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Queer Ecology in Loïe Fuller's Modernist Dance and Magnus Hirschfeld's Die Transvestiten. Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Ina Linge
Dance orients the performer's body toward both environment and pleasure, yet the intersection of environmental and sexual attunement in dance practice remains an underexplored area of research. This article considers how environmental and sexual readings of dance practice can be brought together by proposing a queer ecological approach to modernist dance. Drawing on research in dance studies, feminist
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A Critical Introduction to Sex and Nature in the Anthropocene. Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Sarah Bezan,Ina Linge
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In Search of Lost Snails Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Thom van Dooren
Abstract The Hawaiian Islands were once home to one of the most diverse assemblages of terrestrial snails found anywhere on earth, with more than 750 recognized species. Today, however, the majority of these species are extinct, and most of those that remain are headed swiftly in the same direction. But this is just the crisis that we know about, that we can in some way quantify. In Hawai‘i, and all
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Myxomatosis and Radioactivity in Carlos Saura’s La caza (The Hunt, 1966) Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Fernando Varela
Abstract The myxoma virus (MYXV) was used in Australia in 1950 to control, albeit temporarily, the overpopulation of the invasive European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). A different strand of the virus was released in France two years later, resulting in the drastic decline of European rabbits in the Iberian Peninsula and the rest of Europe. The MYXV’s disease, myxomatosis, is a highly contagious
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The Bestiary in the Candy Aisle Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Andrew McCumber,Patrick Neil Dryden
Abstract Archaeology and anthropology treat the presence of animals in mythology and folklore as axiomatically about a culture’s ideas of nature. Sociology often assumes modernity no longer has such myths, but animal imagery abounds. In this article, the authors argue that our relationships with animals and nature are not primarily rational or scientific but formed through these images and the mythologies
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Tracking Meat of the Sand Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Pierre du Plessis
Abstract This article explores the skilled arts of tracking and gathering as methods for noticing and theorizing multispecies landscapes in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana. Tracking is typically used to describe a practice of following animals, usually for hunting, whereas gathering primarily refers to the collection of plant and fungal materials. The author presents a case in which these terms have
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Isn’t All Environmental Humanities “Environmental Humanities in Practice”? Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Dolly Jørgensen
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“Bringing Humanity Full Circle Back into the Sea” Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Helen M. Rozwadowski
Abstract Futurists have recognized the ocean’s depths as resembling space in its promise as a setting for human success, survival, or redemption. Imagined futures of the ocean have been intertwined with reflections on human evolution and what it means to be human. In 1962 Jacques Cousteau announced Homo aquaticus, a vision involving both technological intervention and natural adaptation to intentionally
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Child Minds at the End of the World Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Marco Caracciolo
Abstract This article focuses on the evocation of children’s experiences in fiction that engages with postapocalyptic scenarios. It examines three contemporary novels from profoundly different geographic contexts—Yoko Tawada’s The Emissary, Niccolò Ammaniti’s Anna, and Diane Cook’s The New Wilderness—that evoke a child’s experience of societal collapse in the wake of a catastrophic event. Diverse meanings
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The CAFO in the Bioreactor Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Julie Guthman
Abstract A 2020 report published by the think tank RethinkX predicts the “second domestication of plants and animals, the disruption of the cow, and the collapse of industrial livestock farming” by 2035. Although typical of promissory discourses about the future of food, the report gives unusual emphasis to the gains of efficiency and near limitless growth that will come by eradicating confined livestock
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Student Engagement and Environmental Awareness Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Nancy G. Barrón,Sibylle Gruber,Gavin Huffman
Abstract This article collaboration addresses the importance of contextualizing current climate change discussions in twenty-first-century ecocomposition classrooms. It specifically focuses on the practical significance of what students’ writing and research can accomplish in and outside the classroom, and on how student involvement in the research process can create spaces for new awareness and renewed
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Agency and Multispecies Communities in Picture Books Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 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. Drawing on new materialism and multispecies studies, the article argues that these two picture books exemplify the possibilities
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“The Great Chain of Being Come Undone” Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Calista McRae
Abstract This review essay explores three recent academic studies situated at the intersection of Black studies and animal studies: Joshua Bennett’s Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man, Bénédicte Boisseron’s Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question, and Zakiyyah Iman Jackson’s Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World. As these books make clear, wide-ranging possibilities
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Defining Energy in Nineteenth-Century Native American Literature Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 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. These authors, though, resisted extractive metaphors for energy and fuel, offering more organic and intimate visions of energy instead. Using energy humanities
