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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 842–849.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Christos Lynteris [email protected] © 2024 Christos Lynteris 2024 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). One culture’s villain is another culture’s hero. Paraphrasing the tired political aphorism...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 697–708.
Published: 01 November 2024
... environmental catastrophes, deadly pandemics, and deepening global inequalities, figures of heroes and villains abound. Ranging from selfless conservationists to uncaring states, protective cosmic beings to COVID-19, and climate-friendly crops to industrial plantations, such figures are conjured by multiple...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 746–765.
Published: 01 November 2024
... recurrent peat fires. Since these fires cause regional air pollution, detrimental health effects, tremendous economic costs, and environmental impact on a global scale, the search for fire villains takes center stage. However, as this article shows, the causes of fires are basically unknowable. Not only do...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 766–783.
Published: 01 November 2024
... is neither quite hero nor villain to Batek, these refusals are when Batek cease to become oil palm’s perfect victims. It is these moments that I am often encouraged to share, to teach people that “this is what Batek do,” this is “our way of living.” This persistence is facilitated by the fact that (at least...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 826–841.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Columba González-Duarte Abstract This article explores the theme of heroes and villains in relation to the conservation of the North American monarch butterfly. The monarch butterfly is a migratory insect that performs an annual four-thousand-kilometer journey across Canada, the United States...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 725–745.
Published: 01 November 2024
... for supercrops. This exploration of shifting vegetal virtuosity highlights the ecological attunement of partial exemplarity when compared with the expected ubiquity of heroic and villainous crops. The contrast between heroic and partial exemplarity highlights how a plant becomes an ethical companion offering...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 807–825.
Published: 01 November 2024
.... 8 Each highlights a distinct set of heroes, villains, and victims, exemplifying the multiplicity, contextual versatility, and at times contradictory ambiguity of Sowa Rigpa discourse. Besides Sowa Rigpa practitioners themselves, the heroic spectrum includes medical and paramedical professionals...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 784–806.
Published: 01 November 2024
... as climate villains that inhibit technocapitalist progress. While the disproportionately large ecological hoofprint of cows is now well known, their repositioning as solutions to this same problem is part of a novel agricultural discourse. Depending on the way they are framed through technology, science...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 709–724.
Published: 01 November 2024
...” and the identity of the desired hero against a villainous, extractivist outside becomes blurred. Here emerges another voice. Another spirit was active at the same time, one who mobilized a different set of the population. Phor Khaaw had been dealing with questions of international relations for years. He...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 November 2021
... for a long time, and how the experiments in Juazeiro and other parts of the world had been done. Then, he added, “We are only releasing males. They are the heroes that arrived to fight dengue. It is only the female that bites for blood. It is she who is the villain in this story.” This sort of villainous...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 370–396.
Published: 01 November 2018
...”; and Head et al., “Living with Invasive Plants.” 18. For example, see Evans et al., “Adaptive Management”; Graham and Ernston, “Comanagement at the Fringes.” 19. Drower, Garden Heroes and Villains . It is worth noting, however, that there is evidence that it was present in Irish forests prior...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 19–38.
Published: 01 July 2023
... history select species populations—whether pigs, rats, mosquitoes, or otherwise—are feared and framed as “epidemic villains,” justifying widespread culling. 62 Domesticated pigs are known to be vulnerable to and to amplify many exotic diseases. With free-living pigs, the anxiety of an unruly vector...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 69–93.
Published: 01 May 2014
... for the work's power at the moment of revelation: “We are basically anthropomorphizing objects right? I mean, you can do it even if they don't have a face.” 53 She compared Uranium to Wallace and Grommet, a famous claymation series, [Watching a villain in a Wallace and Grommet film] you're laughing...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 457–474.
Published: 01 July 2022
... relational alignments between affective enchantment and interspecies response-ability. 8 As the world of industrial salmon farming is often cast in black-and-white, heroes and villains, it seems necessary to show that maximizing profit and caring for animals are not always antithetical but parts...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 129–147.
Published: 01 May 2013
... fictions we make archetypal villains those who assimilate others in order to inflate their own enterprise—the Borg—what will men make of themselves when they finally get around to facing Man's assimilating mode of operation? Modes of thinking mesh with how people act and with the ways of life...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 273–294.
Published: 01 May 2018
.... Popular culture, meanwhile, runs ahead. The Superpower Wiki catalogues some forty superheroes and villains—from Lava Girl to Molten Man—with magma-manipulating capabilities, while forums dedicated to the video game Minecraft feature comprehensive discussion about what can be done with magma...
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The War between Amaranth and Soy: Interspecies Resistance to Transgenic Soy Agriculture in Argentina
Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 204–229.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., and videos anthropomorphize amaranth, making it into a hero in a struggle against the villain—RR-soy. These discourses express a vision of an active plant-nature deeply embedded not only in the pre-Columbian past but also in today’s popular culture. They also reveal the biological qualities of amaranth...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 77–100.
Published: 01 May 2014
... a disassociation from the work and a sense of scepticism in relation to its status as art. The text continues, “Here the moss has been attacked by the art.” 82 The phenomena are described as nature vandalism (Icelandic: náttúruspjöll ), and the creator as níðingur —a villain. A discourse of nature...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 233–260.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., Andreas Malm and Alf Hornborg worry that the blanket prefix “Anthropo” illicitly glosses uneven histories and geographies of environmental change that make the modern capitalist West the principal villain in the drama of the Holocene's eclipse. 45 The environmental humanities in “Anthropocene...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 1–40.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., advances, entrenches, besieges), strong nouns (rogues, fence-jumpers, sleepers, villains) and occasional adjectives (mischievous, deplorable, abominable, scurrilous, baleful, truculent).” 102 The South African Government declared 8-15 October 2000 ‘AlienBuster Week.’ The campaign was intended to explain...