Queering Ecocultural Studies

Ecomedia futures

“…For some the important theme has been environmental communications, both as a problem -the role of media and public relations in spinning environmental catastrophes for example -and as a strategy for the development of social movement communications and the popular communication of science (Chapman et al 1997;Cox 2013 already envisioned environmental discourse as a component of global media and inequality). For others, including much work on film studies, environmentalism appears as a problem of representation (Brereton 2005;Ingram 2004) or the stakes of aesthetic and formal practice (MacDonald 2001), increasingly framed by feminist, queer and post-colonial perspectives (Gustafsson and Kääpä 2013;Lu and Mi 2009;Mortimer-Sandilands 2008;Roos and Hunt 2010). Increasingly, there has been concern with the environmental footprint of media technologies (Maxwell and Miller 2012;Parikka 2011), and it is this direction that inspires the pages that follow, aiding a return over the questions of communications and aesthetics, while pointing forward to emerging themes in the field.…”

Arde Galicia: o ‘agrocuir’ en contra da metronormatividade do ‘queer’

“…Por moi inconexas que as cuestións da diversidade sexual e os incendios poden parecer a primeira vista, críticos das teorías eco-queer como Greta Gaard (1997), Catriona Mortimer--Sandilands (2008 ou Alex Johnson (2016) mostran que hai unha estreita vinculación entre a homofobia, a misoxinia e a degradación da natureza e do entorno rural. Vemos a conciencia destas interconexións nos últimos anos en Galicia, tanto no activismo como na produción cultural, onde o rural ten máis visibilidade como un espazo dende onde artellar unha política e cultura cuir que entenden a sostibilidade, a biodiversidade e a diversidade sexo-afectiva como cuestións LGTB.…”