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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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View articletitled, When Gods Drown in Plastic: Vietnamese <span class="search-highlight">Whale</span> Worship, Environmental Crises, and the Problem of Animism
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in Seeing the Anthropocene through Montage: John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea and Elizabeth Price’s BERLINWAL
> Environmental Humanities
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.
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in Seeing the Anthropocene through Montage: John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea and Elizabeth Price’s BERLINWAL
> Environmental Humanities
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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in When Gods Drown in Plastic: Vietnamese Whale Worship, Environmental Crises, and the Problem of Animism
> Environmental Humanities
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.
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in Encounters in Borderlands: Borderlining Animals and Technology at Frankfurt Airport
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 7b. Killer whale at Frankfurt Airport, circa 1970s. Courtesy of the Fraport Archiv.
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in When Gods Drown in Plastic: Vietnamese Whale Worship, Environmental Crises, and the Problem of Animism
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 2. Bình An temple in Mũi Né, flanked by whale graves. Photograph by Aike P. Rots, 2019.
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Seeing the Anthropocene through Montage: John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea and Elizabeth Price’s BERLINWAL
Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 530–553.
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. ...
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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
... Gate ; Jemisin, Stone Sky . 37. Hand, Icarus Descending , 329, 331 . 38. Hopkinson, Midnight Robber . 39. Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass . 40. Sakakibara, “‘No Whale, No Music.’” 41. Williams, Refuge , 68, 75–76 . 42. Williams, Refuge , 161...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 65–87.
Published: 01 March 2025
.... Feld, “On Post-ethnomusicology Alternatives,” 86 . 110. Latour, Reassembling the Social , 100 . 111. Haraway, “Manifesto for Cyborgs,” 73 . 112. Rothenberg, “Whale Music.” 113. Franklin, Dolly Mixtures , 134 . 114. The epigraph is taken from Eidsheim, Sensing...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 529.
Published: 01 November 2024
... offers an insightful reexamination of the claim that animistic religious belief necessarily leads to more sustainable environmental relations. Through a study of Vietnamese whale worship practices combined with everyday capitalistic practices on the coasts, the authors show that deep spiritual reverence...
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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
... , and Salazar Juan Francisco . “ Inhabiting the Antarctic .” Polar Journal 7 , no. 1 ( 2017 ): 9 – 25 . Pastene Luis A. , and Quiroz Daniel . “ An Outline of the History of Whaling in Chile .” In Human Culture from the Perspective of Traditional Maritime Communities, International...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 89–109.
Published: 01 March 2022
... 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. 49 But snails have a particular advantage over...
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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
... forces and by the life rhythms of nature. But the now uninhabited island was in the first decades of the twentieth century a centre of industrialized whale hunting, and the penguins at the Bailey Head colony—the colony depicted by Salgado—were used as fuel in the vessels where the whale oil was extracted...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 254–267.
Published: 01 March 2025
... Ballena (The Roof of the Whale), a militant art collective that “scavenges in the garbage to use the materials that the environment offers us. Our answers and actions arise from the very nature of things and events” 23 and call for “restoring the atmosphere.” 24 This collective and its...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 296–320.
Published: 01 May 2020
... 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 allowing us to stay with some of the complexity, such a move does little to challenge discourses of fungible natures. As a species...
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