Perspectives Article
Representing Disaster with Resignation and Nostalgia: Japanese Men’s Responses to the 2011 Earthquake
Kambe analyzes the masculinist rhetoric of Japanese male writers and intellectuals’ reactions to the 2011 earthquake.
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Perspectives Article
Of Storms, Floods, and Flying Sharks: The Extreme Weather Hero in Contemporary American Culture
Susanne Leikam explores the extreme weather hero and performed masculinity in contemporary American pop culture through an analysis of the 2013 film Sharknado.
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"The Last Chance to Save the Planet? An Analysis of the Geoengineering Advocacy Discourse in the Public Debate"
From an analysis of 1500 articles published from 2005 to 2013, Anshelm and Hansson distill four storylines representing geoengineering advocacy in the public discourse in mass media.
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"Hope"
For the special section “Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities,” Eben Kirksey reflects on the nature of hope and argues for the importance of grounding it in communities of actual living animals, plants, and microbes.
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"Uncharismatic Invasives"
Looking at the case of organisms attached to tsunami debris rafting across the Pacific to Oregon, Jonathan L. Clark examines how invasive species managers think about the moral status of the animals they seek to manage.
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The Ecology of Yellow Fever in Antebellum New Orleans: Sugar, Water Control, and Urban Development
Epidemic yellow fever plagued New Orleans due to a series of environmental and demographic changes enabled by the rise of sugar production and urban development.
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What Is Yellow Fever? Disease and Causation in Environmental History
Rather than revealing the power of nature to shape human history, yellow fever is a disease that historically entangles nature and culture.
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"Hokusai's Great Wave Enters the Anthropocene"
In this commentary, Stefan Helmreich considers how Hokusai’s famous woodblock print, The Great Wave, has recently been leveraged into commentaries upon the Anthropocene, and how the image has been adapted to speak to the contemporary human-generated global oceanic crisis.
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"Ice Cores and the Temporalities of the Global Environment"
Alessandro Antonello and Mark Carey examine how the practices involved in drilling, analyzing, discussing, and using ice cores for both science and broader climate or environmental policies and cultures take part in constituting the temporalities of the global environment.
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"Preparing for Catastrophe on the Polar Frontier: An Antarctic Field Training Manual"
In this Special Section on Familiarizing the Extraterrestrial / Making Our Planet Alien, edited by Istvan Praet and Juan Francisco Salazar, Jessica O’Reilly compares 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.