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“Global Ideas in Local Places: The Humanities in Environmental Management”
Libby Robin explores four key drivers of conservation initiatives: place, landscape, biodiversity, and livelihood.
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"Unruly Edges: Mushrooms as Companion Species"
Anna Tsing’s essay opens a door to multispecies landscapes as protagonists for histories of the world.
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"Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres (1991) and Archival Reimaginations of Eco-Cosmopolitanism"
This article blurs the boundaries of literature, agriculture, public history, grassroots political activism, and public policymaking in order to problematize the current eco-cosmopolitan trajectory of ecocritical theory.
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"The Land in Gorkhaland: On the Edges of Belonging in Darjeeling, India"
Sarah Besky explores the interactions of workers, students, and city residents with environmental events, crumbling infrastructure, and wildlife in Darjeeling, with a focus on the role of the district as a site of extraction.
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"Remembering the Elizabeth Bay Reclamation and the Holocene Sunset in Sydney Harbour"
Denis Byrne explores the 1880s reclamation of the Elizabeth Bay in Sydney Harbour, encountering historical influences such as sandstone wall constructions, buried objects, and colonial narratives. He argues in this article that archaeology has a role to play in bringing reclamations and other aspects of the Anthropocene into view.
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Hatmaker, Susie, "On Mattering: A Coal Ash Flood and the Limits of Environmental Knowledge"
Susie Hatmaker investigates the largest flood of coal ash in United States history in 2008 as an event at once monumental and insignificant.
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“The Armchair Traveler’s Guide to Digital Environmental Humanities”
Finn Arne Jørgensen brings Wolfgang Schivelbusch’s analysis of the relationship between technology, media, and the perception of landscape into the digital age as a way of examining the spatiality of digital media and the natural world.
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"'Not Promising a Landfall ...': An Autotopographical Account of Loss of Place, Memory and Landscape"
Owain Jones raises questions about the relationships between self, time, memory, materiality, and place, using a non-representational creative approach based on image and textual collage.
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"Mountains, Monuments, and other Matter: Environmental Affects at Manzanar"
Investigating the natural landscapes and built structures at the Manzanar National Historic Site, the first of ten incarceration camps to open in 1941 and a temporary home for over 11,000 Japanese Americans, Jennifer K. Ladino
develops the notion of affective agency to describe the impacts generated by environments and objects there.
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"Wild and Scenic Wasteland: Conservation Politics in the Nuclear Wilderness"
Shannon Cram explores the slippery subjectivities of nuclear waste and nature at Washington State’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation, examining how this space is framed as both pristine habitat and waste frontier. She examines Hanford’s biological vector control program through the fruit fly and discusses how vector control uses instances of nuclear trespass to articulate the boundary between contaminated and uncontaminated. She concludes that nature is being recruited to do what the U.S. Department of Energy cannot: solve Hanford’s nuclear waste problem.