Ecologies of Gender

<p><em>Ecologies of Gender: Contemporary Nature Relations and the Nonhuman Turn</em> 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.</p><p>The interdisciplinary contributions in this volume each provides theoretical reflections based on an analysis of specific naturecultural processes. They reveal how "ecologies of gender" are constructed through aesthetic, epistemological, political, technological and economic practices that shape multispecies and material interrelations as well as spatial and temporal orderings. The volume includes contributions from cultural anthropology, cultural studies, film studies, literary studies, media studies, philosophy and theatre studies. The essays are organized around four key dimensions of an "ecological" understanding of gender: "creatures", "materials", "spaces" and "temporalities". </p><p>The overall aim of the volume <em>Ecologies of Gender: Contemporary Nature Relations and the Nonhuman Turn</em> is to explore the potentialities and limitations of the nonhuman turn for a critical analysis and theory of ecologies of gender, and thereby make an original contribution to both the environmental humanities and gender studies. </p><p>This book will be of great interest to scholars and students from the interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities and environmental studies more broadly, as well as from gender studies and cultural theory. </p> <p>Introduction: Ecologies of Gender and the Nonhuman Turn</p><p><b>Susanne Lettow and Sabine Nessel</b></p><p>Part 1 Creatures: The Biopolitics of Making Kin</p><p>1. Mulberry Intimacies and the Sweetness of Kinship</p><p><strong>Catriona Sandilands</strong></p><p>2. The Vegetal Subjects of Feminist Speculative Fiction</p><p><strong>Natania Meeker</strong></p><p>3. The Arboreal Feminine: An Analysis of Affect and Activism in Two Ecofeminist Re-Enchantment Narratives from India</p><p><strong>Swarnalatha Rangarajan</strong></p><p>Part 2: Materials: Agency in/of Transcorporeal Assemblages</p><p>4. Plastic Ambivalence</p><p><strong>Nicole Seymour</strong></p><p>5. Political Drugs: Materiality in <em>Testo Junkie</em></p><p><strong>Kathrin Peters</strong></p><p>6. Unthinkable Ecologies in Theatres of the Anthropocene</p><p><strong>Ramona Mosse</strong> </p><p>Part 3: Spaces: Landscapes and Architectures of Power and Imagination</p><p>7. Gender, Nature, Nonhuman Animal: Bird People (2014) and the Proliferation of Difference in Cinema</p><p><strong>Sabine Nessel</strong></p><p>8. Wildlife Among Us. Post-Natural Worlds and Interspecies Encounters in Nicolette Krebitz’s <em>Wild</em></p><p><strong>Andrea Seier</strong></p><p>9. Creating Emotion with Space in Nanouk Leopold’s <em>Brownian Movement</em></p><p><strong>Angelica Fenner</strong></p><p>10. An Ecohumanist Perspective: Theorizing Ecofeminism through a Spatial Analysis of Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide</p><p><strong>Sangita Patil and N S Gundur</strong></p><p>Part 4: Temporalities: Histories, Presents and Futures to Change</p><p>11. The Figure of the Human in the "White (M)anthropocene". Philosophical Narratives on Sex, Race and Organic Kinship from 1800 to the Nonhuman Turn</p><p><strong>Susanne Lettow</strong></p><p>12. Speculative Ecologies: Salmon Farming and Marine Microplastics as Slow Disasters</p><p><strong>Sven Bergmann</strong></p><p>13. Futures of Plant-Human Mutualism. Science, Technology and Speculative Fiction</p><p><strong>Antónia Szabari</strong></p>