A Neimanis
Biographic Data
| ID | 54101 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Neimanis |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Neimanis |
| SIGNATURE | NEIMANIS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7666-8507 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 269 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Multibeing Drag Rift: Multispecies is a drag
Multispecies is a drag. Rather, we propose a multibeing drag rift manifesto as a riff, rift, and drift in the wrack zone
An infrastructural politics for climate change adaptation, via weather: Interview by Enrico Campo with Jennifer Mae Hamilton and Astrida Neimanis
Jennifer Hamilton (Senior Lecturer in English Literary Studies), and Astrida Neimanis (Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental Humanities) are environmental feminist scholars who explore the relationship between weather, climate change, and infrastructure. They co-authored How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change (Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming 2026), which includes a chapter on infrastructure. Together with artist …
Introduction: Domestication of War
This Special Section broadens and qualifies the terms through which the relationship between home and militarization has been understood. We do this by joining a vibrant and growing field of transdisciplinary scholars who address the militarization of everyday life by attending to domesticity and practices of domestication. We grapple with how the home naturalizes and becomes a catalyst for militarism: How do ordinary and domestic objects, techno…
Writing with Multiple Appendages: Scratchings of the Skittering Limbs of Stygofauna
Four pairs of images from the Postcards from the Underground (2022) print series are presented here as experiments in translating invertebrate underground worlds. Artist Perdita Phillips and cultural theorist Astrida Neimanis collaborated to create an interdisciplinary ‘walkshop’ event to the coal mining town of Lithgow, as part of Phillips’ Artsource both/and artist in residence at Artspace, Sydney in 2017. The many forms of stygofauna—small inv…
Stygofaunal Worlds
How can we cultivate an underground multispecies justice with beings whose lifeworlds are unknown and unknowable? This article examines this question through a consideration of stygofauna: miniscule deep-time creatures who make their home in the watery seams of the earth. Taking a cue from these critters—many of whom have evolved without eyes to make their way differently in the darkness of their watery subterranean homes—the article troubles the…
Breathing Climate Crises: Feminist Environmental Humanities and More-Than-Human Witnessing
In this paper, we consider climate change as a systemic respiratory crisis, and explore how breath can function as a mode of witnessing climate catastrophe. We build on feminist environmental humanities methodologies of embodied attunement to advance a more-than-human witnessing of climate change. We suggest that a feminist “conspiratorial” witnessing of breath(lessness) can afford an embodied, situated, empathetic and systemic mode of witnessing…
Toxic Erotics and Bad Ecosex at Windermere Basin
How do settler colonialism, control of women’s and differently gendered bodies, sex, industry, pollution—but also pleasure, love, care, desire, bodily autonomy, and survival—cleave together and apart in the inland wetland of Windermere Basin park? Starting with this question, this article explores my own attraction to this tiny place in postindustrial and settler colonial Hamilton, Ontario. I am curious about what it can teach us about the comple…
Reading Group as Method for Feminist Environmental Humanities
This article argues that reading groups are a collective field building and research method in Feminist Environmental Humanities, an interdisciplinary scholarly area at the intersections of feminist social justice and environmental concerns. We begin by historicising three Australian Feminist Environmental reading groups (COMPOSTING Feminisms, Eco Feminist Fridays, The Ediths) within a longer feminist tradition, then demonstrate how they respond …
Composting (in) the gender studies classroom: Growing feminisms for climate changing pedagogies
Drawing on our experience co-teaching an undergraduate unit called "Gender and Environment," we argue for an expansive feminist approach to teaching climate change that embodies the content of the unit in its classroom practice. This requires: (a) understanding the classroom not as separate from the phenomenon of climate change but as one of its sites, striated by the diverse bodies, histories, and other materialities that comprise it; (b) a rigo…
The most important memorial is the ongoing labour of justice
Hydrofeminism on the Coastline: An Interview with Astrida Neimanis
This is an interview conducted with Astrida Neimanis, Canada Research Chair of Feminist Environmental Humanities at University of British Columbia, Okanagan. It examines the "hydro-feminist" turn in critical theory and its potential value for thinking about coastline encounters. Neimanis also comments on critical-creative practices, critiques of the Anthropocene, and how the environmental and blue humanities will meet the demands of environmental…
