The Midwife and the Poet

Abstract Triangulating narratives from a prospective mining site in northern Norway, this article works to identify (and render graspable) a particular effect of retroactive shock—tracing its resonance through experiences of chemical exposure, colonial racism, cultural erasure, and destruction of th...

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Published in:Environmental Humanities
Main Author: Reinert, Hugo
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Duke University Press 2019
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Norway
Northern Norway
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/22011919-7349455
https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article-pdf/11/1/137/1551281/137reinert.pdf
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spelling crdukeunivpr:10.1215/22011919-7349455 2024-06-02T08:12:05+00:00 The Midwife and the Poet Reinert, Hugo 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/22011919-7349455 https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article-pdf/11/1/137/1551281/137reinert.pdf en eng Duke University Press Environmental Humanities volume 11, issue 1, page 137-151 ISSN 2201-1919 2201-1919 journal-article 2019 crdukeunivpr https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-7349455 2024-05-07T13:16:17Z Abstract Triangulating narratives from a prospective mining site in northern Norway, this article works to identify (and render graspable) a particular effect of retroactive shock—tracing its resonance through experiences of chemical exposure, colonial racism, cultural erasure, and destruction of the built environment. Linking these experiences, the argument sets up and explores an analytical space within which the toxic modernity of planetary capitalism can resonate, structurally, with the racist violence of state colonialism: a space that also, the author suggests, describes an important dimension of Anthropocene experience itself. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Norway Duke University Press Norway Environmental Humanities 11 1 137 151
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