UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies (E-Journal - York University)
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Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination
Full text linkReview of Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination by Nicole Seymour (2013, Illinois UP)
Part 2: Examining Heteronormativity, Reprocentricity, and Ecology
Full text linkThis is a portion of a roundtable discussion on queer ecologies held on 11 September 2014. The roundtable is also available as a podcast and was produced in collaboration with CoHearence, an initiative of graduate students in the Faculty of Environmental Studies suppored by NiCHE (Network in Canadian History and Environment)
Part 1: From Queer/Natures to Queer Ecologies
Full text linkThis is a portion of a roundtable discussion on queer ecologies held on 11 September 2014. The roundtable is also available as a podcast and was produced in collaboration with CoHearence, an initiative of graduate students in the Faculty of Environmental Studies suppored by NiCHE (Network in Canadian History and Environment)
Creative Subversions: Whiteness, Indigeneity, and the National Imaginary
Full text linkReview of Creative Subversions: Whiteness, Indigeneity, and the National Imaginary by Margot Francis (2011, UBC Press)
Conversations in Queer Ecologies: An Editorial
Full text linkThe opening editorial for Volume 19 of UnderCurrents
Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire
Full text linkReview of Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire by Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson, eds. (2010, Indiana UP)
'The Picture in my Head is my Reward'* The Mental Mapping of a Queer Urban Perspective
Full text linkUrban space is a productive force reflecting and affecting human interaction both with other humans and with their environment (Lefebvre). Traditionally the urban scheme is envisioned to control and order ‘nature’ and social interaction, and to sustain the power of a dominant group (Foucault). Yet due to the complexity of the post-capitalist city, this urban realm is not a smooth surface. Sometimes temporary cracks form, where space is opened up for creating alternative orderings (Hetherington 40). Because of their ambivalence, these spaces do not clearly belong to anyone, and can easily be claimed. It is this type of place that queers and other minority groups have often repurposed and appropriated to their needs. With our photographs we hope to visualize these fragments in the urban environment, where the imposed order suddenly stops, and where organic (over-) growth takes over. Here nature reclaims temporarily unused urban space and thus disrupts the idea of a human-constructed and human-controlled landscape and the idea of ‘city’ in a dualistic relation with ‘nature.’ In this sense, our photographs represent a queer version of urban typologies like ‘park’ or ‘garden’
From the River to the Sea: Israel, Palestine, and Queer/Feminist Ecologies
Full text linkThis paper seeks to provide an ecofeminist and queer critique of Israeli aggression towards and occupation of Palestine in three parts. Firstly, providing a critical analysis of tropes surrounding the creation of the Israel including early policies relating to land and afforestation. Secondly, by revealing how these tropes about the founding of Israel expose racist understandings about the supposed nature of Palestinians and Arabs (as backwards, queered and so on) and Thirdly, how these projections in the two previous sections about Israeli ingenuity and the supposed natural inferiority of Palestinians and Arabs informs current ecological mal/development in Israel and Palestine.