Feminist Infrastructure for Better Weathering
Big infrastructure responses to climate change seek to protect the heteropatriarchal capitalist status quo. In contrast, this article develops a theory and method of practice-led research to facilitate better weathering. In so doing the article contends that a transformative feminist response to climate change needs alternative, collective, feminist infrastructures. The feminist specificity of the infrastructure proposed here emerges through its …
The chemists' war' in Sydney's seas: Water, time, and everyday militarisms
Approximately 28 kilometres off the coast of Sydney in Australia, at a depth of 275 metres, some 5000 tons of unused chemical weapons were dumped in the sea. These dumps join similar sea burial grounds all around Australia's coasts and are part of the hundreds of thousands of tons of chemical ordnance dumped in the planet's oceans after the Second World War. While this may seem like spectacular assault of old militarisms on fragile ocean ecologie…
Fathom
marine ecologist, a poet, a dancer, and a swimmer. (If the math does not add up, we remind you that we are always more than one.) Our insights emerged from a one
Justice Through a Multispecies Lens
Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water's Edge: Unsettled Islands by Sonja Boon, Lesley Butler and Daze Jefferies
Reviewed by: Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water’s Edge: Unsettled Islands by Sonja Boon, Lesley Butler and Daze Jefferies Astrida Neimanis (bio) Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water’s Edge: Unsettled Islands Sonja Boon, Lesley Butler, and Daze Jefferies Palgrave Pivot, 2018, viii + 146 pp. ISBN 9783319908281, $69.99 hardcover. Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water’s Edge: Unsettled Islands is made up of twenty…
The Weather Underwater: Blackness, White Feminism, and the Breathless Sea
This article offers a feminist environmental response to ‘the breathless sea’. Through a close reading of [Christina Sharpe’s. 2016. The Wake: On Blackness and Being. Durham: Duke University Press]; Adrienne Rich’s. 1973. “Diving into the Wreck.” In Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971–1972. New York: WW Norton; and Alexis Pauline Gumbs’. 2018. M Archive: After the End of the World. Durham: Duke University Press], it explores the increasingly vulner…
Five Desires, Five Demands
We propose that feminist studies are particularly well-situated to analyse the paradox of what ‘we humans’ want as we gaze into the eyes of planetary catastrophe. The contributions in the special issue evoke tensions between a capitalist imperative to consume, activist calls for resistance, and queer feminist figurations of sex and longing. Asking in turn what we as editors want from the project of feminist environmental humanities, we respond: (…
Posthuman Phenomenologies for Planetary Bodies of Water
Composting Feminisms and Environmental Humanities
Composting is a material labor whereby old scraps are transformed—through practices of care and attention—into nutrient-rich new soil. In this provocation, we develop “composting” as a material metaphor to tell a particular story about the environmental humanities. Building on Donna Haraway’s work, we insist “it matters what compostables make compost.” Our argument is twofold. First, we contend that certain feminist concepts and commitments are f…
Queer Times and Chemical Weapons, Suspended in the Gotland Deep
Following World War II, between 2000 and 10,000 metric tonnes of chemical weapons,mostly mustard gas, were dumped in the Gotland Basin of the Baltic Sea. This articleexplores these dumps as a dense transfer point for many different, sometimes incommensurabletemporalities. Guided by queer theories of nonlinear temporality, I describethese sulphur mustard times as both making and being made by the materialities of thechemicals, their containers, th…
Open Space Weathering
Pine Avenue is a small side street in the Sydney suburb of Earlwood. It terminates abruptly at the Cooks River, a tidal estuary that defines the contours of Sydney's inner south-west and reifies colonial exploration. While engineered from asphalt, Pine Avenue is also shaped by waters both slow and spectacular: every King Tide, the road floods with brackish water seeping up from underground; during storm surges, an excess of storm water from neigh…
Animate Intimacies
A review of Kath Weston. 'Animate Planet', Duke University Press, Durham, 2017. ISBN 9780822362326 RRP US$24.95 (pb
Queer times and Chemical Weapons, Suspended in the Gotland Deep
The video is also available at https://vimeo.com/220422987
Nature Represents Itself: Bibliophilia in a Changing Climate
Weathering: Climate Change and the “Thick Time” of Transcorporeality
In the dominant “climate change” imaginary, this phenomenon is distant and abstracted from our experiences of weather and the environment in the privileged West. Moreover, climate change discourse is saturated mostly in either neoliberal progress narratives of controlling the future or sustainability narratives of saving the past. Both largely obfuscate our implication therein. This paper proposes a different climate change imaginary. We draw on …
Justice Through a Multispecies Lens
Feminist Subjectivity, Watered
