What is queer ecology? For Cleo Wölfle Hazard it seems to mean, among other things, being queer and an ecologist. In Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice Wölfle Hazard offers a feminist science and technology studies (STS) perspective on the capacious theoretical framework first proposed by Catriona Sandilands in 2000. Since its inception, queer ecology has been taken up and bolstered by anthropologists, artists, and literature scholars but features surprisingly scant “hard” science perspectives. Wölfle Hazard is here to rectify this issue. He extends the term to become a “queer trans feminist ecology” that “is an unfolding praxis, mood, and orientation to solidarity and multiplicity that holds space for different kinds of thought in the field and with other‐than‐human beings” (14). Wölfle Hazard brings the promise of this queer trans feminist ecology with him on river restoration and critical physical geography projects in the Pacific Northwest. Underflows is an...
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November 2024
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November 01 2024
Cruising Ecotopia: Whither Queer Trans Ecology?
Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice
. Cleo Wölfle Hazard. Seattle
: University of Washington Press
, 2022
. 312
pp.
Amelia Carter
Amelia Carter (she/they) is a History and Sociology of Science PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania and holds an MS from the Environmental Humanities Program at the University of Utah. Their research pokes at the holes between environmental history and the history of technology, with a focus on mapping, photography, and the queer ecology of barrier islands.
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TSQ (2024) 11 (4): 694–697.
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Amelia Carter; Cruising Ecotopia: Whither Queer Trans Ecology?. TSQ 1 November 2024; 11 (4): 694–697. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-11421222
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