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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 44–63.
Published: 01 March 2023
... consent. It can be challenging to obtain consent or ascertain agreement in the absence of straightforward communication. To address the whether and how of collaboration across difference, this article draws on ethnographic research on dowsing—a traditional method for finding underground water and other...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 385–402.
Published: 01 July 2024
... underground. By pinpointing such materials across Barrancabermeja, the article argues that the oil archive is not just found in historical documents but embedded in the landscape, in social practices, in human bodies, and even in the geology of the earth. To understand the deep-seated influence of oil...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 266–283.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., produce senses of closeness and/or distance between everyday life and the geological implications of human presence. It follows the work of geologists in Costa Rica who rely on a 3D physical model to bring about scalar oscillations that connect human experiences with the vastness of underground worlds...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 310–329.
Published: 01 May 2018
... fuel. To date, the moral justification for burying the waste underground has hinged on the technical possibilities of communicating a message of warning to people living ten thousand years in the future. I argue that the problem with this approach is not only that it insufficiently acknowledges...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 284–291.
Published: 01 November 2023
... the underground as a corporeal colonial afterlife. Orebodies differentiate bodies. Nigel Clark and Rebecca Whittle, in “Planetary Rifting and the Paleogeography of Care,” raise the precarious rift of thinking across generations as responsibility and care. The question this raises for me is whether...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 203–218.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., particularly in Canada and other settler states that have long dominated global mining. Since the mid-twentieth century, the proliferation of computer models among geologists and mining engineers has radically changed how practitioners establish a feeling for underground structures. 11 As with nuclear...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 57–76.
Published: 01 May 2016
... number of Northern citizens 19 and scientists have recast some helminths as “gut buddies” 20 —salutary symbionts capable of recalibrating dysfunctional bodily relationships. Clinical trials are under way, 21 but these have been overtaken by a burgeoning “hookworm underground.” 22 This online...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 159–173.
Published: 01 November 2023
...—vertebrates decompose underground, bacteria metabolize minerals, plants fix nitrogen from the soil, fossil fuels circulate commodities through cities built from sand and clay—and the point is to muster theoretical articulations adequate to this complexity. The article begins by linking Marxian theories...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 21–44.
Published: 01 May 2021
... the monikers Industrial Corridor, Chemical Corridor, Cancer Alley, and even Death Alley due to the damages wrought by the concentration of industries that extract, refine, and process petroleum. 5 PA goes deep underground to excavate the sources for these eponyms that signal the illness and death...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 402–426.
Published: 01 November 2019
... statement, Sabraw explains that the goal of his work is to understand the “underground excoriations” that are coal mines and the ways in which they affect human-nonhuman relations. 84 In 2018, Sabraw and Riefler teamed up with a hydrologist to design and build a pilot treatment and processing facility...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 237–239.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of the present, and to pay attention to the physicality and complexity of biotic life. The labyrinthine relation between ant plant and park maze extends to Mayan and Egyptian underground tunnels, to beehives, to land crop art, to ant hills, to urban sprawl, and so on. The sympathetic magic is not dualistic...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 87–108.
Published: 01 March 2023
... 2021, a community of periodical cicadas burst from soils across the northeastern United States. The event was much anticipated by scientists and cicada fans, because this particular species normally stays underground for exactly seventeen years. After emerging, Brood X, as the trillion-member community...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 March 2024
... But to the astonishment of the plantation keepers, the trees refused to die, even after being hacked. Young shoots would constantly spring up. On examining by botanists, something incredible was found. E. M. Coventry, an imperial forest official, noted that all the underground roots of the neighboring F. elastica trees...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 233–236.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., collaborate, and form communities, connecting with their neighbors through vast underground networks of mycelial fungus through which they share water, nutrients, and electrical signals. 13 Trees do not limit themselves to nourishing their own species—they play host to a wealth of organisms, including...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 183–186.
Published: 01 May 2015
... in the skyscrapers, it is everywhere inside, outside, above and underground. What of the labours of the plants and animals that are turned into food for human consumption? What of the human-machine assemblages that process the food? What of the labours of the once-living, whose fossilised remains are mined for our...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 280–301.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., which is expected “will remain hazardous for hundreds of thousands of years,” was the construction of a “geological disposal facility,” an engineered complex deep underground in which waste materials are stored in multiple forms of containers. 55 Much of the consultation conducted with local...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 470–474.
Published: 01 November 2021
...’ lower parts, usually underground, 24 serving functions of anchoring, absorbing nutrients and producing hormones. 25 Beyond this comes huge diversity, with roots specializing in different functions including carbohydrate storage and reproduction. 26 Some roots are temporary, others permanent...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 190–202.
Published: 01 November 2023
... makes them a point of contact between social and geophysical agencies. The orogene exists as a hinge between powerful organization and the unstillness of the land; she is a fault through which disparate agencies reshape the earth, from underground to sky. The orogene, as a racialized figure...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 371–384.
Published: 01 July 2024
... House , 2001 . Pollan Michael . “ The Intelligent Plant .” New Yorker , December 15 , 2013 . https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/23/the-intelligent-plant/ . Popkin Gabriel . “ Are Trees Talking Underground? For Scientists, It’s in Dispute .” New York Times , November...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 194–215.
Published: 01 May 2019
... and soil linked to the chemical-textile complex. It is possible that carbon disulfide and other chemicals dissipated in the stream of water, and dissolved in the soil and the air. The urban lake that emerged from underground decades after the factory’s closure bears no trace of past toxicities...
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