transformation and modulation of the earth’s surface. It poses...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 512–528.
Published: 01 July 2024
... how contaminated environments like the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, where the Babushkas live, invite an interpretative move that models what Paul Ricoeur and, more recently, Rita Felski have problematized as the hermeneutics of suspicion. Such a move involves a mistrust of what is at the surface, calling...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of mobility, called the living root bridge. The recalcitrant materiality of Jri Bamon surfaces through each of these human-plant encounters, providing pathways for those who would engage with it on its own terms. [email protected] © 2024 Aparajita Majumdar 2024 This is an open access article...
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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 (2019) 11 (1): 216–238.
Published: 01 May 2019
... these works, Straube explores the meaning of this correlation between ticks and transing bodies for environmental ethics as well as for the forging of livable lives for trans people. Toxicity surfaces as a link in these works. The notion of feminist figuration, developed by philosopher Rosi Braidotti among...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 132–166.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and representability of sea ontologies, wet matter, and transcorporeal engagements with the more-than-human world. This work generally focuses on a universalized ocean (as nonhuman nature) rather than a geographically and culturally specific place (as history). The authors’ work turns the visual focus from the surface...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 21–44.
Published: 01 May 2021
... the oil industry’s transformations of US landscapes and communities. Central to this depiction is Orff’s use of the line, a form essential to visualization technique. Orff’s lines go deep rather than “look across” surfaces to tell stories of growth, fragmentation, toxicity, and displacement. Detailing...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 475–477.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Julianne Yip © 2021 Julianne Yip 2021 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Albedo is a measure of surface reflectivity. It is the ratio of sunlight reflected by a surface to the amount absorbed. 1 Freshly fallen...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 40–59.
Published: 01 May 2017
... by generations but the ‘sedimentation’ of that work as the condition of arrival for future generations.” 8 Trees sprout from the anthropogenic soil of the reclamation, and their fallen leaves form humus. Plants, buildings, and infrastructure spread across the surface and subsurface, exaggerating...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 478–494.
Published: 01 July 2024
.... Here material and representation come together: bitumen extraction is the subject of the image, but bitumen is also the light-sensitive material used to make the photograph. The image is striking and seductive: a monochromatic wash of glowing golden light set on a reflective surface of polished...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 230–254.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... Moore, “Art in the After.” 58. Ibid. 59. Haraway, “Situated Knowledges,” 582. 60. Derrida, “Plato’s Pharmacy,” 75. 61. Broglio, Surface Encounters , xvii. 62. Ibid. 63. Wilson, Gut Feminism , 71; Gilbert, Sapp, and Tauber, “Symbiotic View of Life.” 64...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 266–283.
Published: 01 November 2023
... .” Philosophy of Science 67 , no. S3 ( 2000 ): S72 – S86 . Kroepsch Adrianne C. “ Groundwater Modeling and Governance: Contesting and Building (Sub)Surface Worlds in Colorado’s Northern San Juan Basin .” Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 4 ( 2018 ): 43 – 66 . Lempert Michael...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 267–284.
Published: 01 May 2020
... to their positioning below them. 6 In erosion’s aftermath, soil capabilities to support diverse forms of life tend to decline. Hard and bare surfaces remain, resisting plant growth apart from tough biological crusts. I propose to think through soil integrity in this article. I see soil integrity as the capacity...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 285–287.
Published: 01 May 2020
... by Anna Krzywoszynska and Greta Marchesi speak powerfully to the emergence of a new chapter in Environmental Humanities: a weaving together of sciences, social sciences, relationality, materiality, and multispecies relations in a manner that surfaces partnership-based processes rather than object-based...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 236–239.
Published: 01 July 2023
... .” International Journal of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Environment 15 , no. 3 ( 2001 ): 163 – 76 . McNeill Jodi . “ Tailings Ponds: The Worst Is Yet to Come .” Pembina Institute , October 10 , 2017 . https://www.pembina.org/blog/tailings-ponds-worst-yet-come . Schept Judah...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 273–294.
Published: 01 May 2018
...” planetary surface. Accordingly, however much we undertake the most rigorous risk assessments, ultimately any intervention takes place in a context of uncertainty or undecidability. For, with any significant innovation—and especially one involving a novel interchange with a new and “enigmatic” stratum...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 173–178.
Published: 01 May 2020
... knowledge. Held beneath the wet surface, an object appears closer than it really is. We also sit onshore, and later at our computers, summoning up the oceanic through our tapping fingers. Bodies are “portable laboratories” and measuring devices, 8 but not only in the sense of arms outstretched. Since...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2022
... that human minds and hands, untethered from the surface, would be essential for coming undersea industries. Divers needed long decompression stops after deeper and longer dives, to allow accumulated nitrogen gas to dissipate so that divers did not get sick. Experiments with so-called saturation diving aimed...
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