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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 239–241.
Published: 01 May 2019
... collection of essays demonstrates that toxic embodiment is a crucial lens for rethinking the human, not as an abstract force acting on the world, but as fleshy beings who are inseparable from their transcorporeal entanglements within the world. While the public concern for toxins seems overshadowed...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 341–360.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., the article uncovers the toxic embodiment where bodies and places are enmeshed. Although a growing body of literature acknowledges the role of chemical buildup and endocrine-disrupting toxins in the occurrence of endometriosis, the author delineates the epistemic injustices that keep this relationship silent...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 23–50.
Published: 01 May 2020
... for endangered animals whose altered lifeways are now dependent on human-produced toxins? Drawing inspiration from studies of human social worlds, one might characterize the world of green and golden bell frogs as an arena of shared discourse—where frogs sing to one another in choruses—and a space of social...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 85–102.
Published: 01 May 2012
...” itself, not yet “resolved,” narrativised, or made sense of. A negative affect, “hurt” indicates a harm being done to the body by a toxin in the environment, but the mind can only sense, rather than completely grasp, its kind or extent, lasting, as it will, past the span of a single human lifetime. Too...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 101–107.
Published: 01 May 2019
... and their naturalcultural interactions with toxicity. 1 The ideas of toxic embodiment play out in the social imaginaries of science and popular culture. Toxins have become a widespread and well-known threat to life on the planet, accompanied by iconic photographs of dead killer whales washed ashore. Infertile orcas...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 180–193.
Published: 01 May 2019
... and the purgatory, or Beatrice who leads him through paradise. Can we rely on their guidance today, when radiation, microscopic water contamination, and airborne toxins elude the sensory register? On the one hand, marked out and steered by the senses, the contemporary path ends abruptly in the dump with its...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 237–239.
Published: 01 March 2022
... to the milkweed, which contrarily release poisonous toxins to drive ants away. Ant plants are nonparasitic and do not bother rooting in soil. Ah, to live on fresh air and sunlight! Bulbously tuberous, the ant plants grow to form cavities, where initial tissue has decayed away. These cavities create a complex...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 478–494.
Published: 01 July 2024
...—and show us that it is also something beautiful, prompting a reengagement with bitumen as a material. Cariou thus situates hope as a relational practice. To focus on hope in the context of pollution is to shift the relation with the toxin and the land, contesting the two dominant narratives told about...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 402–426.
Published: 01 November 2019
... or “remainders,” then postextraction futurism harnesses extractive processes to heal ecosystems and communities. For AMD&ART Park and Sabraw’s toxic-art initiative, healing involves the physical removal of coal-related toxins from ecosystems and, through memorial art, prompting communities to link...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 554–570.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of uses. The odors of “wood rot,” “medicine bottles,” and “sickness” suggest their roles as decomposers, remedies, and toxins, respectively. The fungi also provide services to nonhumans, acting as the “homes of toads.” What is most remarkable about these fruiting bodies is their ability to shape-shift...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 422–425.
Published: 01 July 2024
..., mercury, radioactivity, plastics, and forever chemicals. This dust still captures footprints and campfires, enlivens dance and skin. But now, swept up in storms and blowing off hills, it also chokes Country, homes, livelihoods, and lungs, bringing new toxins into the enduring presence of lives...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 242–246.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of toxins, rather than considering them unnatural and abandoning them,” as Clare writes. Amplifying the voices of disability communities within the environmental humanities means being attentive to “bodily and ecological loss” as an “integral conundrum of both the human and nonhuman world.” 17 It means...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 29–48.
Published: 01 March 2022
... or dismissed as lowbrow. 9 “From where might we conjure ‘resources of hope,’” asks Pezzullo, especially for coasts of Red Tide, rivers of (micro)plastics, warming waves, streams of agricultural runoff, ripples of toxins, damned salmon, melting caps, and fracked-up aquifers? 10 As Elizabeth DeLoughrey...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 194–215.
Published: 01 May 2019
... in the manufacturing of Teflon, the popular anti-sticking product. See Lerner, “Teflon Toxin.” 16. Blanc, Fake Silk . 17. Blanc, Fake Silk , 11. 18. Showalter, “Hysteria, Feminisms, and Gender.” 19. Di Chiro, “Polluted Politics?” 20. Cerretano, “Multinational Business and Host...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 137–151.
Published: 01 May 2019
... materials is one marker of the much-debated new epoch known as the Anthropocene. Within a scant few decades, human activities have generated a planetary sheath of novel, anthropogenic substances—plastics, radioactive isotopes, toxins, other synthetic materials—that is sufficiently massive, on its own...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 149–166.
Published: 01 May 2017
.... Accustomed as ecocritics are to works seeking to represent the kind of slow violence that Nixon so magnificently theorizes—the aftermath of a nuclear bomb; the prolonged temporality of global climate change; the persistence and magnification of toxins as they make their way through ecological systems...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 101–116.
Published: 01 May 2013
... uncertainty into a moral certainty. In this situation, Eliassen essentially takes on the ethos of the scientific whistle-blower: “I, for one, will tell you that we cannot identify the toxins, and cannot predict the effects.” This establishes an ideal public image of the scientist—one who appears to honestly...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 433–440.
Published: 01 July 2024
... to rewrite environmental history and keep our own mental sanity when researching toxins and toxicants. It has the potential to enable environmental change, instilling the perpetual volition of moving forward. In this special section, “Hazardous Hope: Repositioning Troubled Research (and Researchers...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 136–158.
Published: 01 May 2021
... collaborators and interlocutors collectively compose a salvage poetics, breaking up the boundedness of “bodies” and “toxins” acting upon one another. These poetics resist making toxified subjects legible in the terms of discrete bodies and linear structures of cause and effect, while also exposing...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 23–55.
Published: 01 May 2012
... my mind wandering beyond our discussion of human dreams and schemes. Fringe-toed foam frogs interrupted my thoughts that night—they were calling to each other in the rice fields and in the drainage ditches of sugar cane fields, aqueous micro-environments awash in chemical toxins. Following my first...
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