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Urban Pedogeneses: The Making of City Soils from Hard Surfacing to the Urban Soil Sciences
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 250–266.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Germain Meulemans Abstract This article examines the rise of urban soils as a topic of scientific inquiry and ecological engineering in France, and questions how new framings of soil as a material that can be designed reconfigure relationships between urban life and soils in a context of fast...
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Unmaking Soil Mastery: Postscript
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 285–287.
Published: 01 May 2020
... change. . . . Every time we change soils, we change everything else.” Humility is necessary to the partnership with humus. Focusing on the creation of new fields of scholarship on urban soils, Germaine Meulemans reflects that “in the current period, soils are becoming the very object of engineering...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 190–204.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Meulemans looks at the changing materiality of soils in the urban context. Engaging with the history of modern urbanism, he argues that a conceptual and practical disappearance of soils—their backgrounding—was central to the emergence of a modern city. The sealing and waterproofing of soils with man-made...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2025
..., and as they became more paved and extensive, supply difficulties emerged. Networked, hydraulic solutions came more easily to populations already becoming disconnected from immediate contact with soil. Nonetheless water closets and earth closets might potentially coexist as different systems, one urban and one rural...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 190–202.
Published: 01 November 2023
... hardened into concrete, Richmond, an island raised largely through Chinese labor in the nineteenth century, is geohydrologically unstable. As geotechnical engineers explain, the soil is “incompetent,” waterlogged and prone to liquefaction, a propensity for land to suddenly behave as a liquid under certain...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 407–430.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., urban design can draw on disability, race, and gender as unexpected sources of knowledge about building urban spaces and communities that subvert capitalist imperatives. For urban planners committed to more just worlds, alterlivable prototyping, politics, and ethics can thus grow the soils...
View articletitled, Alterlivability: Speculative Design Fiction and the <span class="search-highlight">Urban</span> Good Life in Starhawk’s Fifth Sacred Thing and City of Refuge
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Dust
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 422–425.
Published: 01 July 2024
... Particles . New York : Abrams , 2023 . Pearce Lilian . “ Contaminated Kinship .” Aeon , February 24 , 2022 . https://aeon.co/essays/home-among-the-toxic-dust-and-soil-of-australias-mining-towns . Sharan Awadhendra . Dust and Smoke: Air Pollution and Colonial Urbanism, India, c...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 51–87.
Published: 01 May 2020
... words, young people also used green spaces—including wilderness parks—to forge a culture that most adults saw as unnatural, implicitly oppositional, and pathological, a social world born not of history, tradition, and soil, but directly of the urban environment. Jazz-Age youth culture was born not just...
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View articletitled, Multicultural Wilderness: Immigrants, African Americans, and Industrial Workers in the Forest Preserves and Dunes of Jazz-Age Chicago
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Metabolic Strata, Corporeal Sediment
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 159–173.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Justus von Liebig, who argued that declining soil fertility was caused by disruptions to its metabolic cycle: in exporting agricultural produce to urban areas without importing human metabolic wastes, farmers were also stripping the land of nutrients, creating a rift in what should have been a cycle...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 254–267.
Published: 01 March 2025
..., oxidations, and contaminations of materials from the underworld. Poetry as edaphology activates a poetic expression of contagion among subsoil organisms that reflects other ways of understanding and knowing the depths of Venezuelan soil. 1. Edaphology—from the Greek edaphos (soil) and -logy...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 39–61.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Mankei Tam Abstract This article explores soil and the multiple pathways it has provided for the coconstitution of forms of life that might be possible following the Fukushima nuclear fallout. In Iitate, a former evacuation zone where radiation still lingers, farmers and concerned citizens deploy...
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Justus von Liebig Makes the World: Soil Properties and Social Change in the Nineteenth Century
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 205–226.
Published: 01 May 2020
... (see Duncan 1996 ; Friedmann 2000 ). Schneider and McMichael, in contrast, posit an alternative explanation for the significance of urbanized labor to rural soil fertility. Citing the epistemological break that followed the spatial reorganization of labor in industrializing Europe, they contend...
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Chemosociality in Multispecies Worlds: Endangered Frogs and Toxic Possibilities in Sydney
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 23–50.
Published: 01 May 2020
... species boundaries, 23 and where humans patiently dwell together with animals in close proximity. 24 As ethnographers start to follow chemicals through complex landscapes—shaped by industrial production, modern war, urban planning, and real estate speculation—it is important to not just treat...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 141–163.
Published: 01 March 2023
... to reclaim space from poorly planned human settlement, deforestation, and escalating urban growth. In another short text, Wilches-Chaux elaborated on the right of water to expand during times of rain, to be absorbed by soil, to flow, and to have a place to flow into. 43 I am provoked to understand...
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Disjointed Times in “Climate-Smart” Amazonia
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 321–340.
Published: 01 July 2022
.... Their short-term, profit-oriented focus fails to grapple with the nonproductive, deep temporality of processes such as decomposition and soil formation, which are advanced by myriad nonhuman beings whose behaviors and relationships are recalcitrant to human mastery. 8 Thus, notwithstanding the lower...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 18–39.
Published: 01 May 2017
... that belonging can be “singularized” to a particular location or landscape. Building on this idea, I examine the encounters of Gorkha tea plantation workers, students, and city dwellers with landslides, a crumbling colonial infrastructure, and urban wildlife. While many analyses of subnational movements in India...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 125–148.
Published: 01 May 2014
... Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning . Durham : Duke University Press , 2007 . Bertoni Filippo . “ Soil and Worm: On Eating as Relating .” Science as Culture 22 , no. 1 ( 2013 ): 61 - 85 . Braun Bruce . “ Environmental Issues: Writing a More-Than-Human Urban...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 117–146.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of the pre-Civil War South, or framed-by-environmental-racism histories of the 20 th century urban North. 3 With the exception of Myra B. Young Armstead's Freedom's Gardner: James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America (2012) there is currently no environmental...
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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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“Memory Effects” and Dark Histories: Ecological Light-Pollution Research and Nazi Legacies at Lake Stechlin
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 118–141.
Published: 01 March 2024
... 40 , no. 2 ( 2010 ): 183 – 224 . Bartov Omer . Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Industrialization . New York : Oxford University Press , 1996 . Bassin Mark . “ Blood or Soil? The Völkisch Movement, the Nazis, and the Legacy of Geopolitik...
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