(En)Queering 'Prakriti
Decolonial Ecofeminism and Lesbian Subjectivity in Out! Stories from the New Queer India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2995191 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chhandita Das (0000-0002-8043-7143, Institute of Management Technology), Priyanka Tripathi (0000-0002-9522-3391, Indian Institute of Technology Patna) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 31 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Encounters A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2468-4414 • E-ISSN: 2468-4414 |
| Publisher | Lectito Publications (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.20897/femenc/16789 |
| OpenAlex | W4413873027 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 32 |
The present article aims to explore the decolonial possibilities of queer ecofeminism entailing lesbian subjectivity and solidarity in Indian geography through the textual analysis of select post-colonial stories from Out! Stories from the New Queer India (2012) by Minal Hajratwala. Introducing lived experiences of queer people in the lap of nature, this book interpolates lesbian subjectivity and the politics of recognition broadly. Critiquing established narratives in queer feminist perspectives (Vanita, 2001; Roy, 2022) and ecofeminism (Shiva, 2010), this article critiques Prakriti (i.e., Nature) as a dissident source of Shakti (i.e., Power) for queer lives. In a country like India, the recent decline of the demand for legalising same-sex marriage by the Indian Supreme Court amidst significant political and religious controversy (Rajgopal, 2023) underscores the urgency of this discourse. In such a heated context, this article articulates the lived experiences of lesbian relationships in Indian ecology and examines queer ecofeminism as an instrumental approach to advancing lesbian subjectivity, and solidarity and addressing sexism
Art · Ecofeminism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Lesbian · Queer · Sociology · Subjectivity · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · South Asian Cinema and Culture
Queering Desire
Queer Ecologies
The Languages of Sexuality
Critically Queer
Same-Sex Love in India
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence (1980)
The Nation and Its Fragments
Global weds local
Relighting the Fire
There is no such thing as a straight woman”
Lesbian longings and the question of a queer repertoire in The “Other” Love Story
Lesbian processing at the end of the world
Toward a Queer Ecofeminism
Rescaling Transnational “Queerdom”
Strange Natures
Queer Activism in India
What Has Never Been
Playing the Field
Decriminalising homosexuality in India
On lesbian subjectivity and same-sex marriage
(En)Queering 'Prakriti
Accessing the interiority of others
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |