Posthuman ecological intimacy, waste, and the trans body in Nånting måste gå sönder (2014)

Straube, Wibke

doi:10.4324/9780429023811-4

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“…The dog walker is the only racialised character in the film, and her comforting words could easily be read as playing into racist tropes. Yet her Blackness, together with Ellie's transness, is the embodiment of a structural dehumanisation of the dissident, non-normative body and its historical discursive links to pathology and abnormality (see Straube 2020;2019). Thus, the meeting between the dog walker and Ellie, the dog and the hill, gives even further emphasis to the reading of the film as a re-appropriation of "impurity" across a range of different bodies and the disenfranchising meaning given to their bodily materialities.…”

Section: Nånting Måste Gå Sönder: Embracing Pollutionmentioning

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Ecological Aesthetics of Intimate Otherness in Swedish Trans Cinema

Straube¹

2021

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This article is an exploration of trans and non-binary representation in independent Swedish film productions. Two award-winning films, Pojktanten (She Male Snails, 2012) and Nånting måste gå sönder (Something Must Break, 2014), created by director Ester Martin Bergsmark (in collaboration with author Eli Levén), will be in focus and discussed through their ecological aesthetics that build on what I call intimate otherness. The two films represent not only a significant debut moment for Swedish trans cinema, but also offer a radical engagement with nature and the unnatural. While Bergsmark’s films incite a vivid aestheticisation of environmental pollution, ranging from items of garbage in the forest to untidyrooms, unwashed clothes, and dirty bathing water, the films’ ecological aesthetics, as I argue, imagine an enchanted space in which the trans body emerges as livable. Historically reduced to an “unnatural” and “contaminated” embodiment, trans bodies in the films form an intimate otherness with non-human objects and landscapes at the urban peripheries, at the margins of normativity and productivity. The films’ ecological aesthetics shift gender non-conformity from “unnatural” into a possibility. These aesthetics, I suggest, unfold into a gender-dissident´ landscape of rebellious and poetic, intimate otherness.

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Ecological Aesthetics of Intimate Otherness in Swedish Trans Cinema

Straube¹

2021

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“…It dismantles categorical binaries and engages with a posthuman landscape. 3 A trans-ecological ethical disposition is based on embodied re-lationships to place, that are collectively attuned to histories of difference. 4 This ethics reimagines a more just post-Anthropic life undoing historically sedimented relationships of oppression.…”

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Improving Healthcare Resilience Through an Equity Focused Framework

Mazzi,

Coni,

Jiang

et al. 2022

Resilient Futures

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Resilience is an equity issue. It is directly linked to the resources one has to cope with environmental stressors. These resources occur at multiple scales and involve social, physical, and economic components. Resilience can be considered at the scale of the individual human, the building, or municipal infrastructure. Because resilience issues are also health issues, we are studying how it is approached within the healthcare industry in the United States. This industry is currently experiencing a paradigm shift from providing episodic care, focused on the treatment of disease, to a holistic focus on maintaining health. This article shares research on the factors that contribute to resilience and a framework we developed to measure effectiveness of applying these factors at each scale. This framework and the methodology for applying it helps architects and our clients make better decisions about design. We believe this multifactor approach centers equity in developing resilient approaches to energy, air quality, and water use. At the macro scale, climate change has wrought havoc on infrastructure. This impacts us all, but vulnerable populations bear the brunt of the health burden. Within the United States, adverse weather events linked to climate change such as flooding, heat waves, extreme cold and violent storms often occur in areas with poor air, water, and soil quality exacerbating challenges. Health facilities are also under new stressors. Weather events impact aging structures, challenging their ability to operate in an emergency. Structural integrity, access to power, and indoor air quality are among the life safety issues that may arise. As we build new hospitals, it is important to consider these impacts and potential future impacts on what we design. As we renovate existing structures, we need to consider how to build resilience within the existing systems so that future problems don’t occur. The impacts of the pandemic have magnified the need to consider individual resilience. Stress undermines a person’s short-term ability to function and make decisions. Chronic stress has been shown to create inflammation in the body. This inflammation contributes to physical and mental disease. Personal resilience is tied to the ability to return to homeostasis after experiencing an adverse event. Our research in salutogenic (health generating) design shows environmental resources can help activate the parasympathetic nervous system and turn off the stress response. Additionally, there are beneficial effects even with temporary exposure to a salutogenic space. Our framework will demonstrate how each of the resilience factors operates at all three scales. We will show the research supporting each factor and how it impacts the individuals and communities. Through this metric, we aim to make resilience a more visible and quantifiable concept. Looking at social determinants to health in conjunction with the exposome (environmental factors) at all three scales, we can begin to think more comprehensively about resilience. We can create an equitable built world that contributes to everyone’s well-being.

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Unsettling Intimacies: On World-Making Practices with the Other in Minoosh Zomorodinia’s Installation Knots and Ripples

Mehrabi,

Straube

2024

NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

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Posthuman ecological intimacy, waste, and the trans body in Nånting måste gå sönder (2014)

Cited by 6 publications

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Ecological Aesthetics of Intimate Otherness in Swedish Trans Cinema

Ecological Aesthetics of Intimate Otherness in Swedish Trans Cinema

Improving Healthcare Resilience Through an Equity Focused Framework

Unsettling Intimacies: On World-Making Practices with the Other in Minoosh Zomorodinia’s Installation Knots and Ripples

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