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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 85–104.
Published: 01 July 2023
... Institute corporate environmentalism fossil fuels electric vehicles greenwashing Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 152–173.
Published: 01 May 2019
... by breaching the boundary that appears to separate the insides of our bodies from our outward environments. Asbestos attests to the fact that the human does not just touch the nonhuman, culture does not just touch nature, but the boundaries between them operate within a framework of trans-corporeality, viscous...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 162–182.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Daniel Haines Abstract The image of the heroic adventurer, who shot big game or traveled remote regions of the earth, populated the British Empire’s exploration and hunting narratives. Scholars have done much to deconstruct this image but have so far barely touched on the emotional dimensions...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 385–402.
Published: 01 July 2024
... city of Barrancabermeja, this article aims to investigate the nature of the oil archive. Situated within the broader field of literature on the history of petroleum and archives, the investigation touches upon records in diverse archives, the urban fabric, and repositories of oil’s history to be found...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 196–214.
Published: 01 November 2016
... sophisticated echolocation “clicks,” and that harness the ocean’s complex acoustic waveguide to detect signals thousands of miles away. Other scholars have touched on the navy’s legacy in cetology (whale science), but none have made it their object of study. Our article places this relationship at the center...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 261–264.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of Etymological Teeth .” OUPblog , February 17 , 2021 . https://blog.oup.com/2021/02/the-skin-of-etymological-teeth . Manning Erin . Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, Sovereignty . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2007 . Massumi Brian . Parables for the Virtual...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 30–51.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Helena, the second demining site, it is a grassy flat area next to the worn-out local soccer field, about five hundred meters from the base camp. Their dance starts with a simple bodily gesture: Ibra leans forward, extends his arm, and slowly opens his closed hand, his fingers subtly touching the grass...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 21–41.
Published: 01 May 2013
... within our reach and touch. And whether speaking of a singular death or a specific extinction, these lives are ethically and quite literally irreplaceable, nothing will ever take their place in the world. How much more difficult is it to think about the extinction of a species, especially one very...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 378–397.
Published: 01 November 2017
... shines, the sky (with regard to ultraviolet) screens, the skin touches, the eye sees. To posit that the Sun sees or that the sky touches tends to be regarded as absurd and to claim that the eye has an intrinsic shine is bound to be dismissed as outdated. Crucially—many of my interlocutors insisted...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 19–35.
Published: 01 March 2024
... apparent boundaries illusory, is also central to the feminist new materialist writing about wet relationality. 15 One crucial thing that (immersion in) water dissolves, especially for Jue, is the Western ontology of the senses: the idea that vision is distinct from and superior to sound and touch...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 291–294.
Published: 01 May 2014
... expansive, perhaps even explosive, rippling out into the world. It is this kind of curiosity that prompts her to ask: “Whom and what do I touch when I touch my dog? How is ‘becoming with’ a practice of becoming worldly?” 7 In Haraway's hands, the simple act of touching a dog—“touch” she reminds us “does...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 180–193.
Published: 01 May 2019
... . . . , not the sentiment of horror and shock, so the most disturbing quality of its impact on sensation is imperceptibility, not insufferable hyperstimulation. Out of sight (out of hearing, smell, taste, touch) out of mind. But sight, the other senses, and the mind have long turned into dumps, which explains why subtler...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 230–254.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Liberalism .” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 26 , no. 1 ( 2015 ): 168 – 87 . Sears Cynthia , and Garrett Wendy . “ Microbes, Microbiota, and Colon Cancer .” Cell Host and Microbe 15 , no. 3 ( 2014 ): 317 – 28 . Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky . Touching...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 421–446.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and gentle touch is required to transfer the full root system of the plant and avoid stunting its growth, so too only the best drivers are trusted to transport seedlings to the concession. In the nursery, Budi guided me through the rows of plants and explained: The babies are still weak, so we water them...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 150–170.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of a desire for proximity with the rare and elusive through techniques of contiguity—an apt term, as it denotes tangibility and contact through touching (from the Latin contingere : cum meaning “with, together”; tangere meaning “to touch”). My analysis is meant to contribute to the call by environmental...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 241–256.
Published: 01 May 2018
... and facilitation. Director Claudia Zeiske remarks that an artist’s project “must touch the community as well as working artistically.” 37 Wendling presented the project in public arenas around Huntly during the early stages of her Oaks and Amity residency to canvas support for the proposed wood and to elicit...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 40–59.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of folding. Simultaneously touched by the world as we touch it, we look out upon it as both seer and participant in what we see. 33 My memory of this experience faded after I moved from the bay early in 1981; it was only on coming down to the park after revisiting my old building that afternoon in 2015...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 718–725.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Juno Salazar Parreñas; Nicole Seymour 8. Parreñas, Decolonizing Extinction ; Ballestero, “Touching with Light.” 9. Haraway, “Anthropocene” ; Margulis and Sagan, Acquiring Genomes . 7. Tsing et al., Arts of Living. 6. Haeckel, Generelle Morphologie...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 151–168.
Published: 01 May 2016
... because the mother raccoon is inside with her babies. The children nod and move on to play. All of a sudden, a child yells, “Raccoon, raccoon, raccoon!” Three raccoons are climbing down the tree closest to the building. Before they can touch the ground, the educator clusters the children together...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 343–347.
Published: 01 May 2018
... about her knowledge of ninu , its clever burrow-making habits, the way she and other young girls had learned to hunt them—a recount suffused with respect for the bilby and its elusive ways. She had not seen or touched a living ninu since she was a teenager, and was now, in her words, “more than fifty...