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Making the Environmental Humanities Consequential in “The Age of Consequences” Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Noel Castree
Abstract This article suggests that global environmental assessments (GEAs) may be a potent means for making the environmental humanities more consequential outside universities. So far most GEAs have been led by geoscientists, with mainstream social science in support. However, there is no reason why the concept of assessment cannot be elasticated to include the concerns of interpretive social science
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The Inclusive Philosophy of Michel Serres for Our Time of Crisis Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Peter Johnson
Abstract Michel Serres’s philosophy is scantly known outside France. In this review essay the author takes up three books that Serres published late on in his life and that engage in different ways with the environmental emergency. These short eminently readable books appeal to a wide audience and at the same time draw together major concerns and approaches from his life’s work. In each of the three
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Aesthetics in a Changing World—Reflecting the Anthropocene Condition through the Works of Jason deCaires Taylor and Robert Smithson Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Philip Hüpkes,Gabriele Dürbeck
Abstract This article focuses on an important aspect of aesthetics in the context of the Anthropocene: the situatedness of aesthetic techniques and operations within earth’s (changing) materiality. Aesthetics is not only a way of making sensible but also contributes ontologically to the world it makes sensible. In this view aesthetics does not rely on a subject’s capacity to apprehend the world as
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Oil as Solution to the Problems of Oil Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Kyle Conway,Manjulika E. Robertson
Abstract In North America, one factor shaping petromodernity is the idea that oil offers a solution to the very problems it causes. This article examines that paradox, focusing on the 1950s. It analyzes a set of pamphlets from the Petroleum Industry School Program that were distributed by the American Petroleum Institute (API), the trade organization that promotes the US oil industry. It first describes
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Radical Stories in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 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. The botanical garden’s curatorial practices silenced histories of colonial occupation, frontier violence, colonial agriculture
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Drawing the Line on Oil in Petrochemical America Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Heather Houser
Abstract Petrochemical America, an art book and atlas cocreated by photographer Richard Misrach and landscape architect Kate Orff, is a rejoinder to commonplaces about oil’s invisibility and evasion of representation. The book’s visualizations produce a narrative atlas that depicts the oil industry’s transformations of US landscapes and communities. Central to this depiction is Orff’s use of the line
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In the “Fissures of Infrastructure” Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Kate Lewis Hood
Abstract This article offers an account of “toxic infrastructures” as mutually material and discursive arrangements operating in the postwar, postcrash, and settler colonial landscapes of the United States. It specifically responds to Jennifer Scappettone’s multimodal poetic work The Republic of Exit 43, developed after the author’s discovery that the industrial landfill site she grew up alongside
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Art for a Future Planet Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Joanna Page
Abstract Joanna Zylinska proposes a “feminist counterapocalypse,” which would resist the anthropocentric, technicist perspectives that shape apocalyptic narratives of climate crisis. Like Anna Tsing’s exploration of collaborative survival, Zylinska’s counterapocalypse is founded on the notion of precarity as a shared condition of life in the postindustrial world. This article focuses on art-science
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Bird Banding and the Environmental Humanities Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Kristoffer Whitney
Abstract This article tells a history of bird banding—the practice of catching and affixing birds with durable bands with the intent of tracking their movements and behavior—by focusing on the embodied aspects of this method in field ornithology. Going beyond a straightforward, institutional history of bird banding, the article uses the writings of biologists in the US Bureau of Biological Survey and
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Situated Kinmaking and the Population “Problem” Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Katharine Dow,Janelle Lamoreaux
Abstract Contemporary concern about climate change has been accompanied by a resurgence in questions about what part human numbers play in environmental degradation and species loss. What does population mean, and how is this concept being put to use at a moment when the urgency of climate change seems to elevate the appeal to/of numbers? What role has and should kinship play in understanding “population”
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Whale Falls, Suspended Ground, and Extinctions Never Known Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Michelle Bastian
Abstract This article contributes to work within extinction studies by asking how one might “story” extinctions of creatures that have been, and will remain, unknown. It grapples with losses that have been unrecorded, unmissed, and unrecognizable via the “lively ethography” approach to storying extinction. This approach, developed by Deborah Bird Rose and Thom van Dooren, seeks to draw readers into
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Fermenting Feminism as Methodology and Metaphor Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Lauren Fournier
AbstractThis article proposes the possibilities of fermentation, or microbial transformation, as a material practice and speculative metaphor through which to approach today’s transnational feminisms. The author approaches this from the perspective of their multiyear curatorial experiment Fermenting Feminism, looking to multidisciplinary practices across the arts that bring together fermentation and
