“Queer Times, Queer Ecologies” American Literature Special Issue
This special issue of American Literature will highlight new work in queer ecology that engages and extends concepts of queer time developed by theorists such as Lee Edelman, Jack Halberstam, Elizabeth Freeman, José Muñoz, Kathryn Bond Stockton, Carolyn Dinshaw, and others. Moving beyond investigations of sexual and gender diversity in nature—a central focus of queer ecological scholarship since its crystallization fifteen years ago—we seek to chart new directions in the field as queer ecology metabolizes the temporal turn in queer studies alongside of ...
Virtual Symposium – Transhistorical Plantings, Transnational Provision Grounds
Transhistorical Plantings, Transnational Provision Grounds Virtual Symposium Feb. 25th-26th 2027
The plantation’s agribiopolitical reorganization of environmental and (enviro-)racial relations has remained a focus of scholarship concerned with the afterlives of its logics. Yet, as Sylvia Wynter has argued, other narrative sites produced by and in dialogue with the plantation, such as the provision grounds, offer a means to think beyond the plantation’s hegemonic, monocultural narrative. In the Caribbean context of Wynter’s work, the provision grounds were found at the edge of the plantation hidden away from ...