This seminar examines how water can serve as a queer and decolonial analytic to challenge dominant frameworks of identity, ecology, and knowledge production. We will explore both metaphorical and material understandings of water to engage with key concepts such as fluidity, relationality, and resistance to hegemonic narratives. Drawing on Indigenous, queer of colour, and decolonial perspectives, the course interrogates the intersections of race, gender, colonialism, and environment. Students will critically analyze how these marginalized perspectives can subvert Euro-Western logics of exploitation and offer alternative paths toward justice and emancipation. The course integrates theoretical readings, speculative futures, and activist strategies to challenge static ideas of identity and nature, inviting students to resist colonial and cis-heteronormative frameworks. The seminar is structured to build on these critical issues in a cohesive manner. We begin with a theoretical exploration of fluid identities and queer ecologies, followed by a material examination of the historical and contemporary role of water in queer, racialized and colonial geographies. The discussion then shifts to how embracing fluidity serves as a political strategy for resisting hegemonic systems of classification and control. Lastly, the course examines how queer and decolonial perspectives on water can inform the creation of emancipatory futures. This structure ensures that students connect theoretical debates to real-world struggles for justice and transformative change.
Tinsley, O.N., 2008. BLACK ATLANTIC, QUEER ATLANTIC. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 14, 191–215. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2007-030
Hazard, C.W., 2022. Underflows: queer trans ecologies and river justice, Feminist technosciences. University of Washington Press, Seattle.
Todd, Z., 2017. Fish, Kin and Hope: Tending to Water Violations in amiskwaciwâskahikan and Treaty Six Territory. Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry 43, 102–107. https://doi.org/10.1086/692559
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