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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 341–360.
Published: 01 July 2022
... in mainstream medical discourses. Through the blend of environmental memoir, embodied knowledge, activist campaigns, and medical literature, the article exposes the accumulation of environmental, medical, ableist, misogynist, and capitalist slow violence that living with endometriosis brings about. While...
View articletitled, Endometriosis and Environmental <span class="search-highlight">Violence</span>: An Embodied, Situated Ecopolitics from the Land of Fires in Campania, Italy
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 564–570.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Ben Perkins [email protected] © 2022 Ben Perkins 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Ten years ago, Rob Nixon introduced the idea of “slow violence,” and his idea has since become influential among...
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Folklore of Operational Banality: Medical Administration and Everyday Violence of Health
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 431–453.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Shiloh Krupar Abstract This article explores the reductive workings of policy that lead to intimate everyday forms of violence within US-based medical administration. Using the framework of folklore of operational banality (“FOOB”), the article examines a geodata-driven way of addressing...
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View articletitled, Folklore of Operational Banality: Medical Administration and Everyday <span class="search-highlight">Violence</span> of Health
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Of Geosocial Relations and Separations: Detangling Violence across Scales of Extraction and Colonial Warfare
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 174–189.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Zeynep Oguz Abstract How might an attention to the role that the geologic plays in everyday social and political formations help reveal and politicize the geographically, temporally, and stratigraphically distributed forms of violence in the Anthropocene? Building on recent work in environmental...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 25–41.
Published: 01 May 2013
...William Major Abstract This article examines the need to understand pacifism and environmentalism as essentially consonant philosophies and practices, just as a proper theorization of ecocide must also include the violence inherent to industrialism and militarism. Few contemporary writers...
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Invasive Narratives and the Inverse of Slow Violence: Alien Species in Science and Society
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 1–40.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of environmental change that inflict ‘slow violence’ on vulnerable human (and non-human) populations. Nixon argues that a lack of “arresting stories, images and symbols” reduces the visibility of gradual problems such as biodiversity loss, climate change and chemical pollution in cultural imaginations...
View articletitled, Invasive Narratives and the Inverse of Slow <span class="search-highlight">Violence</span>: Alien Species in Science and Society
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Seeing Environmental Violence in Deep Time: Perspectives from Contemporary Mongolian Literature and Music
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 257–272.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Richard D. G. Irvine Abstract What does it mean to do violence in deep time? How is deep time evoked in our understanding of environmental harm? Environmental transformations have figured prominently in the recent history of Mongolia. Shifts in land use have been associated with severe pasture...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 273–294.
Published: 01 May 2018
... facility is now being set up to explore energy generation and other possibilities of closer engagement with magma. We take this event as an incitement to explore how the Earth-changing “violence” of volcanic or igneous processes might be seen not simply as happening in time but as both generative...
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Weak Seed and a Poisoned Land: Slow Violence and the Toxic Infrastructures of War in South Lebanon
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 86–106.
Published: 01 May 2018
... bodily and environmental malaise exposes the slow violence of war and challenges the liberal idea of war as a temporary event and paroxysm of violence. Taking southern Lebanese accounts seriously reveals how the liberal idea of war keeps Israeli weapons, toxic environments, and embodied pathologies...
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Watershed Encounters
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 107–128.
Published: 01 May 2018
... that seem to change the course of history. I suggest that the intersection of temporal and spatial relationships embedded within the watershed concept reveals the interaction between modernist conceptions of space and time, enabling the persistence of trauma and violence that characterizes modernity...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 296–320.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and violence in conservation contexts, and raises important political and ethical questions regarding how lives are lost, saved, and valued. Such work offers a counter to the biopolitical tendencies of contemporary conservation discourse, emphasizing the contingent and situated character of life’s forms...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 141–163.
Published: 01 March 2023
... and more-than-human relations damaged by the interconnected dynamics of structural violence and decades of war. The author presents the environmental humanities-based methodologies that emerged in the collective process to elaborate the memory of the Mandur. The article also discusses the importance...
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Seed Care in the Palm Oil Sector
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 421–446.
Published: 01 November 2018
.... This loving care contrasts with the violence entailed in seed selection, controlled breeding, and regular culling. Furthermore, tensions arise between breeders and workers on the one hand and corporate “money makers” on the other over seeds as objects of care and sources of value. I demonstrate how seeds...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 May 2020
... earth mining, the slow violence of black lung disease, the factory work, the digital consumption practices—that have propelled and intensified the country’s stupendous development as well as its ecological challenges. We find new work on eco-media and media materialism most productive, as it sheds light...
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Anxieties of Access: Remembering as a Lake
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 245–263.
Published: 01 May 2021
... is never simple, never complete, and never without ingrained and intersecting structures of suppressed and channeled violence. Waters leave a trail of their own, writ on and in water. It contains stories that are recorded and relived. It has ontologies that are plural, overlapping, and multiple modes...
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Disjointed Times in “Climate-Smart” Amazonia
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 321–340.
Published: 01 July 2022
...David Rojas Abstract What does it mean to resort to neoliberal environmental approaches to heal the socio-ecological devastation wrought by fascistic forces? In Brazil extremist right-wing efforts to impose sovereign state rule over Amazonia have resulted in rampant deforestation, violence against...
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The Apocalyptic Herbarium: Mourning and Transformation in Anselm Kiefer’s Secret of the Ferns
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 391–413.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Yota Batsaki Abstract Anselm Kiefer’s monumental Secret of the Ferns (2007) redirects the artist’s apocalyptic sensibility, honed in response to the Holocaust, to the slow violence of extinction. The installation adopts a foundational practice of early modern natural history: the herbarium’s...
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Cotton, Whiteness, and Other Poisons
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 499–521.
Published: 01 November 2022
... and enabled by anti-Blackness, which sanctioned a systematic hostility to life that encoded environmental violence in plantation landscapes from the seed to the root. Agrotechnological notions of scientific progress and development conceived places, plants, and Black people as interchangeable parts. Tracing...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 66–92.
Published: 01 May 2021
.... The botanical garden’s curatorial practices silenced histories of colonial occupation, frontier violence, colonial agriculture, and slavery that had shaped the land on which it was built. Narratives that celebrated colonial histories were cultivated in monumental gardening. Throughout its existence...
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View articletitled, Radical Stories in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden: Emergent Ecologies’ Challenges to Colonial Narratives and Western Epistemologies
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 March 2023
... engagement with culture and religion. The article pursues one implication of this study by suggesting an amendment to the concept of “slow violence”: environmental injustice is better theorized as “slow sacrifice”—a political ecology of life and death, the goal of which is to concentrate death in some places...
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