Queer Ecologies

Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands is Professor of Environmental Studies and Canada Research Chair in Sustainability and Culture at York University. She is author of The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy.Bruce Erickson is a post-doctoral fellow in Environmental History at Nipissing University.

Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire is an essential contribution to the theoretical, political, and cultural investigations at the intersection of queer theory and ecological studies.24.2 June 2011(Organization & Environment) Queer Ecologies must guide the development of our sexual politics, the visions of our environmental activisms, the re-viewing of our biosocial histories, the expansion of our environmental justice initiatives, and the engendering of, as contributor Dianne Chisholm writes, 'an ecological future for queer desire'.Vol. 37, No. 4, Summer 2012(SIGNS) [V]ibrant texts, brimming with possibilities for rethinking, rereading, and reinflecting the links between perception, ontology, epistemology, politics, and ethics. ... [A]llow[s] for the possibility of further reflections on the material conditions of intellectual inquiry, and for what materialities our 'immaterial labors' might creatively enact, change, transform.(Women's Studies Quarterly) As the first book-length overview of the subject, Queer Ecologies makes a major, much-needed contribution to this important present and future debate.(The Goose) Readers will come away from Queer Ecologies with a complex understanding of the dangerous assumptions that shape environmental discourses, as well as the importance of environmental considerations to queer theorizing and movement building. The queer ecological framework offered in this collection has valuable insights for readers across a broad spectrum of interests. 1/5/2011(elevatedifference.com)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Genealogy of Queer Ecologies / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce EricksonPart 1. Against Nature? Queer Sex, Queer Animality1. Eluding Capture: The Science, Culture, and Pleasure of "Queer" Animals / Stacy Alaimo2. Enemy of the Species / Ladelle McWhorter3. Penguin Family Values: The Nature of Planetary Environmental Reproductive Justice / Noël Sturgeon4. Queernaturecultures / David BellPart 2. Green, Pink, and Public: Queering Environmental Politics5. Non-white Reproduction and Same-Sex Eroticism: Queer Acts against Nature / Andil Gosine6. From Jook Joints to Sisterspace: The Role of Nature in Lesbian Alternative Environments in the United States / Nancy C. Unger7. Polluted Politics? Confronting Toxic Discourse, Sex Panic, and Eco-Normativity / Giovanna Di Chiro8. Undoing Nature: Coalition Building as Queer Environmentalism / Katie Hogan9. Fragments, Edges, and Matrices: Retheorizing the Formation of a So-called Gay Ghetto through Queering Landscape Ecology / Gordon Brent IngramPart 3. Desiring Nature? Queer Attachments10. "The Place, Promised, That Has Not Yet Been": The Nature of Dislocation and Desire in Adrienne Rich's Your Native Land/Your Life and Minnie Bruce Pratt's Crime against Nature / Rachel Stein11. "fucking close to water": Queering the Production of the Nation / Bruce Erickson12. Melancholy Natures, Queer Ecologies / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands13. Biophilia, Creative Involution, and the Ecological Future of Queer Desire / Dianne ChisholmList of ContributorsIndex