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Ecologies of Gender: Contemporary Nature Relations and the Nonhuman Turn book cover

1st Edition

Ecologies of Gender Contemporary Nature Relations and the Nonhuman Turn

Edited By Susanne Lettow, Sabine Nessel Copyright 2022
264 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Introduction: Ecologies of Gender and the Nonhuman Turn

Susanne Lettow and Sabine Nessel

Part 1: Creatures

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

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

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

11. The Figure of the Human: Philosophical Narratives on Sex, Race and Organic Kinship in the "White (M)anthropocene"

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

Biography

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.

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