The Climate Crisis and the “Unnatural” Body
Onto-epistemological Possibilities of and Threats to the Genders of Children and Adolescents
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8336383 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristin Fiorella (0000-0001-9976-733X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 30651251377755-30651251377755 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-21 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00030651251377755 |
| PMID | 41268676 |
| OpenAlex | W4416458670 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 29 |
Utilizing the work of philosopher Karen Barad, this paper explores the intraplays between gender, antigender discourse, and the climate crisis. In the midst of a world that is ecologically breaking down, gendered embodiment is a domain in which, for some, the dismay, despair, and reconfigured possibilities of our current world gathers. I use clinical examples to suggest that the disruptive elements constitutive of embodiment, as well as its potential porosity with the more-than-human world, make gender a possible site of resistance and ethical response-ability in the context of the climate crisis. Gender can become a powerful medium for an experience of a circulation between the density of the familiar and an alterity that is inside/outside. At the same time, as our usual coordinates are lost, the immersive panic that ensues also creates attempts to reinforce a threatened heteropatriarchal world, as is seen in Far Right ideologies. Attacks on trans children frequently center on defending “the natural” and protecting these children from “mutilation” and the “contagion” of gender ideology. The paper explores the way these claims project destructiveness and perversely distort several terrors entangled with the climate crisis—about “nature,” violence, and permeability
Alterity · Climate change · Context (archaeology) · Moral panic · Panic · Resistance (ecology) · Work (physics) · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
Bodily Natures
How Forests Think
The Nutmeg's Curse
The Fierce Urgency of Now
Dense Temporalities and Displaced Risk
Prefiguring Ontological Theory and Method beyond “The Human”
What is the Social
Psychoanalysis as “Studio Practice”
We need to (find a way to) talk about … Eco-anxiety
The Great Derangement
Racial Identities, Racial Enactments, and Normative Unconscious Processes
Mourning the Body as Bedrock
Embodied Attunement and Participation
Moving from Within The Maternal
The Specter of the Primitive
Active Perception and the Search for Sensory Symbiosis
Thinking in a marrow Bone
Psychoanalysis and Climate Change
Why perversion? 'False love' and the perverse pact
TransMaterialities
| Highly cited | No |
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