Ecologies of Gender

Contemporary Nature Relations and the Nonhuman Turn
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-90239-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Routledge Environmental Humanities

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lettow, Susanne

Nessel, Sabine

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.