Responding to Rosi Braidotti's call for more 'conceptual creativity' in thinking through contemporary feminist subjectivity, this paper proposes the figuration of the body of water. It begins with a critical materialist enhancement of Adrienne Rich's concept of a politics of location, followed by a schematised description of the various 'hydro-logics' in which our bodies partake. The ways in which these logics already inform diverse modes of femi…
The Weather Underwater: Blackness, White Feminism, and the Breathless Sea
This article offers a feminist environmental response to ‘the breathless sea’. Through a close reading of [Christina Sharpe’s. 2016. The Wake: On Blackness and Being. Durham: Duke University Press]; Adrienne Rich’s. 1973. “Diving into the Wreck.” In Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971–1972. New York: WW Norton; and Alexis Pauline Gumbs’. 2018. M Archive: After the End of the World. Durham: Duke University Press], it explores the increasingly vulner…
Open Space Weathering
Pine Avenue is a small side street in the Sydney suburb of Earlwood. It terminates abruptly at the Cooks River, a tidal estuary that defines the contours of Sydney's inner south-west and reifies colonial exploration. While engineered from asphalt, Pine Avenue is also shaped by waters both slow and spectacular: every King Tide, the road floods with brackish water seeping up from underground; during storm surges, an excess of storm water from neigh…
Breathing Climate Crises: Feminist Environmental Humanities and More-Than-Human Witnessing
In this paper, we consider climate change as a systemic respiratory crisis, and explore how breath can function as a mode of witnessing climate catastrophe. We build on feminist environmental humanities methodologies of embodied attunement to advance a more-than-human witnessing of climate change. We suggest that a feminist “conspiratorial” witnessing of breath(lessness) can afford an embodied, situated, empathetic and systemic mode of witnessing…
Feminist Infrastructure for Better Weathering
Big infrastructure responses to climate change seek to protect the heteropatriarchal capitalist status quo. In contrast, this article develops a theory and method of practice-led research to facilitate better weathering. In so doing the article contends that a transformative feminist response to climate change needs alternative, collective, feminist infrastructures. The feminist specificity of the infrastructure proposed here emerges through its …
Five Desires, Five Demands
We propose that feminist studies are particularly well-situated to analyse the paradox of what ‘we humans’ want as we gaze into the eyes of planetary catastrophe. The contributions in the special issue evoke tensions between a capitalist imperative to consume, activist calls for resistance, and queer feminist figurations of sex and longing. Asking in turn what we as editors want from the project of feminist environmental humanities, we respond: (…
Alongside the right to water, a posthumanist feminist imaginary
Arguing that a discourse of human rights may not allow for a robust understanding of water, this paper aims to expand the imaginary of what water can be, of what water might need, and of our human implications and responsibilities within a more-than-human aqueous ecology. It does so by offering posthumanist feminist theory as a means of troubling the anthropocentrism, individualism and nature–culture binaries of which human rights may not be able…
Stygofaunal Worlds
How can we cultivate an underground multispecies justice with beings whose lifeworlds are unknown and unknowable? This article examines this question through a consideration of stygofauna: miniscule deep-time creatures who make their home in the watery seams of the earth. Taking a cue from these critters—many of whom have evolved without eyes to make their way differently in the darkness of their watery subterranean homes—the article troubles the…
Reading Group as Method for Feminist Environmental Humanities
This article argues that reading groups are a collective field building and research method in Feminist Environmental Humanities, an interdisciplinary scholarly area at the intersections of feminist social justice and environmental concerns. We begin by historicising three Australian Feminist Environmental reading groups (COMPOSTING Feminisms, Eco Feminist Fridays, The Ediths) within a longer feminist tradition, then demonstrate how they respond …
Queer Times and Chemical Weapons, Suspended in the Gotland Deep
Following World War II, between 2000 and 10,000 metric tonnes of chemical weapons,mostly mustard gas, were dumped in the Gotland Basin of the Baltic Sea. This articleexplores these dumps as a dense transfer point for many different, sometimes incommensurabletemporalities. Guided by queer theories of nonlinear temporality, I describethese sulphur mustard times as both making and being made by the materialities of thechemicals, their containers, th…
On Collaboration (for Barbara Godard)
Composting (in) the gender studies classroom: Growing feminisms for climate changing pedagogies
Drawing on our experience co-teaching an undergraduate unit called "Gender and Environment," we argue for an expansive feminist approach to teaching climate change that embodies the content of the unit in its classroom practice. This requires: (a) understanding the classroom not as separate from the phenomenon of climate change but as one of its sites, striated by the diverse bodies, histories, and other materialities that comprise it; (b) a rigo…
