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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 19–38.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Paul G. Keil Abstract Domesticated pigs ( Sus scrofa ) were introduced as livestock in Australia by European settlers, and now a large population is living wild. Rather than interrogate the settler pig as co-colonizer and destroyer of Australian ecologies, this article employs Deborah Bird Rose’s...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Hugo Reinert Abstract Drawing on a multi-sited study of transnational efforts to safeguard the highly endangered Lesser White-fronted Goose ( Anser Erythropus ), the text develops an argument about a certain “biopolitics of the wild”—a particular mode of governing nonhuman life, rooted in certain...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 89–105.
Published: 01 May 2016
... over 800 species considered rare, threatened, endangered, and/or new to science. 6 The majority of the Columbia River's fall Chinook salmon spawn here. 7 It is a genuinely beautiful place. It also surrounds one of the most contaminated places on Earth. What are we to make of this wild...
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Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 1. Collecting wild plant seeds in Chernobyl during fieldwork. Reproduced courtesy of Laetitia Carrive.
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 182–201.
Published: 01 March 2022
... by Andreas Malm in a 2018 paper titled “In Wildness Lies the Liberation of the World: On Maroon Ecology and Partisan Nature.” Paradoxically, in suggesting that fugitive slaves’ experiences of “wild” spaces can point to a Marxist theory of wilderness, Malm ignores the concerns of Maroons and Indigenous...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 418–432.
Published: 01 November 2017
... in Antarctica, I will compare the paramilitary practicalities of Antarctic research station and field camp life with the visions of the Antarctic as a place of sublime wild nature, violent death, and climate disaster. Using three signature events in Antarctic field training—predeparture, orientation...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 346–369.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., the wildcat’s precarious position raises questions regarding extinction and its place in the wider conservation narrative. In this article the author tackles the possibly futile attempts by conservation bodies to save the Scottish wildcat from the brink of extinction in Britain’s “last wild place...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 66–92.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Melanie Boehi Abstract When the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden was established in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1913, it was envisioned as a site that served white citizens. Kirstenbosch was presented as a landscape in which plants functioned as representatives of their wild habitats...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 162–182.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of encounters between Britons and dangerous natural environments in tropical colonies. This article combines literary-historical criticism with a history of emotions perspective to show how the expression or, alternately, elision of fear in adventure memoirs helped to frame encounters with wild animals...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 590–602.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and follows wild and impersonal tendencies, creating space for collective individuation, more-than-human joy, and beauty. [email protected] [email protected] © 2024 Tessa Laird and Andrew Goodman 2024 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 104–118.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of retribution and helped shape a project that became less concerned with correcting the past and more committed to reconfiguring toxic relations in the present. The final installation design propagated seeds from the wetland vegetation surrounding the landfill. This wild vegetation had not only become...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 53–71.
Published: 01 May 2015
... millions of years. The loss of wildness thus elicits a loss of harmony. I consider these Anthropocene interpretations of silence, noise and dissonance by comparing the environmentalist concerns of Krause with responses to the Listening to Birds project—an anthropological investigation of bird sounds...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 117–146.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Daegan Miller Abstract In the fall of 1846, the first of 3,000 African American settlers set foot on their 40-acre plots in the Great Northern Wilderness of New York State, a place we now call the “forever wild” wilderness of the Adirondack State Park. These black settlers were the initial wave...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 103–121.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of interspecies relationships, which in turn shape the location of disease risks in space. I develop the term risky zoographies to signal the emergence of competing descriptions of animals and their habitats in zoonotic disease contexts. This concept suggests that as wild animals, livestock products...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 43–70.
Published: 01 May 2013
... into the wild, his flute-like songs and timbre spread throughout the local lyrebird population. We count ourselves among those who admire the sonic achievements of this bioregion's “flute lyrebirds.” These Superb Lyrebirds ( Menura novaehollandiae ) do indeed deliver an unusual and extraordinarily complex...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 522–542.
Published: 01 November 2022
... that reduction. Throughout the entanglements detailed here, we can glimpse the complex system of human involvement in the lives of animals in Los Angeles. These entanglements go far beyond the occasional sighting of a wild animal to include intense emotions about the safety of companion animals...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 259–263.
Published: 01 May 2016
... populations of each species survived in the wild). What this revealed was the level of ignorance of crocodile distribution, abundance and behaviour, and how hard it was to count crocodiles accurately. The Crocodile Specialist Group reluctantly concluded that in order to convince people to tolerate large...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 118–142.
Published: 01 May 2016
... herpes “creeps” across three different settings of elephant care: the conventional and contested elephant enclosure of the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, USA; the contaminated and violent “wild” spaces of the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary in Kerala, in South India; and the carefully designed “household-like...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 195–214.
Published: 01 July 2023
... Wild lions are guided to enact a carnal labor for audiences, their behavioral dispositions shaped to meet the desires and commodifiable moments of the tourist encounter in India. 3 Not only can these animals be understood as performing labor and working, but we suggest that they can and should...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 171–186.
Published: 01 May 2018
... a grizzly bear, but of course, no one wants to be killed by one.” Both humans and bears seek Banff as a refuge, a place to live and thrive outside the pressures of urban, contemporary life. If the goal of the park is to provide humans with access to “wild” nature, that means, paradoxically, that grizzly...
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