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Emerging: Queer Voices in the Climate Crisis
In a blog post, Karolina Heck, a PhD student at the Norbert Elias Center, discusses what it means to understand the climate crisis from the perspective of lived and embodied queer experience.
In the post, published on the Gender Blog, Karolina Heck discusses the ideas and methods behind her research. The article states: “In this context, I understand ‘queer’ not primarily as a category of identity, but as a spatial, relational orientation that stands in contradiction to the norm. Queer identities are not stable or fixed; they emerge performatively through repeated practices, gestures and relationships.”
The article provides an insight into queer-phenomenological explanatory models for an alternative relationship with nature and the climate crisis beyond technocratic perspectives on climate change, and discusses exploratory research with queer individuals that creates space for embodied experience with nature and the climate crisis.