Description
For decades now, queer and trans scholars have been exploring how matters of gender and sexuality are also matters of ecology and environment. On the one hand, this has meant attending to how discourses of the ‘natural’ ground cis-heteronormativity, and to how cis-heteronormativity often grounds popular environmentalism. But it has extended far beyond this to complex accounts of how categories of gender, sexuality, race and the human are produced within agentic entangled worlds of more-than-human life and in/organic matter. Turning to ecologies and environments—the ‘natural world’—has helped further explore questions about extraction, exploitation, extinction, reproduction, health and purity that have always been concerns of queer and trans scholars.Some questions we will explore include: How can we engage the animality of the human in the full knowledge that the animalisation of some humans has long been a strategy of genocide? How might queer and trans theory’s long-standing problematisation of ‘nature’ and the ‘natural’ be mobilised in alliance with decolonial and Indigenous studies? What might it mean to revisit these critiques in the face of the anthropogenic destruction of ‘nature’? What insights, opportunities and problems are generated by ‘entanglement’ as a mode of relationality and of theorising ontology? What can we learn from queer and trans readings of planetary elements – earth, water, fire, air and more?
| Period | 30 Jun 2024 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | St Andrews, United KingdomShow on map |
Keywords
- queer ecology
- gender studies
- more-than-human
- queer theory
- hydrofeminism