1st Edition
The Unlively Protesting Fossil Fuel Pollution with David Buckel
By Sofia Varino
Copyright 2027
120 Pages
by
Routledge India
This book examines air pollution and extinction by looking into how they might contribute, conceptually and politically, to a queer ecopolitics of death. It focuses on the figure of David Buckel, an American LGBT rights lawyer and environmentalist, who self-immolated to protest fossil fuel pollution in 2018. The author considers Buckel’s death as an act of political protest, whereby a (singular)... Read more
Introduction: The Air We Breathe 1. What We Are Doing to Ourselves 2. One in Five: Tracing Fossil Fuel Air Pollution 3. Political Atmospheres: Breathing with David Buckel 4. Out of Breath: Unlively Times and the Politics of Impermanence Coda: The Afterlives of David Buckel
Biography
Sofia Varino, PhD, is co-author of Aquatopia: Climate Interventions (2023) and co-editor of a special issue of Somatechnics (2019). Varino's research interests span political ecology, feminist science studies, and American studies. They teach at Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany.
