Edward Carpenter’s Queer Ecology of the Everyday

This article considers the place of the everyday in Edward Carpenter’s life and writings through the concept of queer ecology, which draws on queer theory to challenge and expand the possibilities for pleasure, experience, and relationships that occur in the interactions between human and non-human...

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Main Author: Wendy Parkins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2018-07-01
Series:19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Online Access:https://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/803
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spelling doaj-1bc42bcd6ed5401eb2fbdb6d308007502021-06-02T10:37:58ZengOpen Library of Humanities19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century1755-15602018-07-012610.16995/ntn.803732Edward Carpenter’s Queer Ecology of the EverydayWendy Parkins0University of KentThis article considers the place of the everyday in Edward Carpenter’s life and writings through the concept of queer ecology, which draws on queer theory to challenge and expand the possibilities for pleasure, experience, and relationships that occur in the interactions between human and non-human agents. The simple mode of everyday life based on a more direct relationship with the natural world, as described and advocated by Carpenter, was one that foregrounded desire and other intensities of experience, and had the capacity to transform the everyday.https://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/803
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description This article considers the place of the everyday in Edward Carpenter’s life and writings through the concept of queer ecology, which draws on queer theory to challenge and expand the possibilities for pleasure, experience, and relationships that occur in the interactions between human and non-human agents. The simple mode of everyday life based on a more direct relationship with the natural world, as described and advocated by Carpenter, was one that foregrounded desire and other intensities of experience, and had the capacity to transform the everyday.
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