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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 104–118.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Caroline Ektander; Jonas Stuck Abstract Redistribute Toxicity was a commissioned art piece created by visual artist Jonas Staal in close collaboration with environmental historian Jonas Stuck and curator and researcher Caroline Ektander, and later enriched by the knowledge and practices of seed...
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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
...Miriam Tola Abstract Located in the Prenestino neighborhood of Rome, Italy, the former chemical-textile plant Ex-SNIA Viscosa has been a site of labor exploitation, toxicity, and struggle since the 1920s. Comprising postindustrial ruins, an urban lake, and myriad species, the area has been...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 101–107.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Olga Cielemęcka; Cecilia Åsberg © 2019 Olga Cielemęcka and Cecilia Åsberg 2019 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). This special section on toxic embodiment examines variously situated bodies, land- and waterscapes...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 86–106.
Published: 01 May 2018
... claiming inconclusive evidence and uncertainty about the toxic effects of the war, my southern Lebanese interlocutors insisted on causally linking Israel’s weapons to the perceived surge in cancer, infertility, and environmental degradation since 2006. Their insistence that war was causing this ongoing...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 152–173.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Sasha Litvintseva Abstract Asbestos is a fibrous mineral. Airborne asbestos—similar to nuclear radiation and chemical atmospheric pollutants—is invisible to the naked eye, and living and breathing alongside it has deferred toxic effects on human bodies. The toxicity of asbestos operates...
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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 (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): 388–405.
Published: 01 May 2020
... BY-NC-ND 3.0). extinction ecocide toxic dwelling deep time mourning We do not want to be here. That is the first thing to say. It is with the deepest sadness, anger, and bewilderment that we find ourselves, with others, in this position: thinking and writing about—and otherwise simply...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 23–50.
Published: 01 May 2020
.... Legacy dumping grounds in the Sydney Olympic Park have become habitat for the green and golden bell frog, an endangered species. While the normal world order of this frog has been lost with the spread of a deadly fungal disease, toxic chemicals have enabled the continuation of its social life. Temporary...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 180–193.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Michael Marder Abstract In this article, Michael Marder interprets the “toxic flood” we are living or dying through as a global dump. On his reading, multiple levels of existence—from the psychic to the physiological, from the environmental-elemental to the planetary—are being converted into a dump...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 341–360.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Ilenia Iengo Abstract This toxic autobiography seeks to open the conversation around the intersecting injustices marking the epistemological, material, political, and porous entanglements between endometriosis, the bodily inflammatory chronic condition the author is affected by, and the toxic waste...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 433–440.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Ayushi Dhawan; Simone M. Müller Abstract This special section seeks to reconsider our troubled times and their histories of irreversible toxic pollution through the lens of hopeful yet critical ways of engaging with this unprecedented condition of life. Thinking with “hazardous hope” as a tool...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 478–494.
Published: 01 July 2024
... the premise that the extraction and burning of this bitumen was and is not inevitable, this dialogue locates hazardous hope in the landscapes of the Athabasca region. To do so, the first section is an analysis of Warren Cariou’s photographic practice, situating his work within themes of toxicity and hope...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 52–71.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., and other minerals in Chhattisgarh state. Further, itineraries of conflict emphasize the embodied presence of indigenous communities and their activists in areas demarcated for the extraction of minerals, timber, and other resources in the face of continued armed conflict or toxic pollution. More broadly...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 19–38.
Published: 01 July 2023
... motivations sought to reductively read the free-living pig as toxic and illegitimate, and to rebrand the “wild” pig as “feral.” To be feral in Australia is to be part of a systematic process that institutes strict limitations on an animal’s relational possibilities. By problematizing all life-sustaining...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 230–254.
Published: 01 November 2017
... for the Other and the Anti-cancer Survival Kit reveal the political life of cancer to be animated by cellular and culinary anarchisms, bile, toxicity, frustration, and, in da Costa’s words, “more than even I can take.” © 2017 Lindsay Kelley 2017 This is an open access article distributed under the terms...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 137–151.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., and destruction of the built environment. Linking these experiences, the argument sets up and explores an analytical space within which the toxic modernity of planetary capitalism can resonate, structurally, with the racist violence of state colonialism: a space that also, the author suggests, describes...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 460–477.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Arthur Rose Abstract Asbestos has long been a staple lesson for the precautionary principle. As a toxic material, it is often something people hope not to encounter. But before this, it often appeared as a substance of hope, carrying the promise of safety and economic rewards. This article uses...
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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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