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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 746–765.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Viola Schreer Abstract This article examines the relationship between willful blindness and structures of blame by exploring how Ngaju Dayak villagers in Indonesia’s province of Central Kalimantan deal with the discourses, knowledge, and politics of blame that have emerged around the region’s...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 371–374.
Published: 01 July 2022
... moment, a global discursive avalanche of alarmism, righteousness, techno-utopianism, fatalism, half-truths, post-truth, and willful blindness. Multitudes of us find ourselves nursing the largest mass case of cognitive dissonance on record as we navigate daily life in the face of a crushing onslaught...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 697–708.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of these fires’ origins and various parties’ strategic deployment of willful blindness in navigating this Anthropocenic milieu. The effects of dichotomic environmentalist thinking are also explored by Adam Searle, Jonathon Turnbull, and Catherine Oliver, who point to the imaginative limits of treating cows...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 167–174.
Published: 01 May 2015
... reduced it to what constitutionally allows for scientific knowledge (the Kantian solution). But in so doing philosophy has only dramatised what Whitehead calls the “bifurcation of nature”—on one side an “objective” nature, blind to our values, indifferent to our projects; and on the other a nature which...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 7–21.
Published: 01 May 2012
.... Is this not something like a blind spot—nay an uncanny one in itself—in Heidegger's treatment of deinotaton? The philosopher who, of all Western philosophers, perhaps, saw most clearly the depth and scope of the problem, the one who is tirelessly evoked in ecological thinking—the one whom indeed one should not simply...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 391–413.
Published: 01 November 2021
... discusses art as an antidote to “plant blindness.” Aloi, Why Look at Plants , 1–35 . 7. Putnam, Art and Artifact . 8. Ogilvie, Science of Describing ; Thiers, Herbarium . 9. Latour, Science in Action ; Müller-Wille and Charmantier, “Natural History and Information...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 371–384.
Published: 01 July 2024
... weird way, to speak to us. References Allen William . “ Plant Blindness .” BioScience 53 , no. 10 ( 2003 ): 926 . Axer Eva , and Shields Ross . “ The Seed of an Idea, the Idea of a Seed: Goethe’s Urpflanze in the 21st Century .” https://www.plantphilosophy.org.uk...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 41–58.
Published: 01 May 2016
... as if they inhabit a commons, since the virtue of their actions according to Smith and his adherents lies precisely in their willed ignorance of what is going on around them. It is for this reason that Hardin does not nominate the actors in the scenario as simply “herdsmen,” but rather “ rational herdsmen,” since...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 543–563.
Published: 01 November 2022
... are designed to “make Americans pay for the evisceration of their sovereignty and future prosperity,” while environmentalism is engineering “the destruction of America’s founding principles” (here, the synonymity of property, liberty, and security) through “willful rejection of the Bible” and its authority...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 169–186.
Published: 01 May 2013
... are, in effect, social atoms. Curiously, 20 th -century philosophy has largely turned a blind eye and deaf ear to the vast philosophical implications of the second scientific revolution in 20 th -century science, among them a correlative moral ontology of internal relations and social wholes. The environmental...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 250–266.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of relations that sustain life, human and other, and to which modernity turned a blind eye. The scientists of SEL and IEES have drawn an important conclusion from their examination of the place of past and present human activities in pedogenesis: since they participate in the making of soils, they argue...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 375–384.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., to live well. 30 Deborah Bird Rose and Thom van Dooren have also probed into the unsettling sides of enchantments by examining the blind spots of love by looking at human relations to the unloved, disregarded, unseen, and neglected others—all those who do not capture the imagination or who are targeted...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 111–127.
Published: 01 May 2013
...—the living, sentient animal—must take place. The prioritizing of the visual interaction that occurs at the moment of slaughter appears to uphold a necessary function of validation for the meat eater: he or she is no longer a blind participant in the eating of animals, but has seen the light and therefore...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 66–92.
Published: 01 May 2021
... not trust that the hedge would attract the attention of visitors whose “plant blindness” might make them incapable of appreciating the trees with their greyish-brown bark and dark green leaves. 51 In 1936 the part of the hedge at Kirstenbosch was declared a national monument, and in 1945 the remains...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 May 2020
... racial injustice and nonwhite multispecies postapocalyptic futures. For the destruction of the train leaves behind two people of color, the sole survivors set against the backdrop of an almost blinding nonhuman whiteness, in the form of ice, snow, and a lone polar bear. We are invited to ponder...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 129–144.
Published: 01 March 2022
... 137 , no. 1 ( 2007 ): 149 – 56 . Derrida Jacques . The Animal That Therefore I Am , translated by Wills David and edited by Mallet Marie-Louise . New York : Fordham University Press , 2008 . D’Lugo Marvin . The Films of Carlos Saura: The Practice of Seeing...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 151–168.
Published: 01 May 2016
... . Willful Subjects . Durham : Duke University Press , 2014 . Baldwin Andrew . “ Ethnoscaping Canada's Boreal Forest: Liberal Whiteness and its Disaffiliation from Colonial Space .” The Canadian Geographer 53 , no. 4 ( 2009 ): 427 - 443 . Battiste Marie . “ Indigenous Knowledge...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 125–148.
Published: 01 May 2014
... the extremely problematic notion of “disturbance” to exclude the ethology of animals who live with humans. Throughout western thought and practice, “nature” is reified as a pristine domain separate from the contaminating influence of humanity. This patent metaphysics has blinded itself to the ubiquity of multi...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 204–229.
Published: 01 November 2017
... rather than to carry out a detailed study of resistance strategies. 14 Starting from the premise that academics could contribute to a better world if they did not talk only to themselves in closed circles, we address this article to an interdisciplinary community that is willing to consider...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 261–276.
Published: 01 May 2014
... in a single phrase. This allows for greater generality, precision, and sophistication, qualities essential to good scholarship. However, in order to communicate effectively across the boundaries of our disciplines and of the academy, we must sometimes be willing to relinquish or at least reopen some...