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Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 2. The newly constructed Whale Hall with the bowhead whale, ca. 1939/40. Historische Bild- und Schriftgutsammlungen: MfN, HBSB, ZM B III 1112. Courtesy of Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. More
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Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 3. The damaged whale skeleton and cast in the rubble of the Whale Hall, after February 3, 1945. Historische Bild- und Schriftgutsammlungen: MfN, HBSB, ZM B VI 233. Courtesy of Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. More
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 454–474.
Published: 01 November 2020
... unknown extinctions, this article argues that it can provide an important stimulus for developing a situated approach to losses that are often thought of in terms of undifferentiated masses. The article’s focus is on the recently discovered ecosystems of creatures that live on the remnants of dead whales...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 162–181.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Melanie Duckworth Abstract This article discusses two children’s picture books, The Snail and the Whale (2003), written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler, and The Secret of Black Rock (2017) by Joe Todd-Stanton, as vibrant and fantastic engagements with multispecies worlds...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 8–29.
Published: 01 November 2023
.... In this article, we assess some of these claims by examining an Asian ritual tradition that is arguably animistic, while also containing elements of Buddhism, Daoism, and ancestor worship: the worship of whales, widespread along the coast of South and Central Vietnam. Fishing communities here believe that whales...
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 2. Bình An temple in Mũi Né, flanked by whale graves. Photograph by Aike P. Rots, 2019. More
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 3. Erosion at Cửa Đại: sandbags on the beach and a collapsing whale temple. Photograph by Aike P. Rots, 2019. More
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 7b. Killer whale at Frankfurt Airport, circa 1970s. Courtesy of the Fraport Archiv. More
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 530–553.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Figure 2. The newly constructed Whale Hall with the bowhead whale, ca. 1939/40. Historische Bild- und Schriftgutsammlungen: MfN, HBSB, ZM B III 1112. Courtesy of Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. ...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 196–214.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Max Ritts; John Shiga Abstract Throughout the Cold War, the US Navy aggressively explored the sound-making and sound-detecting capacities of cetaceans to help it retain its supremacy in marine battle space. Whales, dolphins, and porpoises were engaged as animals that “see with sound,” that produce...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 208–230.
Published: 01 March 2023
... Robin Kimmerer, author-activist Terry Tempest Williams, coastal Inupiaq communities with bowhead whales, and Orca whale Tahlequah and her human interlocutors. Like my primary narrative texts, these practices unfold from the knowledge that many and much has/have been lost but that the futurities...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 529.
Published: 01 November 2024
... published in the journal’s pages in the preceding year, is “When Gods Drown in Plastic: Vietnamese Whale Worship, Environmental Crises, and the Problem of Animism,” by Aike P. Rots and Nhung Lu Rots, which appeared in the November 2023 issue. This article offers an insightful reexamination of the claim...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 239–241.
Published: 01 May 2019
.... Indeed, we are hit with ever more grotesque accounts of animal life extinguished by toxins: “An orca that was found dead last year is now considered one of the most polluted whales ever found.” 1 This orca, Lulu, a member of one of the last Orca pods near the United Kingdom, calls us to think across...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 398–417.
Published: 01 November 2017
... industries), and improving opportunities for fish farming in cold climates. 26 30. Zarankin and Senatore, “Archaeology in Antarctica,” 43. 31. Pastene and Quiroz, “Outline of the History of Whaling in Chile,” 89. 32. Shukin, Animal Capital . 33. Paxson, “Post-Pasteurian Cutures...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 89–109.
Published: 01 March 2022
... systems, to the complex communities of specialists that once fed on the whale carcasses that fell to the deep-sea floor, before commercial whaling led to their removal from the oceans: within recorded history, numerous species in these and various other ecosystems have no doubt disappeared without a trace...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 564–570.
Published: 01 November 2022
... So the regressive narrative is a grainy picture of a whale being hauled up by a whaling ship that leads people to cry for outlawing whaling. The regressive narrative sums up the entire Vietnam War with a picture of Major General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing Nguyễn Văn Lém the streets of Saigon. 15...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 217–232.
Published: 01 May 2014
... the skin off, separate blubber from flesh, and boil the white gold in giant containers to extract the whale oil. ... They leave the rest to rot. The whale skeletons show white against the dark sand, the water is red with blood and the stench of rotting flesh fills the air. Thousands of plundered bodies...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 296–320.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., there is scope to incorporate such thinking into existing biopolitical frameworks. Thus, the shared orientations, like those that characterize a distinct pod of orca whales, become a recognisable facet of their species being, worthy of consideration amidst conservation calculations. 53 However, despite...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 May 2017
... by the natural world 29 or the ontological multiplicity of whales, it also seems to me increasingly urgent to further interrogate the cultural, sociological, and economic conditions of contemporary Western institutions—institutions that, despite considerable efforts at reform in some quarters, are rendering...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 57–77.
Published: 01 May 2013
... and instruction of the burgeoning middle class. Carson herself was, at times, a savvy exploiter of these very trends; in her speech at the New York Herald Tribune 's Book and Author Luncheon in 1951, she captured her listeners' attention with underwater recordings of shrimp, fish, and whales from the Woods Hole...