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Ethical Acknowledgment of Soil Ecosystem Integrity amid Agricultural Production in Australia Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Anne Therese O’Brien
AbstractThe growing adoption of no-till cropping and other minimal-impact farming practices in recent decades signals a shift in how soil is understood and valued. Eschewing vigorous disturbance, standard in the West (and beyond) since the Neolithic Revolution, farmers instead learn to intervene with the soil profile more sensitively. This article focuses on the concept of soil integrity and its significance
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Toward a Relational Materiality of Soils Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Anna Krzywoszynska,Greta Marchesi
AbstractAs environmental matters, soils have been an object of inquiry primarily for the natural sciences, with social scientists and environmental humanities scholars occupied with the surface dramas of territory and its products. The invisibility of soils in much of public and intellectual life speaks not only to the literal invisibility of their subterranean elements but also to their taken-for-granted
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Justus von Liebig Makes the World Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Greta Marchesi
Abstract Just as capitalism’s exchange of commodities between disparate locations requires a singular referent of value, so does the movement of ideas and practices necessitate consolidations of meaning through complex fields of people, landscapes, and things. Introducing key innovations in agricultural and chemical science, Justus von Liebig’s chemical model of soil fertility involved a profound reenvisioning
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Anabiosis and the Liminal Geographies of De/extinction Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Adam Searle
Abstract The spectacle of de-extinction is often forward facing at the interface of science fiction and speculative fact, haunted by extinction’s pasts. Missing from this discourse, however, is a robust theorization of de-extinction in the present. This article presents recent developments in the emergent fields of resurrection biology and liminality to conceptualize the anabiotic (not living nor dead)
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Nonhuman Labor and the Making of Resources Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Anna Krzywoszynska
In policy, scientific, and grower communities, soils are being recognized as living and lively ecosystems. This liveliness is driving conceptual and practical transformations of agricultural labor from working the soil to working with the soil, promising to replace human labor with the activities of soil biota. This change to the material process of soil labor will deliver, it is hoped, a true ecological
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Everyday Ecocide, Toxic Dwelling, and the Inability to Mourn Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Owain Jones, Kate Rigby, Linda Williams
In responding to the spatiotemporally specific geographies of extinction charted in the articles in this special section, this article reflects on the sociocultural factors that inform the ways in which extinction is framed and impede recognition of the enormity of the anthropogenic extinction event in which we are all bound. This article argues that we are living in an era of ecocide, where the degradation
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Commentary on the “Anthropocene in Chile” Manifesto Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-11-01 Jan Zalasiewicz
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Death of a Guinea Pig Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-11-01 María Elena García
Abstract During ethnographic research on the biopolitics of culinary nationalism in Peru, I visited a guinea pig breeding farm north of Lima. Guinea pigs are considered “food animals” in the Andes. That encounter with pregnant guinea pigs—and with one guinea pig in particular who was tossed out of her enclosure and left to die—led me to a visceral questioning of my methodological and political approaches
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A Comment on the Anthropocene Manifesto Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-11-01 Lesley Green
P resent challenges and potential futures; principles for a pact on coexistence; proposals for living and thinking the Anthropocene in Chile: the core sections of the Manifesto speak to the present with the hope of activating futures other than those that, on current course, are the inevitable destination. How not to get there? How “to invent new possible futures”? The Manifesto offers a basis for
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Toward an Ethological Poetics Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-11-01 Stuart Cooke
In an attempt to respond to the West’s general obliviousness to nonhuman semiosis, this article proposes a method for appreciating nonhuman poetics. By combining the critical tools of poetics and literary theory with insights from ethology and biosemiotics, Stuart Cooke outlines a method of criticism for nonhuman creative compositions. Drawing on the work of Gerald Bruns, Elizabeth Grosz, and Gilles
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Extractive Fictions and Postextraction Futurisms Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-11-01 Matthew S. Henry
This essay operates at the intersection of the energy humanities and environmental justice studies to survey extractive fictions, a term I use to describe literature and other cultural forms that render visible the socioecological impacts of extractive capitalism and problematize extraction as a cultural practice. The essay first theorizes extraction and examines cultural representations of coal and
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An Introduction to “The Anthropocene in Chile: Toward a New Pact of Coexistence” Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-11-01 Manuel Tironi
W e, academics, thinkers, activists and professionals, Chileans and foreigners, from the broad spectrum of natural and social sciences, the humanities, the arts and the spiritual world, make a call to rethink from its basis the way in which we inhabit “the human” and its place in the history of the Earth. Our call emerges in response to the Anthropocene, a notion proposed recently by the Subcommittee
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An Invitation to Live Together Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-11-01 Marisol de la Cadena
