Fear of a Queer Plant?

Sandilands, Catriona

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“…There is a wealth of feminist, queer and decolonial scholarship emerging which offers politically engaged correctives to earlier plant thought, rehabilitating the plant through situated intersectional analyses (e.g. Myers, 2017a; Gibson and Brits, 2018; Sandilands, 2017; Szczygielska and Cielemęcka, 2019). Importantly, the history of plant-human interaction is a heavily gendered one; whilst certain authors have attended to these relations (see in particular Shteir, 1996; Schiebinger, 2004), the close collaborations between women and plants have long been underacknowledged.…”

Section: Critical Plant Studies: a Cross-cultural Approachmentioning

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Listening to plants: Conversations between critical plant studies and vegetal geography

Lawrence

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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Attention to plant life is currently flourishing across the social sciences and humanities. This paper introduces recent work in the informal sub-discipline of ‘vegetal geography’, placing it into conversation with the transdisciplinary field of ‘critical plant studies’ [CPS], a broad framework for re-evaluating plants and human-plant interactions informed by principles of agency, ethics, cognition and language. I explore three key themes of interest to multispecies scholars looking to attend more closely to vegetal life, namely: (1) plant otherness; (2) plant ethics; (3) plant-human attunements, in the hope of encouraging greater cross-pollination between more-than-human geography and critical plant studies.

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Section: Critical Plant Studies: a Cross-cultural Approachmentioning

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Listening to plants: Conversations between critical plant studies and vegetal geography

Lawrence

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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“…In the posthumanist rush to embrace notions of plant intelligence and communication-which, in general terms, tend to demonstrate that plants are "like" people in fundamental waysthere has been a tendency to overlook the biopolitical context in which these new knowledges arise: the relations of appropriation, expropriation, dispossession, and exploitation in which both plants, and Indigenous relationships to plants, are enmeshed. This has been the focus of a lot of my recent writing (Sandilands, 2016(Sandilands, , 2017(Sandilands, , 2018: What does it mean that we are talking about plant intelligence in a way that makes more and more plant capacities (e.g., communication by way of volatile organic compounds) open to commodification and exploitation, rather than in a way that takes genuine inspiration from thinkers like Kimmerer who insist on the ethical primacy of relationship and reciprocity in our dealings with vegetal "kin"?…”

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Thinking the Feminist Vegetal Turn in the Shadow of Douglas-Firs: An Interview with Catriona Sandilands

Cielemęcka¹,

Szczygielska

Sandilands³

2019

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This is an interview with Catriona Sandilands, an environmental literary critic and ecocultural scholar whose work brings together questions of ecology, gender and sexuality, and multispecies biopolitics. She coined the term queer ecologies to describe and intervene in the manifold intersections running between sexuality, nature, and power in contemporary ecological conversations. The concept has made a powerful contribution to feminist and queer environmental scholarship, and to the larger environmental humanities. An intuitive gardener as well as plant scholar, she writes about plants in a unique way that pairs wonder about botanical materiality and evolutionary history with a concern about the biopolitical mechanisms that govern both vegetal and other, nonhuman and human, forms of life. Cate is a Professor of Environmental Studies at York University in Ontario, Canada. She is the author of The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy (1999) as well as over 80 essays, reviews, journal articles, and chapters in edited collections. She edited, with Bruce Erickson, the much-celebrated scholarly volume Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire (2010); her edited collection of creative writing Rising Tides: Reflections for Climate Changing Times will be published in September, 2019. Marianna Szczygielska and Olga Cielemęcka caught up with Cate on Galiano Island, BC, to discuss the recent vegetal turn in the humanities, feminist commitments to critical plant studies, and the lessons to be learned from paying close attention to the plants around us.

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“…In some respects, the pastoral tendency in queer art to escape majoritarian intolerance by finding solace and retreat in the rural wilderness has been replaced with an urban ideal where ruins and spontaneous vegetation physically shield queer spaces from the surrounding city. Recent work in queer ecology has drawn attention to ‘the collaborative role of weeds in forming human sexuality’ (Crowdy, 2017, p. 429) either as ‘inadvertent allies to the marginalized’ (Nowak & Roynesdal, 2021, p. 3), or as ‘complex queer agents that demand attention to specific entanglements of sex, gender, race, and species’ (Sandilands, 2017, p. 421). Earlier queer ecological studies of urban sites have focused on cruising (Gandy, 2012; Patrick, 2014), yet Berlin's club islands also draw attention to a broader set of immersions, including dancing under the trees and experiencing urban nature under the influence of empathy‐enhancing drugs.…”

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Berlin's queer archipelago: Landscape, sexuality, and nightlife

Anderson

2022

Trans Inst British Geog

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The metaphor of the archipelago has informed ideas about Berlin's post‐war and post‐wall fractured urban landscape as well as recent work on sexual minorities in the city. In the context of Berlin's landscape, the image refers to green islands of spontaneous vegetation on sites left behind by bomb damage and border infrastructure, while in scholarship on sexuality, it suggests a more dispersed distribution of minority nightlife than in the traditional focus on the gayborhood. The two meanings come together in many of Berlin's electronic dance music clubs, which are located in overgrown voids—or Brachen in German—and form a queer archipelago outside the heteronormative grid. Drawing on insights from queer and ruderal ecology, as well as some of the memory literature from the early German reunification era, this paper explores these club islands in relation to the landscape term terrain vague. By focusing on two sites in the former East Berlin borough of Friedrichshain—Wriezener Park, next to the city's most famous club Berghain, and the Brache‐turned‐dance club ://about blank—Berlin's current status as a global centre for queer club culture is understood through the lens of its unusual urban landscape and spectral ecologies.

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Fear of a Queer Plant?

Cited by 41 publications

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Listening to plants: Conversations between critical plant studies and vegetal geography

Listening to plants: Conversations between critical plant studies and vegetal geography

Thinking the Feminist Vegetal Turn in the Shadow of Douglas-Firs: An Interview with Catriona Sandilands

Berlin's queer archipelago: Landscape, sexuality, and nightlife

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