Sophie Chao on “Plantation” in the living lexicon of the journal Environmental Humanities.
Environmental Humanities (journal)
“Plantation”
“A Political Ecology of Desire: Between Extinction, Anxiety, and Flourishing”
This article brings together feminist technoscience and more-than-human theory on care with Lacanian psychoanalytic theories of anxiety and desire.
“‘Bringing Humanity Full Circle Back into the Sea’: Homo aquaticus, Evolution, and the Ocean”
“This article historicizes the casual and common understanding that humans are connected to the sea by investigating the precursors to the Homo aquaticus idea, the attempts to realize this prediction through technology, and the legacies emerging from it.”
“The Less Selfish Gene: Forest Altruism, Neoliberalism, and the Tree of Life”
“Why have millions of readers and viewers become magnetized by the hitherto arcane field of plant communication? The article argues that the contemporary appeal of plant communication is rooted in a quest for alternative modes of being to neoliberalism, modes more accommodating of the coexistence of cooperation and competition in human and more-than-human communities.”
“Anxieties of Access: Remembering as a Lake”
This article explores the nature of remembering as a lake, with a lake, or through a lake; the differential relationships, knowledge, and perspectives contained within; and the potentially troubling implications found at the intersection of scientific and humanistic perspectives on lake being.
“Radical Stories in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden: Emergent Ecologies’ Challenges to Colonial Narratives and Western Epistemologies”
On the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town, 1913, and the different stories it conveyed.
“Carbon Vitalism: Life and the Body in Climate Denial”
This article names and examines carbon vitalism, a strain of climate denial centered on the moral recuperation of carbon dioxide—and thus fossil fuels.
“Environmental Humanities: Entering a New Time”
In this short piece, the new editors in chief of Environmental Humanities reflect on the state of the field as well as of the journal.
"Seeing Environmental Violence in Deep Time: Perspectives from Contemporary Mongolian Literature and Music"
This article focuses on contemporary literary and musical interpretations of changing relationships between humans and the environment in Mongolia. The author explores how these works relate to deep time, and crosshatches biographical, mythological, and geologic understandings of time.
"Mis/translation, Colonialism, and Environmental Conflict"
The article explores the opposing practices and philosophies between the Sámi people and state policymakers in northern Norway in terms of the human-environment relationship with a particular focus on language translation issues.