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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 86–106.
Published: 01 May 2018
... causally separate and restricts what gets counted as a casualty of war. Based on a year of ethnographic fieldwork, this article approaches the confirmed and suspected toxic remnants of war as toxic infrastructures that sediment and distribute war’s lethal potential, years after the last bomb was dropped...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 136–158.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Kate Lewis Hood Abstract This article offers an account of “toxic infrastructures” as mutually material and discursive arrangements operating in the postwar, postcrash, and settler colonial landscapes of the United States. It specifically responds to Jennifer Scappettone’s multimodal poetic work...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 194–215.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., accessed by the author on June 14, 2017. 57. Derrida, Archive Fever ; Burton, Archive Stories , 4. © 2019 Miriam Tola 2019 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). toxicity chemical infrastructures cosmopolitics...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 23–50.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and dismantlement.” 43 Sydney’s Olympic Games opened up hopes in blasted landscapes, new potentials for future life, as toxic waste dumps of the recent past were dismantled and replaced with new infrastructures and architectures of care. 44 Before construction began Janet Laurence, a renowned Australian...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 187–212.
Published: 01 May 2018
... respiratory and immuno-endocrine systems have been attuning to Puchuncaví’s atmosphere. But still. Sometimes I cannot help feeling, as on that gloomy morning, suspended in Puchuncaví—suspended in time, in action, and in airborne toxicants. Suspended as a somatic and a political condition. 33...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 407–430.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., it is possible to acknowledge that toxicity produces disability without pursuing sustainable infrastructures that exclude or eliminate disabled people. Alterlivability thus accounts for the conditions under which life is already harmed by the environment, and nevertheless finds ways to thrive. Speculative...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 21–44.
Published: 01 May 2021
...-orange-red palette of the line used in “Infrastructure” continues in “Waste,” where it medicalizes space by evoking scrapes and abrasions in the bullseye patterns of “Toxics Release Mapping” ( PA , 150–51). 51 These colors enter into medical representation in a subsequent visualization, “Metabolizing...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 152–173.
Published: 01 May 2019
... infrastructure—from hazmat suits and breathing apparatuses to plastic that is wrapped around objects and walls—in order to maintain the separation of body and asbestos, inside and outside, to counteract the boundary-crossing toxicity of asbestos. In the footage of removal this material infrastructure...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 27–51.
Published: 01 May 2019
... gardens, industrial infrastructure, listening sessions, toxic tours, explosions, pets, educational activities, letter writing campaigns, legislative signings, polluted landscapes, signs, airplanes, trucks, phone banks, parties, and a host of other images. These photos could be further categorized...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 402–426.
Published: 01 November 2019
... bare the epistemological failures of extractive capitalism, a mode of accumulation based on the large-scale withdrawal and processing of natural resources. The final section of the essay turns to the AMD&ART Park in Vintondale, Pennsylvania, and artist-activist John Sabraw’s toxic-art initiative...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 341–360.
Published: 01 July 2022
... explore our affective, political, and ecological ties. 50 Years of collective organizing opened up a possible path toward different modes of living our already damaged lives, while aiming at dismantling the toxic discourses of hegemonic knowledge and infrastructures that sustain oppression...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 699–717.
Published: 01 November 2022
... with this question, this article explores my own attraction to this tiny place in postindustrial and settler colonial Hamilton, Ontario. I am curious about what it can teach us about the complex entanglements of these things, and the toxic desires that are both enabled and foreclosed by the relations that gather...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 528–531.
Published: 01 November 2018
... in an additional ecological sense, as toxic waste: terminology such as military waste , contamination , hazardous area , and residual risk give a sense of this approach. This terminology invites analysis of “post-conflict landscapes” 4 as distinct ecological zones. In other ways, treating ordnance as waste...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 579–583.
Published: 01 November 2022
... interventions versus looser forms of care? In the case of Savannah, for example, we might contrast the extensive mitigation to maintain sturgeon habitat and dissolved oxygen levels in the river with more limited interventions to protect striped bass and air toxics around the port. As this suggests, we should...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 19–39.
Published: 01 May 2014
.... 34 Tuberty, interview by Hatmaker. 35 Cowan, Seramur, and Hageman, “Magnetic Susceptibility Measurements to Detect Coal Fly Ash from the Kingston Tennessee Spill in Watts Bar Reservoir.” 36 Dewan, “At Plant in Coal Ash Spill, Toxic Deposits by the Ton.” 37 Shaila Dewan...
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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 (2): 475–491.
Published: 01 November 2020
... on reproductive freedoms and bodily sovereignty as well as the further separation of kin into kinds. In a time of rapidly falling global fertility rates, this essay redraws the focus of the conversation on human numbers away from individual (decision)making toward the inequalities and infrastructures...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 499–521.
Published: 01 November 2022
... in established plantation regions that was extended over the next century through synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. Such chemical fixes for systemic ecological crises inserted toxicity into a political ecology that already systemically devalued and undermined Black workers’ lives and labor. Analyzing...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 89–105.
Published: 01 May 2016
... infrastructure was never designed to stop making nuclear weapons. There was no end point in the nuclear deterrence model. Peace, former DOE advisor Bob Alvarez explains, was a “profoundly disruptive thing to a system that had never envisioned stopping. The United States and Russia, and especially the people...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 431–453.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., New Jersey, and the Struggle for Environmental Justice” ; Sullivan, “The Most Toxic Sites.” 25. Sicotte, From Workshop to Waste Magnet , 148 ; also see US Census Bureau, “Camden City, New Jersey.” 26. Gawande, “The Hot Spotters” ; Gawande, “Seeing Spots.” 27. Bush...
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