The chemists' war' in Sydney's seas: Water, time, and everyday militarisms
Approximately 28 kilometres off the coast of Sydney in Australia, at a depth of 275 metres, some 5000 tons of unused chemical weapons were dumped in the sea. These dumps join similar sea burial grounds all around Australia's coasts and are part of the hundreds of thousands of tons of chemical ordnance dumped in the planet's oceans after the Second World War. While this may seem like spectacular assault of old militarisms on fragile ocean ecologie…
Hydrofeminism on the Coastline: An Interview with Astrida Neimanis
This is an interview conducted with Astrida Neimanis, Canada Research Chair of Feminist Environmental Humanities at University of British Columbia, Okanagan. It examines the "hydro-feminist" turn in critical theory and its potential value for thinking about coastline encounters. Neimanis also comments on critical-creative practices, critiques of the Anthropocene, and how the environmental and blue humanities will meet the demands of environmental…
On Collaboration (for Barbara Godard)
Weathering: Climate Change and the “Thick Time” of Transcorporeality
In the dominant “climate change” imaginary, this phenomenon is distant and abstracted from our experiences of weather and the environment in the privileged West. Moreover, climate change discourse is saturated mostly in either neoliberal progress narratives of controlling the future or sustainability narratives of saving the past. Both largely obfuscate our implication therein. This paper proposes a different climate change imaginary. We draw on …
Feminist Subjectivity, Watered
Responding to Rosi Braidotti's call for more 'conceptual creativity' in thinking through contemporary feminist subjectivity, this paper proposes the figuration of the body of water. It begins with a critical materialist enhancement of Adrienne Rich's concept of a politics of location, followed by a schematised description of the various 'hydro-logics' in which our bodies partake. The ways in which these logics already inform diverse modes of femi…
Alongside the right to water, a posthumanist feminist imaginary
Arguing that a discourse of human rights may not allow for a robust understanding of water, this paper aims to expand the imaginary of what water can be, of what water might need, and of our human implications and responsibilities within a more-than-human aqueous ecology. It does so by offering posthumanist feminist theory as a means of troubling the anthropocentrism, individualism and nature–culture binaries of which human rights may not be able…
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
I think we all need to stay more with the trouble' - this, yet another Haraway-spotting moment during a keynote talk I heard two weeks ago. Donna Haraway's latest book Staying with the Trouble reh
Nature Represents Itself: Bibliophilia in a Changing Climate
Posthuman Phenomenologies for Planetary Bodies of Water
Composting Feminisms and Environmental Humanities
Composting is a material labor whereby old scraps are transformed—through practices of care and attention—into nutrient-rich new soil. In this provocation, we develop “composting” as a material metaphor to tell a particular story about the environmental humanities. Building on Donna Haraway’s work, we insist “it matters what compostables make compost.” Our argument is twofold. First, we contend that certain feminist concepts and commitments are f…
Queer Times and Chemical Weapons, Suspended in the Gotland Deep
Following World War II, between 2000 and 10,000 metric tonnes of chemical weapons,mostly mustard gas, were dumped in the Gotland Basin of the Baltic Sea. This articleexplores these dumps as a dense transfer point for many different, sometimes incommensurabletemporalities. Guided by queer theories of nonlinear temporality, I describethese sulphur mustard times as both making and being made by the materialities of thechemicals, their containers, th…
Open Space Weathering
Pine Avenue is a small side street in the Sydney suburb of Earlwood. It terminates abruptly at the Cooks River, a tidal estuary that defines the contours of Sydney's inner south-west and reifies colonial exploration. While engineered from asphalt, Pine Avenue is also shaped by waters both slow and spectacular: every King Tide, the road floods with brackish water seeping up from underground; during storm surges, an excess of storm water from neigh…
Animate Intimacies
A review of Kath Weston. 'Animate Planet', Duke University Press, Durham, 2017. ISBN 9780822362326 RRP US$24.95 (pb
Queer times and Chemical Weapons, Suspended in the Gotland Deep
The video is also available at https://vimeo.com/220422987
The Weather Underwater: Blackness, White Feminism, and the Breathless Sea
This article offers a feminist environmental response to ‘the breathless sea’. Through a close reading of [Christina Sharpe’s. 2016. The Wake: On Blackness and Being. Durham: Duke University Press]; Adrienne Rich’s. 1973. “Diving into the Wreck.” In Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971–1972. New York: WW Norton; and Alexis Pauline Gumbs’. 2018. M Archive: After the End of the World. Durham: Duke University Press], it explores the increasingly vulner…
