Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Trans Studies, 2022
Introduction: In this chapter, we will argue that within a Deleuzo-Guattarian ontology of bodies,... more Introduction: In this chapter, we will argue that within a Deleuzo-Guattarian ontology of bodies, gendered difference does not appear as the fixed property of a body but exists instead within and through a body’s relations.1 This assertion is important because cisnormative (or trans-exclusive) logics of sex and gender presuppose and demand fixity: it is only by pinning down the meaning of a body that that body can become recognized as a person, since all persons are by default required to be gendered subjects.
Treating gender as pure relation, however, creates new problems. If, on the one hand, gender is strictly relational, then common understandings of transgender as an expression of originary or innate gender identity become difficult to maintain. Rejecting the terms of trans2 self-identification, on the other hand, risks acquiescing to cisnormative territorializations, that is, the imposition of cisnormative gender relations that induce dysphoria and discrimination. These territorializations are destructive to trans bodies and lives, as individual agency becomes subordinated to a contested public consensus over who trans people ‘really’ are. Making too quick a shift to a notionally horizontal, undifferentiated relationality ignores the fact that all difference is not created equal.
In this article, I review an experiment in posthumanist fieldwork. The purpose of the experiment ... more In this article, I review an experiment in posthumanist fieldwork. The purpose of the experiment is to draw out a multi-species politics of nature and land use in the Huleh Wetlands marking the northern tip of the Jordan Rift Valley. Here, associations unfolding between text and image are presented as work in progress – a hybrid between traditional academic writing and the artists’ crit session. My intention is to test out emergent ideas about the potential of observational drawing, as a method for attunement to spatial, temporal, material and cultural relations that play out in the ‘storying’ of a landscape. The experiment extends recent methodological invention in cultural geographical research, informed by an interest in art’s generative function of opening up a ‘space to reconnect’ with the nonhuman world. The specific skilled practice of observational drawing, despite its long history as a primary mode of research in geography and the natural sciences, remains underexplored in this contemporary context.
This article explores the changing nature of the flood archive, drawing on different disciplinary... more This article explores the changing nature of the flood archive, drawing on different disciplinary perspectives, approaches and attitudes. It uses a braiding metaphor to map a journey around shifting islands that contain different primary research on flood archives – in expert hydrology, in lay flood knowledges, in capturing flood narratives and memories, in drawing on folk song as an informal archive and in charting archives for a fluid landscape. The narrative and critical commentary ‘in the flow’ draws out interlinking themes, exploring what forms of archive can capture, and share reflections on, a landscape that is increasingly or episodically wet – a fluid landscape? It explores different facets of the flood archive: in terms of fact versus fiction, the changing nature of material archived, who archives, changing archival practice, changing use of archives and future archives. It concludes that informal archives have the potential to form a key resource in communities learning to live with changing flood risk and uncertainty.
Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Trans Studies, 2022
Introduction: In this chapter, we will argue that within a Deleuzo-Guattarian ontology of bodies,... more Introduction: In this chapter, we will argue that within a Deleuzo-Guattarian ontology of bodies, gendered difference does not appear as the fixed property of a body but exists instead within and through a body’s relations.1 This assertion is important because cisnormative (or trans-exclusive) logics of sex and gender presuppose and demand fixity: it is only by pinning down the meaning of a body that that body can become recognized as a person, since all persons are by default required to be gendered subjects.
Treating gender as pure relation, however, creates new problems. If, on the one hand, gender is strictly relational, then common understandings of transgender as an expression of originary or innate gender identity become difficult to maintain. Rejecting the terms of trans2 self-identification, on the other hand, risks acquiescing to cisnormative territorializations, that is, the imposition of cisnormative gender relations that induce dysphoria and discrimination. These territorializations are destructive to trans bodies and lives, as individual agency becomes subordinated to a contested public consensus over who trans people ‘really’ are. Making too quick a shift to a notionally horizontal, undifferentiated relationality ignores the fact that all difference is not created equal.
In this article, I review an experiment in posthumanist fieldwork. The purpose of the experiment ... more In this article, I review an experiment in posthumanist fieldwork. The purpose of the experiment is to draw out a multi-species politics of nature and land use in the Huleh Wetlands marking the northern tip of the Jordan Rift Valley. Here, associations unfolding between text and image are presented as work in progress – a hybrid between traditional academic writing and the artists’ crit session. My intention is to test out emergent ideas about the potential of observational drawing, as a method for attunement to spatial, temporal, material and cultural relations that play out in the ‘storying’ of a landscape. The experiment extends recent methodological invention in cultural geographical research, informed by an interest in art’s generative function of opening up a ‘space to reconnect’ with the nonhuman world. The specific skilled practice of observational drawing, despite its long history as a primary mode of research in geography and the natural sciences, remains underexplored in this contemporary context.
This article explores the changing nature of the flood archive, drawing on different disciplinary... more This article explores the changing nature of the flood archive, drawing on different disciplinary perspectives, approaches and attitudes. It uses a braiding metaphor to map a journey around shifting islands that contain different primary research on flood archives – in expert hydrology, in lay flood knowledges, in capturing flood narratives and memories, in drawing on folk song as an informal archive and in charting archives for a fluid landscape. The narrative and critical commentary ‘in the flow’ draws out interlinking themes, exploring what forms of archive can capture, and share reflections on, a landscape that is increasingly or episodically wet – a fluid landscape? It explores different facets of the flood archive: in terms of fact versus fiction, the changing nature of material archived, who archives, changing archival practice, changing use of archives and future archives. It concludes that informal archives have the potential to form a key resource in communities learning to live with changing flood risk and uncertainty.
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Treating gender as pure relation, however, creates new problems. If, on the one hand, gender is strictly relational, then common understandings of transgender as an expression of originary or innate gender identity become difficult to maintain. Rejecting the terms of trans2 self-identification, on the other hand, risks acquiescing to cisnormative territorializations, that is, the imposition of cisnormative gender relations that induce dysphoria and discrimination. These territorializations are destructive to trans bodies and lives, as individual agency becomes subordinated to a contested public consensus over who trans people ‘really’ are. Making too quick a shift to a notionally horizontal, undifferentiated relationality ignores the fact that all difference is not created equal.
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Treating gender as pure relation, however, creates new problems. If, on the one hand, gender is strictly relational, then common understandings of transgender as an expression of originary or innate gender identity become difficult to maintain. Rejecting the terms of trans2 self-identification, on the other hand, risks acquiescing to cisnormative territorializations, that is, the imposition of cisnormative gender relations that induce dysphoria and discrimination. These territorializations are destructive to trans bodies and lives, as individual agency becomes subordinated to a contested public consensus over who trans people ‘really’ are. Making too quick a shift to a notionally horizontal, undifferentiated relationality ignores the fact that all difference is not created equal.