Title:
Deviant hollers : queering Appalachian ecologies for a sustainable future
Summary:
"Deviant Hollers: Queering Appalachian Ecologies for a Sustainable Future uses the lens of queer ecologies to explore environmental destruction in Appalachia while mapping out alternative futures that follow from critical queer perspectives on the United States' exploitation of the land. With essays by Lis Regula, Jessica Cory, Chet Pancake, Tijah Bumgarner, MJ Eckhouse, and other essential thinkers, this collection brings to light both emergent and long-standing marginalized perspectives that give renewed energy to the struggle for a sustainable future. A new and valuable contribution to the field of Appalachian studies, rural queer studies, Indigenous studies, and ethnographic studies of the United States, Deviant Hollers presents a much-needed objection to the status quo of academic work, as well as to the American exceptionalism and white supremacy pervading US politics and the broader geopolitical climate. By focusing on queer critiques and acknowledging the status of Appalachia as a settler colony, Deviant Hollers offers new possibilities for a reimagined way of life."-- Publisher
Contents:
Foreword / Stephanie Foote -- Introduction / Rebecca Scott and Zane McNeill -- Re-presenting the narrative : pursuing stories amid addiction / Tijah Bumgarner -- Intoxicated subjects : queer bodies and ecologies in "Trumpalachia" / Rebecca-Eli M. Long and Zane McNeill -- Queers embracing place in Appalachia : the importance of masculinities for queer acceptance / Baker A. Rogers -- Unsilencing indigeneity : Appalachian studies, Appalachian ecologies, and the continuation of settler colonialism / Jessica Cory -- It's Grandpa's land : settler property, heteropatriarchy, and environmental disasters / Kandice Grossman, Aaron Padgett, and Rebecca Scott -- Edible Kent : collaboration, decentralization, and sustainable agriculture in urban food systems / Lis Regula and MJ Eckhouse -- Arboreal blockaders : "queer/trans moments of critical Appalachian eco-action" / Chet Pancake -- Masculinities in the decline of coal : queer futures in the Appalachian coalfields / Gabe Schwartzman -- "I fixed up the trees to give them some new life" : queer desire, affect, and ecology in the work of LGBTQIA+ Appalachian artists / Maxwell Cloe.
Physical Description:
xi, 231 pages ; 22 cm.
Geographic Term:
Publisher:
The University Press of Kentucky,
Publication Date:
2024
ISBN:
9780813199306
9780813199337
Publication Information:
Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2024]
Call Number:
304.2 MCNEILL