Five Desires, Five Demands
We propose that feminist studies are particularly well-situated to analyse the paradox of what ‘we humans’ want as we gaze into the eyes of planetary catastrophe. The contributions in the special issue evoke tensions between a capitalist imperative to consume, activist calls for resistance, and queer feminist figurations of sex and longing. Asking in turn what we as editors want from the project of feminist environmental humanities, we respond: (…
Fathom
marine ecologist, a poet, a dancer, and a swimmer. (If the math does not add up, we remind you that we are always more than one.) Our insights emerged from a one
Justice Through a Multispecies Lens
Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water's Edge: Unsettled Islands by Sonja Boon, Lesley Butler and Daze Jefferies
Reviewed by: Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water’s Edge: Unsettled Islands by Sonja Boon, Lesley Butler and Daze Jefferies Astrida Neimanis (bio) Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water’s Edge: Unsettled Islands Sonja Boon, Lesley Butler, and Daze Jefferies Palgrave Pivot, 2018, viii + 146 pp. ISBN 9783319908281, $69.99 hardcover. Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water’s Edge: Unsettled Islands is made up of twenty…
Feminist Infrastructure for Better Weathering
Big infrastructure responses to climate change seek to protect the heteropatriarchal capitalist status quo. In contrast, this article develops a theory and method of practice-led research to facilitate better weathering. In so doing the article contends that a transformative feminist response to climate change needs alternative, collective, feminist infrastructures. The feminist specificity of the infrastructure proposed here emerges through its …
The chemists' war' in Sydney's seas: Water, time, and everyday militarisms
Approximately 28 kilometres off the coast of Sydney in Australia, at a depth of 275 metres, some 5000 tons of unused chemical weapons were dumped in the sea. These dumps join similar sea burial grounds all around Australia's coasts and are part of the hundreds of thousands of tons of chemical ordnance dumped in the planet's oceans after the Second World War. While this may seem like spectacular assault of old militarisms on fragile ocean ecologie…
Toxic Erotics and Bad Ecosex at Windermere Basin
How do settler colonialism, control of women’s and differently gendered bodies, sex, industry, pollution—but also pleasure, love, care, desire, bodily autonomy, and survival—cleave together and apart in the inland wetland of Windermere Basin park? Starting with this question, this article explores my own attraction to this tiny place in postindustrial and settler colonial Hamilton, Ontario. I am curious about what it can teach us about the comple…
Reading Group as Method for Feminist Environmental Humanities
This article argues that reading groups are a collective field building and research method in Feminist Environmental Humanities, an interdisciplinary scholarly area at the intersections of feminist social justice and environmental concerns. We begin by historicising three Australian Feminist Environmental reading groups (COMPOSTING Feminisms, Eco Feminist Fridays, The Ediths) within a longer feminist tradition, then demonstrate how they respond …
Composting (in) the gender studies classroom: Growing feminisms for climate changing pedagogies
Drawing on our experience co-teaching an undergraduate unit called "Gender and Environment," we argue for an expansive feminist approach to teaching climate change that embodies the content of the unit in its classroom practice. This requires: (a) understanding the classroom not as separate from the phenomenon of climate change but as one of its sites, striated by the diverse bodies, histories, and other materialities that comprise it; (b) a rigo…
The most important memorial is the ongoing labour of justice
Hydrofeminism on the Coastline: An Interview with Astrida Neimanis
This is an interview conducted with Astrida Neimanis, Canada Research Chair of Feminist Environmental Humanities at University of British Columbia, Okanagan. It examines the "hydro-feminist" turn in critical theory and its potential value for thinking about coastline encounters. Neimanis also comments on critical-creative practices, critiques of the Anthropocene, and how the environmental and blue humanities will meet the demands of environmental…
Introduction: Domestication of War
This Special Section broadens and qualifies the terms through which the relationship between home and militarization has been understood. We do this by joining a vibrant and growing field of transdisciplinary scholars who address the militarization of everyday life by attending to domesticity and practices of domestication. We grapple with how the home naturalizes and becomes a catalyst for militarism: How do ordinary and domestic objects, techno…
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (19 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (17 works) · Art (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (10 works) · History (10 works) · Environmental ethics (9 works) · Epistemology (9 works)