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Dark Ecology and Queer, Amphibious Vampires [PDF]

UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies, 2015
This paper argues that early vampire narratives can be reread as queer ecological fictions, darkly re-imagining the human as a liminal, amphibious entity. I highlight the importance of the amphibian—a slippery, ambiguous creature—to contemporary eco-deconstructive accounts that seek to disrupt and queer species categorizations, focusing in particular ...
Naomi Booth, Booth, N, Booth, Naomi
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Eco-Consciousness and Eco-Semiotics in Amruta Patil’s Kari: An Exploration of Queer Ecology

Space and Culture, India
The field of ecology in literature distorted the notion of humans being the centre of all living ecosystems, striving for an “environment that is neither solipsistically anthropocentric nor blatantly anti-humanitarian” (Lauer, 2018, p.13).
Jensi Helan J, Rashmi Borah
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Queer Fire: Ecology, Combustion and Pyrosexual Desire [PDF]

Feminist Review, 2018
We set out by noting the preference for circular flows in ecological thought, and the related abhorrence of inefficiency and waste that Western ecology shares with mainstream economic thinking. This has often been manifest in a shared disdain both for uncontained, free-burning fire and for ‘unmanaged’ sexual desire.
YUSOFF, K, Clark, N
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Queering the Tropics: A Cartography of Tropical Materialisms, Queer Ecology, and Spectral Tropicality

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
This special issue entitled “Queering the Tropics” explores how queering as a methodology and gender and sexuality as a critical rubric complicate the study of the tropics and conceptions of tropicality. It also engages with how the tropics as a worldly
Christian Jil R. Benitez, Gregory Luke Chwala, Anita Lundberg, S.N. Nyeck   +3 more
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Queer ecology through national park social media [PDF]

, 2023
A collaboration between Zion National Park and Stonewall National Monument produces two social media posts that give examples of queer ...
Abi Farish, Farish, Abi
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The 14 Steps Towards a Wonderful Failure

Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts, 2023
"Ufffff! So what are we going to do?" ... this is how this film/essay begins. It starts with a conversation between three (maybe more) people in the kitchen of an apartment.
Juan Luis Toboso
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T. J. Demos, Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture, and Director, Center for Creative Ecologies, University of California, Santa Cruz

Panorama, 2019
in my view, the most compelling cultural work is that which explores and develops modes of ecology-as-intersectionality, wherein political ecology links with Indigenous and/or queer rights activism and/or movements against police brutality, media ...
T. J. Demos
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An introduction to generative justice

Revista Teknokultura, 2016
Marx proposed that capitalism’s destructive force is caused, at root, by the alienation of labor value from its generators. Environmentalists have added the concept of unalienated ecological value, and rights activists added the unalienated expressive ...
Ron Eglash
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Re-articulation in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

The Grove, 2023
Zora Neale Hurston’s most acclaimed novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), juxtaposes the sensuous side of ecology with that of female sexuality and sensuousness, through the epiphany of the blossoming pear tree.
Divya Sharma
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Queering Tropical Nature: Decolonising Hetero-Ecologies through Indigenous Epistemes in My Father’s Garden and Man Tiger

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
Queer ecologies, an emerging debate in studies of the humanities, is an intersectional appeal for inclusivity of gender, sexuality, and ecology to dismantle hetero-ecological perceptions and embrace strangeness within nature.
Aritra Ghosal, Anindita Ghosal
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