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  1. Food Desert Imperialism - Duke University Press

    Mar 1, 2025 · Mapping the prominent critiques of the food desert onto the ideologies, practices, and moral orientations of the colonial desert imaginary, this article shows how the imaginary …

  2. Mountains, Monuments, and Other Matter: Environmental Affects

    May 1, 2015 · The rings of rocks fit naturally in this desert landscape, and the mountains offer the supportive sense of “acceptance and rest” in death, even as their vastness accentuates the …

  3. Sacrifice Zones | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press

    Mar 1, 2023 · Abstract This article provides a genealogy and analysis of the concept of a sacrifice zone. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research, the article traces the origins and …

  4. Volume 17 Issue 1 - Duke University Press

    Food Desert Imperialism: The Colonial Legacy of the Food Desert Concept Erica Zurawski Abstract View article

  5. Climate Trauma, or the Affects of the Catastrophe to Come

    May 1, 2018 · It is Povinelli’s geontological figure of the desert in radical form. For Povinelli, the desert is both a symptom of and diagnostic of the modes of power of late liberalism rather than …

  6. Beyond Homecoming - Duke University Press

    Jul 1, 2025 · This article examines the widely celebrated “homecoming” of seven endangered Przewalski’s mares, transported from Australian zoos to Mongolia’s Dzungarian Gobi Desert in …

  7. Global Ideas in Local Places: The Humanities in Environmental ...

    May 1, 2012 · The Desert Channels project is a practical idea from the humanities. Writing a book together is, of course, just one of many ways to enrich the local/global conversations that are …

  8. Protocol | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press

    Jul 1, 2023 · Her research has focused on genocide studies, multispecies ethnography, and science and technology studies. In the Western Indian Ocean, she conducted ethnographic …

  9. Being Dumped | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press

    May 1, 2019 · The global dump is a desert extending on land and in the hypoxic zones of the oceans. The more of it there is, the more it grows—mimicking the activity of what the Greeks …

  10. Desktop Prospecting and Extractivism at Home - Duke University …

    Nov 1, 2023 · Abstract Government-run geological surveys have increasingly facilitated exploration for potential mines by inviting novice prospectors to sift through old datasets prior …