[God] created one man only, dictates Scripture to us, yet if the slightest trait [difference] was enough, there would easily stick out thousands of different species of man: they display, namely, white, red, black and grey hair; white, rosy, tawny and black faces; straight, stubby, crooked, flattened, and aquiline noses; among them we find giants and pygmies, fat and skinny people, erect, humpy, brittle
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Beautiful Creatures for Adventures in a Vulnerable World Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-11-01 Manuel Tironi
A sking friends that have inspired my thoughts and practices to comment on the Manifesto was both troubling and exciting. Troubling because the Manifesto is a creature that is born from a very specific and place-based experiment, with its own set of questions, expectations, and limitations. Who could understand the tender care that the creature needs? Who could connect with the messy although life-enabling
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Teaching the Environmental Humanities Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-11-01 Emily O’Gorman, Thom van Dooren, Ursula Münster, Joni Adamson, Christof Mauch, Sverker Sörlin, Marco Armiero, Kati Lindström, Donna Houston, José Augusto Pádua, Kate Rigby, Owain Jones, Judy Motion, Stephen Muecke, Chia-ju Chang, Shuyuan Lu, Christopher Jones, Lesley Green, Frank Matose, Hedley Twidle, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Bethany Wiggin, Dolly Jørgensen
This article provides the first international overview and detailed discussion of teaching in the environmental humanities (EH). It is divided into three parts. The first offers a series of regional overviews: where, when, and how EH teaching is taking place. This part highlights some key regional variability in the uptake of teaching in this area, emphasizing important differences in cultural and
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Chronophilia; or, Biding Time in a Solar System Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-11-01 Marcus Hall
Having evolved in a dynamic solar system, all life on earth has adapted to and depends on recurring and repeating cycles of light, heat, and gravity. Our sleep cycles, reproductive cycles, and emotional cycles are all linked in varying ways to planetary motion even though we continually disrupt, modify, or extend these cycles to go about our personal and collective business. This essay explores how
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The Archive and the Lake Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-05-01 Miriam Tola
Abstract Located in the Prenestino neighborhood of Rome, Italy, the former chemical-textile plant Ex-SNIA Viscosa has been a site of labor exploitation, toxicity, and struggle since the 1920s. Comprising postindustrial ruins, an urban lake, and myriad species, the area has been reclaimed by activists engaged in a project of governance from below. This essay begins by exploring how the entwinement of
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Restoring Eden in the Amish Anthropocene Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-05-01 Nicole Welk-Joerger
Abstract Since Eugene Stoermer and Paul Crutzen popularized the concept the “Anthropocene” in 2000, scholars from many disciplines have taken up and adapted the term to better account for multiple worldviews and environmentalist strategies. However, such attempts have not solved the problems that motivated the creation of the analytic in the first place: convincing lay individuals to actively respond
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The Visual Politics of Environmental Justice Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-05-01 Teena Gabrielson
This article examines the visual politics at work in website photographs depicting environmental justice issues in the United States. Based on roughly 580 web-published photos collected from environmental justice organizations, the Environmental Protection Agency, the mainstream media, and traditional environmental organizations in the US, this article examines variations in how the subjects of environmental
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Afterword Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-05-01 Stacy Alaimo
A s many academics debate who is the “anthro” of the anthropocene, often doing so from seemingly disembodied vantage points, this important collection of essays demonstrates that toxic embodiment is a crucial lens for rethinking the human, not as an abstract force acting on the world, but as fleshy beings who are inseparable from their transcorporeal entanglements within the world. While the public
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Asbestos Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-05-01 Sasha Litvintseva
Asbestos is a fibrous mineral. Airborne asbestos—similar to nuclear radiation and chemical atmospheric pollutants—is invisible to the naked eye, and living and breathing alongside it has deferred toxic effects on human bodies. The toxicity of asbestos operates by breaching the boundary that appears to separate the insides of our bodies from our outward environments. Asbestos attests to the fact that
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Itineraries of Conflict in Arundhati Roy’s Walking with the Comrades Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-05-01 Alok Amatya
This article studies the depiction of indigenous struggles against the grab of minerals, crude oil, and other natural resources by private and government corporations in works such as Arundhati Roy’s travel essay “Walking with the Comrades” (2010). Roy’s narrative of her journey across the dense forests of Bastar in east-central India re-articulates the significance of this contested environmental
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(Com)Post-Capitalism Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-05-01 Bradley M. Jones
This article explores the cultivation of life in ruins. At the foothills of Appalachia, I focus on a permaculture farmer—Sally of Clearwater Creek—fostering arts of (making a) living on a damaged planet. Ethnography in the Anthropocene requires tending and attending to those making the best of the mess that’s been made: a commitment to noticing things not (only) falling apart, but (also) coming back
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Toxic Bodies Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-05-01 Wibke Straube
Tracing ticks in two different artworks and Leslie Feinberg's activist writing, Wibke Straube takes their lead in this article from philosopher Donna Haraway and her suggestion to think about engag ...
