Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on Environment and Nature

by Douglas A. Vakoch (Editor)

Overview

There is a growing recognition of the importance of transgender perspectives about the environment. Unlike more established approaches in the environmental humanities and queer studies, transecology is a nascent inquiry whose significance and scope are only just being articulated. Drawing upon the fields of gender studies and ecological studies, contributors to this volume engage major concepts widely used in both fields as they explore the role of identity, exclusion, connection, intimacy, and emplacement to understand our relationship to nature and environment.

The theorists and ideas examined across multiple chapters include Stacy Alaimo’s notion of "trans-corporeality" as a "contact zone" between humans and the environment, Timothy Morton’s concept of "mesh" to explore the interconnectedness of all beings, Susan Stryker’s notion of trans identity as "ontologically inescapable," Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson’s history of the development of queer rural spaces, Judith Butler’s analysis of gender as "performative"—with those who are not "properly gendered" being seen as "abjects"—and Julia Serano’s contrasting rejection of gender as performance.

Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on Environment and Nature will be of great interest to scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates in transgender studies, gender studies, ecocriticism, and environmental humanities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367086510
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/14/2020
Series:	Routledge Studies in Gender and Environments
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Douglas A. Vakoch is President of METI, dedicated to Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence and sustaining civilization on multigenerational timescales. As Director of Green Psychotherapy, PC, he helps alleviate environmental distress through ecotherapy. Six of his earlier books explore ecofeminism and ecopsychology.

Table of Contents

_Foreword

Preface

Introduction. "Transecology: (Re)Claiming the Natural, Belonging, Intimacy, and Impurity"

Chapter 1. ‘The Bog is in Me’: Transecology and The Danish Girl

Chapter 2. Coming Out, Camping Out: Theorizing Gender and Nature through Transparent

Chapter 3. Posthuman Ecological Intimacy, Waste, and the Trans Body in Nånting måste gå sönder (2014)

Chapter 4. A Journey Through Eco-apocalypse and Gender Transformations: New Perspectives on Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve

Chapter 5. Chinese Literature, Ecofeminism, and Transgender Studies

Chapter 6. Gendercrossing at the Frontier: Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s Transgender Memoirs in the Alborz Mountains

Chapter 7. Transplacement: Nature and Place in Carter Sickels’s ‘Saving’ and ‘Bittersweet’

Chapter 8. Sexuate Ecologies and the Landmarking of Transgender Cultural Heritage

Chapter 9. Transgender: An Expanded View of the Ecological Self

Chapter 10. ‘Good Animals’: The Past, Present, and Futures of Trans Ecology

Afterword.