"Ecologies of Gender: Contemporary Nature Relations and the Nonhuman Turn examines the role of gender in recent debates about the nonhuman turn in the humanities, and critically explores the implications for a contemporary theory of gender and nature relations.
The interdisciplinary contributions in this volume each provides theoretical reflections based on an analysis of specific naturecultural processes. They reveal how ""ecologies of gender"" are constructed through aesthetic, epistemological, political, technological and economic practices that shape multispecies and material interrelations as well as spatial and temporal orderings. The volume includes contributions from cultural anthropology, cultural studies, film studies, literary studies, media studies, philosophy and theatre studies. The essays are organized around four key dimensions of an ""ecological"" understanding of gender: ""creatures"", ""materials"", ""spaces"" and ""temporalities"".
The overall aim of the volume Ecologies of Gender: Contemporary Nature Relations and the Nonhuman Turn is to explore the potentialities and limitations of the nonhuman turn for a critical analysis and theory of ecologies of gender, and thereby make an original contribution to both the environmental humanities and gender studies.
This book will be of great interest to scholars and students from the interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities and environmental studies more broadly, as well as from gender studies and cultural theory."
Edited by:
Susanne Lettow,
Sabine Nessel
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032198316
ISBN 10: 1032198311
Series: Routledge Environmental Humanities
Pages: 250
Publication Date: 25 September 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
"Introduction: Ecologies of Gender and the Nonhuman Turn Susanne Lettow and Sabine Nessel Part 1 Creatures: The Biopolitics of Making Kin 1. Mulberry Intimacies and the Sweetness of Kinship Catriona Sandilands 2. The Vegetal Subjects of Feminist Speculative Fiction Natania Meeker 3. The Arboreal Feminine: An Analysis of Affect and Activism in Two Ecofeminist Re-Enchantment Narratives from India Swarnalatha Rangarajan Part 2: Materials: Agency in/of Transcorporeal Assemblages 4. Plastic Ambivalence Nicole Seymour 5. Political Drugs: Materiality in Testo Junkie Kathrin Peters 6. Unthinkable Ecologies in Theatres of the Anthropocene Ramona Mosse Part 3: Spaces: Landscapes and Architectures of Power and Imagination 7. Gender, Nature, Nonhuman Animal: Bird People (2014) and the Proliferation of Difference in Cinema Sabine Nessel 8. Wildlife Among Us. Post-Natural Worlds and Interspecies Encounters in Nicolette Krebitz’s Wild Andrea Seier 9. Creating Emotion with Space in Nanouk Leopold’s Brownian Movement Angelica Fenner 10. An Ecohumanist Perspective: Theorizing Ecofeminism through a Spatial Analysis of Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide Sangita Patil and N S Gundur Part 4: Temporalities: Histories, Presents and Futures to Change 11. The Figure of the Human in the ""White (M)anthropocene"". Philosophical Narratives on Sex, Race and Organic Kinship from 1800 to the Nonhuman Turn Susanne Lettow 12. Speculative Ecologies: Salmon Farming and Marine Microplastics as Slow Disasters Sven Bergmann 13. Futures of Plant-Human Mutualism. Science, Technology and Speculative Fiction Antónia Szabari"
Susanne Lettow is a Senior Researcher at the Margherita von Brentano Center for Gender Studies and teaches at the Institute of Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Sabine Nessel is a Professor for Film Studies in the Institute of Theatre Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