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The Midwife and the Poet Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-05-01 Hugo Reinert
Triangulating narratives from a prospective mining site in northern Norway, this article works to identify (and render graspable) a particular effect of retroactive shock— tracing its resonance through experiences of chemical exposure, colonial racism, cultural erasure, and destruction of the built environment. Linking these experiences, the argument sets up and explores an analytical space within
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Making Live and Letting Die Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-05-01 Nina Lykke
With a focus on global cancer epidemics, the article discusses biopolitics in the Anthropocene, against the background of a notion of dual governmentality, implying that efforts to make population ...
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The Influence of Climate Fiction Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2018-11-01 Matthew Schneider-Mayerson
Abstract Climate fiction—literature explicitly focused on climate change—has exploded over the last decade, and is often assumed to have a positive ecopolitical influence by enabling readers to imagine potential climate futures and persuading them of the gravity and urgency of climate change. Does it succeed? And whom does it reach? A qualitative survey of 161 American readers of 19 works of climate
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Composting Feminisms and Environmental Humanities Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2018-11-01 Jennifer Mae Hamilton,Astrida Neimanis
Abstract Composting is a material labor whereby old scraps are transformed—through practices of care and attention—into nutrient-rich new soil. In this provocation, we develop “composting” as a material metaphor to tell a particular story about the environmental humanities. Building on Donna Haraway’s work, we insist “it matters what compostables make compost.” Our argument is twofold. First, we contend
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Seed Care in the Palm Oil Sector Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2018-11-01 Sophie Chao
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Eco(il)logical Knowledge Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2018-11-01 João Afonso Baptista
In this article, I narrate an ethnographic storyline that involves forest inhabitants, local politicians, development professionals, and scientific researchers in both representational and nonrepresentational worlds of knowing. I discuss how and why, in Angola, making forest knowledge through relations of distance to the forests is crucial for attaining institutional legitimacy over the forests. This
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Media Ecologies of Plant Invasion Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2018-11-01 Erin Despard, Michael Gallagher
In popular conservation discourse, Rhododendron ponticum is portrayed as an alien invader let loose on the British countryside by misguided gardeners. In Scotland, eradication campaigns tend to be favoured over more pragmatic approaches to management, even though the methods employed can be destructive and long-term success is often limited. In line with recent work critiquing categorical approaches
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Mis/translation, Colonialism, and Environmental Conflict Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2018-11-01 Liv Østmo, John Law
This article describes a colonial encounter in north Norway between Sami practices for fishing and knowing the natural world, and the conservation policies of state policy makers. In Sami practices the world is populated by powerful and morally lively human and nonhuman actors. In caring for the land and its lakes in practical ways it is important to sustain respectful relations with those actors.
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Seeing Environmental Violence in Deep Time Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2018-05-01 Richard D. G. Irvine
What does it mean to do violence in deep time? How is deep time evoked in our understanding of environmental harm? Environmental transformations have figured prominently in the recent history of Mongolia. Shifts in land use have been associated with severe pasture degradation, and the precarity of herding livelihoods has been a factor accelerating urbanization. Most recently, the intensification of
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What Is the Terroir of Synthetic Yeast? Environmental Humanities (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2018-05-01 Erika Amethyst Szymanski
Humans and yeast have a long history of productive collaboration in making a global array of fermented foodstuffs including wine, bread, and beer. Synthetic biology is now changing the shape of human-yeast work. The Sc2.0, or “synthetic yeast,” project aims to completely reengineer the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome, designing an organism with improved capacities for scientific research and diverse