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Urban Pedogeneses: The Making of City Soils from Hard Surfacing to the Urban Soil Sciences
Open Access
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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Wild Faces
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 154–169.
Published: 01 March 2025
... comes into play, how can an ethics be worked out that takes those creatures we denominate “animals” into account? For a species who communicates primarily through human languages, the face is the prime semiotic surface, but for animals who communicate with one another through what we term calls, howls...
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Becoming Mutant: Metamorphoses for a Waterworld
Open Access
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 (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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Drawing the Line on Oil in Petrochemical America
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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 (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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Toxic Bodies: Ticks, Trans Bodies, and the Ethics of Response-Ability in Art and Activist Writing
Open Access
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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Albedo
Open Access
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
... moving across the surface of the water and still be aware of the others around it, even though there are other patterns of movement subtending them—the large, slow movement of the swell, ripples generated by the breeze, and small waves running back from where the swell breaks on the wall. Focusing your...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 478–494.
Published: 01 July 2024
... 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 aluminum. Bitumen was used as the light-sensitive material to produce the earliest known...
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The Political Life of Cancer: Beatriz da Costa’s Dying for the Other and Anti-cancer Survival Kit
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 230–254.
Published: 01 November 2017
... and Wolff, eds., Writing Otherwise . 21. da Costa, Invisible Earthlings (2008–9). 22. Paxson, “Post-Pasteurian Cultures,” 18. 23. Paxson, “Microbiopolitics,” 119–20. 24. Ronald Broglio theorizes “surfaces” as “sites of productive engagement with the animal world”; Broglio...
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Casual Planetarities: Choreographies, Resonance, and the Geologic Presence of People and Aquifers
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 266–283.
Published: 01 November 2023
... , 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 , and Carr E...
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Ethical Acknowledgment of Soil Ecosystem Integrity amid Agricultural Production in Australia
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 267–284.
Published: 01 May 2020
... scarifier used by Colin Seis to plant annual crops into a perennial pasture, 2013. Courtesy of Anne O’Brien. The presence of a diversity of perennial native grasses throughout the year ensures that the soil surface is protected and the soil ecosystem is fed with sugars, the products of photosynthesis...
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Unmaking Soil Mastery: Postscript
Open Access
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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Reclamation
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 236–239.
Published: 01 July 2023
... extractive forms of planetary existence. Capital fully embraces reclamation wherever (and whenever) exhausted landscapes can be reimagined to once again reproduce extractive relations. Mountaintop removal (MTR), for example, is a form of surface mining where the destruction of nature is repurposed...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 273–294.
Published: 01 May 2018
... and the lively envelope around the planet’s surface, how they bring the slow, churning temporalities of the inner Earth into the more familiar rhythms and durations of the outer Earth. Such breachings, we suggest, are both exorbitantly generative and profoundly destructive, at once a giving and a taking away...
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Fathom
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 173–178.
Published: 01 May 2020
... the impossibility of mastery. Fathoming reminds us that the aim of knowing (researching) may not be finding the answer but rather asking a question and engaging with what surfaces. How might this question, this answer, emergent from these measures, these bodies, and this time, collaborate...
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