The Environmental Humanities November 2024 issue came out a week ago, but I haven't had a chance to post a thread on it yet! I wanted to bring this massive amount of new #envhum scholarship to your attention. read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta... A thread... - ThreadSky

dollyjorgensen.bsky.social • 86 days ago

The Environmental Humanities November 2024 issue came out a week ago, but I haven't had a chance to post a thread on it yet! I wanted to bring this massive amount of new #envhum scholarship to your attention.
https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/issue/16/3
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dollyjorgensen.bsky.social•86 days ago

1. We start with our Environmental Humaniteis 2024 Best Article Prize announcement

Spoilers: The prize is goes to "When Gods Drown in Plastic: Vietnamese Whale Worship, Environmental Crises, and the Problem of Animism” by Aike P. Rots and Nhung Lu Rots https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/15/3/8/384013/When-Gods-Drown-in-PlasticVietnamese-Whale-Worship

dollyjorgensen.bsky.social•86 days ago

2. Bergit Arends, "Seeing the Anthropocene through Montage: John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea and Elizabeth Price’s BERLINWAL" examines montage as a structure to hold different materialities and multiple spatio-temporal scales, affording a decentering of the human.
https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/16/3/530/392346/Seeing-the-Anthropocene-through-MontageJohn

dollyjorgensen.bsky.social•86 days ago

3. Hannah Rachel Cole, “'Spurned Growths': Reading for Rot in The Kingdom of This World" examines representations of fungi as antiplantation sentiment in Alejo Carpentier’s novel El reino de este mundo
https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/16/3/554/392326/Spurned-Growths-Reading-for-Rot-in-The-Kingdom-of

dollyjorgensen.bsky.social•86 days ago

4. Gabriela Klier & Andrés Vaccari, "A Tentative Tangling of Tendrils: Making Oddkin with Kurt Vonnegut and Donna Haraway" discusses Vonnegut and Haraway's common vision centered on a relational and monstrous understanding of life that leads to an ethics of care.
https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/16/3/571/392321/A-Tentative-Tangling-of-TendrilsMaking-Oddkin-with

dollyjorgensen.bsky.social•86 days ago

5. Tessa Laird & Andrew Goodman, "Spot the Difference: Thinking-with Pattern’s Unsettling Powers" advocates for pattern’s radical provocation to think outside cultural conventions and neo-Darwinist constraints.
https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/16/3/590/392323/Spot-the-DifferenceThinking-with-Pattern-s

dollyjorgensen.bsky.social•86 days ago

6. Theo Reeves-Evison, "On Prospecting: Visual Culture between Extraction and Speculation" investigates how the search for resources generates a visual culture *of* prospecting and a visual culture *about* prospecting.
https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/16/3/603/392350/On-ProspectingVisual-Culture-between-Extraction

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