Environmental and feminist posthumanities

Introduction to ecofeminism

• Haraway’s manifesto for cyborgs was a resounding confrontation with eco-feminism, such a good starting point. After the more nuanced, less essentialized, approaches of Stacy Alaimo and Cecilia Åsberg – feminist environmental humanities became forms of queer, neomaterialist posthumanitarian practices based on environmental history and ecocriticism.
• Lena Gunnarsson (former gender researcher/future researcher/sustainability researcher at KTH – now at WHITE arkitektbyrå) has written about eco-feminism – available on KTH:s website, in the gender kit (online training tool)
  • IN SWEDISH:https://www.kth.se/om/equality/necessaren/filmer-och-texter/miljo/miljo-klimat-och-jamstalldhet-text-1.1193749.
  • There is also an online text about gender and science based on feminist history of science – and sustainability.
• Stacy Alaimo – since her thesis has worked with queer criticism of ecofeminism based on Haraway and feminist technoscience studies such as cultural studies and eco-critique – So read Alaimo’s classic texts and books!
• Introduction to posthuman/new materialist feminist technoscience studies – C Åsberg, N Lykke (2010) European Journal of Women’s Studies 17 (4), 299-305.
  • Åsberg, C. & Braidotti R. (2008). A Feminist Companion to Post‐humanities, NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 16:4, 264-269, DOI: 10.1080/08038740802441071
• A classic in a European context, when feminist EH is to be introduced: On environmental neomaterialism as a starting point for more than gender-focused gender studies
  • Cecilia Åsberg, Redi Koobak & Ericka Johnson (2011) Beyond the Humanist Imagination, NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 19:4, 218-230, DOI: 10.1080/08038740.2011.625042  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08038740.2011.625042
• Cecilia Åsberg in the environmental journal Resilience: Environmental Humanities (University of Nebraska) from 2013, Resilience is Cyborg – about Haraway as a starting point for new environmental humanities (eco- and feminist technohumanities)

Environmental/feminist posthumanities

• Four Problems, Four Directions for Environmental Humanities: Toward Critical Posthumanities for the Anthropocene Author(s): Astrida Neimanis, Cecilia Åsberg and Johan Hedrén Source: Ethics and the Environment, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Spring 2015), pp. 67-97 Published by: Indiana University Press Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/ethicsenviro.20.1.67
• Feministisk eco- o posthumaniora i en onaturlig värld: Cecilia Åsberg; Feminist Posthumanities in the Anthropocene: Forays Into The Postnatural. Journal of Posthuman Studies 1 June 2017; 1 (2): 185–204. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/jpoststud.1.2.0185

Blue humanities

• Stacey Alaimo’s special issue in Configurations om Science Studies och Blue Humanities till bla)  – Se A Sea Change in the Environmental Humanities (2020) Åsberg, Cecilia. 2020. “A Sea Change in the Environmental Humanities.” Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities 1, no. 1 (June): 108−22.https://doi.org/10.46863/ecocene.41.

Animal-human relations

• The book: Animal places: lively cartographies of human-animal relations, Bull, T Holmberg, C Åsberg Routledge – especially the chapter by Tara Mehrabi (Karlstads universitet) and Cecilia Åsberg about lab-animals

Toxic pollution, Swedish waste management

• Neimanis, A., Neimanis, A., & Åsberg, C. (2017). Fathoming chemical weapons in the Gotland Deep. Cultural Geographies, 24(4), 631–638. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474017719069
• Fredengren, C. & Åsberg, C. (2020). Checking in with Deep Time: Intragenerational Care in Registers of Feminist Posthumanities, the Case of Gärstadsverken  Available here: Deterritorializing the Future https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/41204/Harrison-andSterling_2020_Deterritorializing-The-Future.pdf?sequence=1

Toxic Embodiment and Feminist Environmental Humanities 

• Olga Cielemęcka; Cecilia Åsberg, Introduction: Toxic Embodiment and Feminist Environmental Humanities, Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 101–107. https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-7349433
• Straube, W. (2019) Toxic Bodies: Ticks, Trans Bodies, and the Ethics of Response-Ability in Art and Activist Writing.
• Special issue: https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/issue/11/1

Summary and relevance of feminist posthumanities

• Cecilia Åsberg (2021) Ecologies and Technologies of Feminist Posthumanities, Women’s Studies, 50:8, 857-862, DOI: 10.1080/00497878.2021.1981328 To link to this article:  https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2021.1981328