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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 343–347.
Published: 01 May 2018
... with the concept and mattering of wit(h)nessing . Wit(h)nessing is a word-concept seeded in ideas of co-poiesis by feminist theorist of affect, visual artist, and psychoanalyst Bracha Ettinger. 1 She writes that each of us is already in relationship before any assumption of an independent subjectivity—an I...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 66–92.
Published: 01 May 2021
... research over the years and generously shared their knowledge with me. I presented a first draft of this article at the internal seminar of the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), and I am grateful for the comments that I received there. I am also very thankful to Eben Kirksey, Achille...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 226–240.
Published: 01 May 2018
.... The idea that a never-before-witnessed event is unprecedented calls into question the shallow temporal frames through which deep time environmental phenomena are understood in Australian settler culture and offers an insight into often unnoticed ways in which contemporary society struggles...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 77–94.
Published: 01 May 2016
... and lays out an analysis of ethos, liveliness, storytelling, “response-ability,” and becoming witness. The second is performative, offering short ethographic vignettes that enact some of the qualities and approaches we have discussed. Here each of these vignettes is taken from our recent work in Hawai‘i...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 104–118.
Published: 01 November 2023
... implicated in Germany’s toxic history as silent witnesses but had also helped remediate the soils over time. [email protected] [email protected] © 2023 Caroline Ektander and Jonas Stuck 2023 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 60–83.
Published: 01 May 2017
... or the possibility of atmospheres that exist beyond their human witness. Copyright © 2017 Louise Hornby 2017 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). weather Anthropocene participatory art air phenomenology climate control...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 171–201.
Published: 01 May 2014
... connotations of the disembodied “god trick” found in these extraterrestrial photographs. As evidenced already in the 1950s at the landmark Man and Nature conference at Princeton and in the wildlife documentaries of Bernhard and Michael Grzimek, moreover, the first decades of the Great Acceleration witnessed...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 372–390.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Kent Linthicum; Mikaela Relford; Julia C. Johnson Abstract Native American authors in the first half of the nineteenth century—the dawn of the Anthropocene in some accounts—were witness to the rapid expansion of settler-colonialism powered by new ideologies of energy and fueled by fossil capitalism...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 310–329.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of this category, ethically and politically, over that of warning or instruction? I draw upon the classic theological and philosophical exploration of the confession in that of Saint Augustine and subsequently in Derrida’s mimicking of him, in the light of which I consider the ethics of confession and witness...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 388–405.
Published: 01 May 2020
... but also the end of (lived) time. They conclude with some reflections of local acts of resistance, witnessing, and narrative. 23. Williams, “The Anthropocene and the Long Seventeenth Century,” 89 . 24. Lloyd and Woodside, “Animals, Archetypes, and Advertising” ; Spears, Mowen, and Chakraborty...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 64–86.
Published: 01 March 2023
.... Steffen et al. “Trajectory of the Anthropocene” ; Angus, Facing the Anthropocene . 4. de Boer, How Scientific Instruments Speak . 3. Coeckelbergh, “Scientific Suspects, Romantic Witnesses?” 2. Waters et al., “Anthropocene Is Functionally and Stratigraphically Distinct,” 145...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 168–186.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of that experience: to stand as witness and actively to bear witness.” 47 In other words, if on-site research with particular species provides opportunities for personal witnessing, then the writing-up of this experience becomes a public expression of ethics that invites the reader to also bear witness...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 232–235.
Published: 01 July 2023
..., and Animal Life , edited by Steeves H. P. , 93 – 116 . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1999 . Bell Sarah J. , Instone Lesley , and Mee Kathleen J. . “ Engaged Witnessing: Researching with the More-than-Human .” Area 50 ( 2018 ): 136 – 44 . Haraway...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 52–64.
Published: 01 November 2023
... warmed and cooled in the past, this rate of warming has not occurred within the past sixty-five million years. 13 We are witnessing the planet changing at a catastrophic rate. Yet in our embodiment, in the temporal framing of a human life, the rate of change is often more difficult to register...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 351–372.
Published: 01 November 2019
... on] the inclusion of our lived experience, rich with emotional knowledges, of what pain and grief and hope meant or mean now in our pasts and futures.” 5 For me, the affective power of witnessing that moment is undeniable. After all, many years after that encounter, I continue to think and feel that particular...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 187–212.
Published: 01 May 2018
... it meant to live enveloped by chemical toxicants; how time and politics were imagined in a sacrifice zone; by which processes the VIC was (un)governed; and what the role of infrastructures was in shaping both the VIC and its harming effects. Trying to make sense of what we were witnessing and joining...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 111–127.
Published: 01 May 2013
... to infer that the honor derives from our gratitude to these animals for sacrificing their lives for our sustenance. And in fact, all three authors use the word sacrifice in relation to the killing of an animal they witness, the animal whose death will not be in vain. Sacrifice, however, implies a self...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 150–170.
Published: 01 May 2018
....” 13. Patchett, “Witnessing Craft”; Patchett, “Taxidermist’s Apprentice”; Straughan, “Entangled Corporeality.” 14. Snaebjörnsdóttir and Wilson, Nanoq . 15. Patchett and Foster, “Repair Work.” 16. Patchett, Foster, and Lorimer, “Biogeographies of a Hollow-Eyed Harrier.” 17...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 37–56.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., inviting them to become part of an expanding public witnessing the experiment: Dear Friends, Please join us in an extended moment of suspense: two weeks ago, X was artificially inseminated with sperm from an anonymous donor and she may be pregnant. This morning a small group of academics, artists...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 291–294.
Published: 01 May 2014
... trouble. 2 Spending time in these spaces has prompted me to think about ethics through concepts like witness, hope and inheritance (much of this work is a collaboration with Deborah Bird Rose). Through these experiences—and an ongoing engagement with, in particular, the work of Maria Puig de la...
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