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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 (2013) 3 (1): 93–109.
Published: 01 May 2013
... the door to a world in which we can begin to negotiate life membership of an ecological community of kindred beings.” Thus, her animism, like indigenous animisms, was not a doctrine or orthodoxy, but rather a path, a way of life, a mode of encounter. In the spirit of open-ended encounter, I aim to bring...
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Published: 01 May 2014
Figure 1 The Aral sea, once the fourth largest lake in the world, has shrunk by 90% and is now a graveyard of ships. Photograph “The Aral Sea Loses Its Eastern Lobe.” NASA Earth Observatory, September 26, 2014.
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 554–570.
Published: 01 November 2024
... representations of fungi in Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of This World . Rather than overdetermining fungi as signs of decline, disease, and corruption, the article argues that the novel’s decomposers materialize antiplantation sentiment even as they underlie plantation grounds. Ultimately it suggests using...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 378–397.
Published: 01 November 2017
...: Anthropological Perspectives on Life . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . Pappalardo Robert T. “ Jupiter’s Water Worlds: Water Lurks beneath the Surfaces of Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto .” In Alien Seas: Oceans in Space , edited by Carroll Michael and Lopes Rosaly , 35...
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Published: 01 May 2012
Figure 10 Duck hunting, the world making game of powerful foreigners, is illegal in Costa Rica. Some farmers of Bagatzí have become poachers, intruding onto the government nature preserve in Palo Verde managed by conservation biologists. This mannequin with a wooden ‘gun’ was installed by park
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in Remembering the Elizabeth Bay Reclamation and the Holocene Sunset in Sydney Harbour
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2017
Figure 1. Pre–World War II aerial view with Elizabeth Bay at the left and Rushcutters Bay, center. City of Sydney Archives
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 145–161.
Published: 01 March 2022
... that speaks to the significance of the figure of the child in the environmental humanities: even in literature by and for adults, the integration of children’s perspectives on the end of the world performs important cultural work by questioning and decentering an understanding of the ecological crisis shaped...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 53–71.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Andrew Whitehouse Abstract Ever since Rachel Carson predicted a “silent spring” environmentalists have been carefully and anxiously listening to birds. More recently the musician and scientist Bernie Krause has examined the effects of human activity on avian soundscapes throughout the world. He...
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in Interspecies Affection and Military Aims: Was There a Totalitarian Dog?
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2018
Figure 3. Young Leningrad dog trainers at a pre–World War II All-Union Competition. Photograph courtesy of Natalia Eranina, St. Petersburg
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 501–506.
Published: 01 November 2019
... to commit to among each other to see it stumbling into this world? Opening up for scrutiny such a fragile and loved achievement, ungraspable for those that did not attend its earthly birth, was charged with fears and anxieties. And with excitement as well, because asking people from different geographies...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 414–432.
Published: 01 November 2021
... ontologically to the world it makes sensible. In this view aesthetics does not rely on a subject’s capacity to apprehend the world as a perceptually objectifiable entity. Focusing on works by Jason deCaires Taylor ( Anthropocene and La Gardinera de la Esperanza ) and Robert Smithson ( Spiral Jetty...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 21–41.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of Jacob von Uexküll's phenomenological biology and Jean-Luc Nancy's concepts of being singular plural and the sense of the world. 70 BBC News, “Reptile becomes a Father, at 111,” accessed 23 August 2012, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7850975.stm 69 Ibid., 58. 68 Godfrey...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 205–226.
Published: 01 May 2020
...) arguments about the production of abstract space, this article argues that Liebig’s assessment of nutrient extraction was essential to a broader midcentury reconsideration and reorganization of capitalist agricultural production, an example of what world ecologist Jason Moore calls an “organizational...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 64–86.
Published: 01 March 2023
...) to interpret the Anthropocene metaphysically. According to such interpretations, the Anthropocene imposes nothing less than a wholly new understanding of the world. This raises the question regarding the character of such an imposition. To develop this question, this article discusses three metaphysical...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 826–841.
Published: 01 November 2024
... conservation communities, this article explores the ontological questions raised by these hero and villain dynamics around radically different ideas of what caring for this butterfly means. The exploration of one insect and two care worlds intersects with the “one planet, many worlds” debate in a colonial...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 77–94.
Published: 01 May 2016
... storytelling animism Hawai‘i ethos worlding witness Unlike the many other seals at home in cold waters, the Hawaiian monk seal ( Monachus schauinslandi ) has taken to life in the tropics ( fig. 1 ). Members of the Monachus lineage, their ancestors evolved in the coastal waters off what is now...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 433–453.
Published: 01 November 2017
... about possible intelligent life forms out there but also about ourselves and our ability to perceive and interpret our surrounding world or, in phenomenological terms, our Lifeworld. As we go further to the right in the equation, the variables become more local, complex, and uncertain. The complexity...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 23–50.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and animals, this article follows chemicals into more-than-human realms. Fragile multispecies worlds have emerged in a complex landscape shaped by chemical weapons industries, municipal landfills, government remediation programs, real estate speculation, and a multitude of chemical and biological agents...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 129–144.
Published: 01 March 2022
... as well as the creation of artificial worlds for entertainment and scientific inquiry. Film is an artform in which worlds, weathers, and distinct forms of life entangle with one another as humans—both creators and spectators of film—critically speculate on the future of the biosphere and the future...
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