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Corpi d’acqua. La svolta idrofemminista di Astrida Neimanis
Get PDF[Italiano]: Il volume presentato è incentrato sull’“idrofemminismo”, paradigma filosofico teorizzato dalla scrittrice canadese Astrida Neimanis (2017), lecturer presso il Dipartimento di Studi Culturali e di Genere dell’Università di Sydney: fondandosi su diversiquadri teorici, quali l’écriture feminine di Hélène Cixous e Luce Irigaray, la fenomenologia di Merleau-Ponty e la rizomatica diDeleuze e Guattari, tale paradigma presenta una nozione ecologicamente impegnata dell’‘incorporazione’, che l’autrice analizza da una prospettiva ‘acquea’, mostrando come una nuova concezione dei corpi possa cambiare il nostro atteggiamento verso leacque della Terra. Oltre ad esplorandone in dettaglio le principali caratteristiche, spiegandone la rilevanza negli odierni dibattiti sul nuovo materialismo, il post-umanesimo e le environmental humanities, Antonella De Vita ne ‘traduce’ l’interesse per i lettori italiani, non solo presentando la traduzione dell’introduzione di Bodies of Water. Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology (2017), ma anche illustrando come la figurazione dei ‘corpi d’acqua’ possa trasporsi nel linguaggio dell’arte visuale e della performancefemminili, dedicando estrema attenzione ad artiste di fama sia mediterranea che internazionale.
/[English]: This volume deals with “hydrofeminism”, formulated by the Canadian writer Astrida Neimanis (2017), lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney: relying on several theoretical backgrounds, such as Hélène Cixous’ and Luce Irigaray’s écriture feminine, Merleau- Ponty’s phenomenology and Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizomatics, this new philosophical paradigm presents an ecologically-engaged notion of ‘embodiment’, which Neimanis analyses from a ‘watery’ perspective, showing how a new understanding of bodies can change our attitude towards the waters of our Earth.Antonella De Vita ‘translates’ this interest for the Italian readership: after exploring in detail the main features of hydrofeminismand explaining their relevance in the context of current debates on new materialism, post-humanism and environmentalhumanities, the author presents her translation of the introduction of Bodies of Water. Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology (2017), and ‘translates’ Neimanis’ figuration of ‘bodies of water’ into the language of women’s visual art and performance, devotingkeen attention both to international and to Mediterranean artists
Ep. #103 - Astrida Neimanis
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Coming to you this week from Kreuzberg, Cymene and Dominic imagine Truman Show Berlin. Then (9:04) we connect to Australia at long last with the help of Astrida Neimanis from the University of Sydney. We talk about her recent book, Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology (Bloomsbury, 2017), and her efforts to rethink embodiment and relationality via water. Astrida explains to us the difficult capaciousness of “water” as a concept and the need for more particular phenomenological engagements, weighs in on “blue humanities” and talks with us about what seems distinctive and exciting about feminist environmental humanities today. We talk misogyny and the erasure of feminist voices, the politics of citation, and toxic masculinities and that brings us to Astrida’s new body of work on water as a queer archive of feeling. She explains why she thinks we need to talk more about our crazy attachment to a fossil-fueled life and what we can learn about desire from what is dumped in the deep watery places of the world. We talk about the multiplicity of anthropocene temporalities, tidalectics, and building antichrononormative communities. We muse on fathoming and the messy contingencies of water and knowledge and why we need more relating and better imaginaries. We close on which archives Astrida wants to work on next, in particular chemical weapons in the seas around Australia and “rehabilitated” wetlands near Hamilton Ontario, and how water always forgets but also always remembers
An infrastructural politics for climate change adaptation, via weather: Interview by Enrico Campo with Jennifer Mae Hamilton and Astrida Neimanis
No full textJennifer Hamilton (Senior Lecturer in English Literary Studies), and Astrida Neimanis (Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental Humanities) are environmental feminist scholars who explore the relationship between weather, climate change, and infrastructure. They co-authored How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change (Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming 2026), which includes a chapter on infrastructure. Together with artist and writer Tessa Zettel, are part of the Weathering Collective (https://weatheringstation.net/), a project that experiments with collaborative practices between theoretical and critical research and artistic practice. With Zettel, they co-authored ‘Feminist Infrastructure for Better Weathering’ for Australian Feminist Studies. This interview explores the concept of ‘weathering’ and how and why they argue for an urgent need to think critically about adaptation in relation to infrastructure in order to address the challenge of climate change
Thoughts on Water
Get PDFA review of Cecilia Ming Si Chen, Janine MacLeod and Astrida Neimanis (eds), Thinking with Water (McGill-Queens University Press, 2013)
Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth edited by Carol J. Adams and Lori Gruen
Get PDFAstrida Neimanis reviews Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth, edited by Carol J. Adams and Lori Gruen
All The World's A Drain
No full textIf it is the job of a phenomenologist to describe conscious experience, Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology does so in a way that collapses the distinction between one’s psychic life and one’s material situation. Its author, Astrida Neimanis, challenges us to reimagine how individual human bodies — constituted of approximately 70 per cent water — are thoroughly implicated in the planetary hydrocommons
Water and Ocean
Get PDFA review of Elspeth Probyn. 2016, 'Eating the Ocean'. Durham: Duke University Press and Astrida Neimanis. 2017, 'Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology'. London: Bloomsbury.</jats:p
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