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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 461–464.
Published: 01 November 2019
... instability and its implications for humanity can be tracked through the appearance in novels and prose texts of the agency of slow-moving and unbiddable silt. In his 1983 novel Waterland , set on England’s low-lying eastern coast, novelist Graham Swift’s narrator recounts: The Fens were formed by silt...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 93–109.
Published: 01 May 2013
... will convey the sense of tellers: When the march flies bite, the crocodiles are laying their eggs. When the jangarla tree ( Sesbania Formosa ) flowers, the barramundi are biting. When the cicadas sing, the figs are ripe and the turtles are fat. A type of swift flies high in the air before the cold...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 150–170.
Published: 01 May 2018
...”; and Kalshoven, “Gestures of Taxidermy.” 24. Haraway, “Teddybear Patriarchy,” has powerfully exposed the workings of gender dynamics in early twentieth-century American museum taxidermy, with male specimens selected to symbolize male dominance in human society. Cf. Purcell, Swift as a Shadow...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 129–149.
Published: 01 May 2018
... that octopus bodies can assume, it may seem odd that, as far as scientists can tell, octopus camouflage operates through vision alone. 27 The process appears even more mysterious considering the swiftness with which it unfolds, given that cortical visual processing tends to be among the slowest processes...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 52–64.
Published: 01 November 2023
.... As Kyle Powys Whyte has written, “When people relate to climate change through linear time, that is, as a ticking clock, they feel peril, and seek ways to stop the worst impacts of climate change immediately. Yet swift action obscures their responsibilities to others who risk being harmed by the solutions...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 495–511.
Published: 01 July 2024
... Excellency’s orders and expresses gratitude in advance for a swift resolution, given that these wages are the last crumbs that he waits for at the end of his long, yet honorable journey. 47 After some back and forth between state and federal authorities, the legal department of the National Petroleum...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 403–421.
Published: 01 July 2024
... storage service Glacier, which forms part of Amazon’s dominant position within the platform economy—market themselves on their swiftness and ease of use. 20 You do not need to think about all the externals because Amazon will manage those for you. Moreover, when we shift our lens from Amazon’s...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 111–127.
Published: 01 May 2013
... slaughter, produces large amounts of adrenaline that alters the way the meat tastes. To these ends, ethical meat producers strive to keep the animals calm, and the killing swift. Gold assures us that at humane farms and ranches, “panicked or anxious animals will be pulled from the slaughter line until...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., with swift repercussions for the global climate, seems to many important enough to warrant a name, and the one currently in vogue is Anthropocene . Awareness of the impact of agency upon Earth and its minerals is acute in our present situation, characterized, as Hazen remarks, “by wildly accelerated...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 152–173.
Published: 01 May 2019
... slow violence are” out of sync “with the swift seasons of electoral change,” as politicians are unwilling to take actions that may be economically unpopular in the short term, and only pay off environmentally “on someone else’s watch decades, even centuries, from now.” 63 The history of the use...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 205–226.
Published: 01 May 2020
... – 85 . Manlay Raphael , Feller Christian , and Swift Michael . “ Historical Evolution of Soil Organic Matter Concepts and Their Relationships with the Fertility and Sustainability of Cropping Systems .” Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment 119 , nos. 3–4 ( 2007 ): 217...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., slow-developing environmental injustices and crystallize the challenge of representing them with an urgency that demands a swift and resolute response. However, my study suggests that the dynamics that create and intensify sacrifice zones do not have primarily to do with a personal hatred of enemies...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 43–70.
Published: 01 May 2013
... transmission and change. For example, Curtis has observed that “[l]yrebirds are superb mimics. I think they can copy, almost perfectly at first try, any sound they want to.” 60 This would suggest that a swift cultural transmission might be possible. However, some of us interpret the lyrebird literature...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 19–39.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of movement, fluidity, and a kind of resistance. It happened late at night in the dark of a rural town when no one was looking. So much matter disappeared into the swift currents of a wide and constantly moving river, becoming new parts of a post-industrial ecosystem, evading human knowledge...