Infinite Affinities: Work from the Queer Ecology Hanky Project

Ecotone ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-112
Author(s):  
Vanessa Adams ◽  
Mary Tremonte
Keyword(s):  
Queer Ecology

A Backward Glance for a Queer Utopian Future: Genesis, Climate Change, and Hope as a Hermeneutic

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 466-494
Author(s):  
Brian James Tipton
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Biblical Narratives ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Rhetorical Discourse ◽  
Queer Ecology ◽  
A Performance

Abstract This article explores the ways in which biblical narratives and queer ecocritical voices can converge to recognize the importance of an intersectional climate change movement: to show that queer ecology matters. Specifically, I argue for an alternative approach to biblical ecocriticism, constructed around a queer(ed) biblical performance. I employ José Esteban Muñoz’s conceptualization of a queer utopian futurity, Lee Edelman’s critique of the political and rhetorical discourse centered on reproductive futurity, and Nicole Seymour’s blending of queer theory and ecocriticism in order to analyze conversations held by a cohort of the environmentally engaged nyc queer community. A performance and retelling of the story of Joseph(ine) in Genesis illustrates how queer engagement with biblical narratives offers an alternative to the dominant narrative of the climate change movement: “We must do it for our kids, for our grandkids.”

Attack of the Queer Atomic Mutants

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Seymour
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Half Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Conjoined Twins ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Atomic Age ◽  
Ecological Implications ◽  
Queer Communities ◽  
Alternate Reality ◽  
Queer Ecology

This chapter examines the alternate reality of the 2006 novel Half Life, wherein the United States has implemented a program of self-bombing to atone for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This bombing gives rise to a politicized minority of conjoined twins—modeled satirically on, and overlapping with, queer communities—who then serve as emblems of peaceful, post-nuclear coexistence. In examining Half Life's revision of Atomic Age history, this chapter focuses on the queer ecological implications of its narrative form. This chapter studies the novel's so-called “ironic environmentalism”; in so doing, it builds on previous work in environmentalist rhetoric and establishes irony as a new topic of inquiry for queer ecology.

Urban political ecology III

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 446-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nik Heynen
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Urban Geography ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Urban Political Ecology ◽  
Feminist Political Ecology ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The City ◽  
Queer Ecology

Given the ongoing importance of nature in the city, better grappling with the gendering and queering of urban political ecology offers important insights that collectively provides important political possibilities. The cross-currents of feminist political ecology, queer ecology, queer urbanism and more general contributions to feminist urban geography create critical opportunities to expand UPE’s horizons toward more egalitarian and praxis-centered prospects. These intellectual threads in conversation with the broader Marxist roots of UPE, and other second-generation variants, including what I have previously called abolition ecology, combine to at once show the ongoing promises of heterodox UPE and at the same time contribute more broadly beyond the realm of UPE.

scholarly journals Sexual/Environmental Justice and Ecocriticism of the New Century

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Stein
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Key Words ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Queer Ecology

Key words: environmental justice, sexuality, reproductivity, food industry, queer ecology Environmental justice in the 21st century should advance in the exploration, both theoretical and practical, of aspects of identity such as sexuality and reproductivity, which up to the present have been less analyzed than aspects of race, class and gender. The novels of Ruth Ozeki illustrate brilliantly the intersection between justice related to the food industry and sexual justice. Moreover, queer environmental justice has largely benefited from the theoretical framework established by Cate Sandilands for queer ecology. Palabras clave: justicia medioambiental, sexualidad, reproducción, industria alimentaria, ecología queer La justicia medioambiental del siglo XXI debe avanzar hacia la exploración, tanto teórica como práctica, de aspectos de la identidad del individuo tales como la sexualidad y la reproductividad, menos analizadas hasta la fecha desde este punto de vista, que las variables de raza, clase o género. Las novelas de Ruth Ozeki ilustran de manera excelente la intersección entre la justicia relacionada con la industria alimentaria y la justicia sexual. Al mismo tiempo, la justicia medioambiental de carácter queer se ha beneficiado en gran medida de los marcos teóricos establecidos por Cate Sandilands para atender cuestiones de ecología queer.

Queer ecology

2018 ◽  
pp. 448-453
Author(s):  
Nicole Seymour
Keyword(s):  
Queer Ecology
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