Catriona Sandilands is a Canadian writer and scholar in the environmental humanities. She is most well known for her conception of queer ecology.[1][2][3] She is currently a Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. She was a Canada Research Chair in Sustainability and Culture between 2004 and 2014.[4] She was a Fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation in 2016.[5] Sandilands served as president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment in 2015.[6] She is also a past President of the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC) and the American Society for Literature and the Environment (ASLE).[6][7]
Catriona Sandilands | |
|---|---|
| 22nd President of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment | |
| In office 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Mark C. Long |
| Succeeded by | Christoph Irmscher Anthony Lioi |
| Personal details | |
| Citizenship | Canadian |
| Education | MA, PhD |
| Alma mater | York University |
| Profession | Academician |
Education
editSandilands received a BA in sociology from the University of Victoria and subsequently an MA and PhD in sociology from York University.
Research
editSandilands' first book, The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy was published in 1999 by University of Minnesota Press.[8] It explores identity, gender and democracy through the lens of ecofeminism and the perceived relationships between the category of "women" and nature.[3][9] Sandilands invokes a multitude of contemporary feminist and political theorizations of democracy, including Donna Haraway's cyborg feminism. The Good-Natured Feminist was described as "a strikingly original and vitally important contribution to debates in feminist theory, environmental thought, and cultural studies ...... an essential text not only for those engaged in ecofeminist projects, but, more broadly, for anyone interested in feminism, environmentalism, or social and political theory."[10] In 2004, Sandilands co-edited the multidisciplinary anthology This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment with Melody Hessing and Rebecca Raglon.[11]
Her most well-known work to date, Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire,[1] co-edited with Bruce Erickson, was "the first book-length volume to establish the intersections of queer theory and environmentalisms at such depth .... [and] created a rich field for further research."[2] It "advances her earlier work on ecofeminism, democracy and sexuality",[12] and explores "such issues as animal sex, species politics, environmental justice, lesbian space and "gay" ghettos, AIDS literatures, and queer nationalities".[1]
Sandilands has also written extensively on environment, society, culture and literature in publications such as The Guardian[13] and the Los Angeles Review of Books.[14] In 2013, Lisa Szabo-Jones wrote that Sandilands, Pamela Banting, and Stephanie Posthumus were "three figures who were instrumental in bringing meetings together" at the 2005 ASLE Conference, which led to the formation of ALECC and the creation of ALECC's flagship journal The Goose.[15]
Selected publications
edit- "This Land Has Called Forth from You Your Strength as a Lesbian": A Separatist Ecology? (Toronto: Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Studies, University of Toronto, Research Monograph #5). 50 pp. (2002)
- The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press). 245 pp. (1999)[16]
References
edit- ^ a b c Mortimer-Sandilands, Catriona; Erickson, Bruce; Mortimer-Sandilands, Catriona; Erickson, Bruce (2010). Queer ecologies : sex, nature, politics, desire. Bloomington, Ind. ISBN 9780253004741. OCLC 670429594.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b Gaard, Greta (2011). "Green, Pink, and Lavender: Banishing Ecophobia through Queer Ecologies, Review of Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire, Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson, eds". Ethics and the Environment. 16 (2): 115–126. doi:10.2979/ethicsenviro.16.2.115. S2CID 141843845.
- ^ a b Disch, Lisa Jane; Hawkesworth, M. E. (2016), The Oxford handbook of feminist theory, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-932858-1
- ^ "Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Sustainability and Culture – Faculty of Environmental Studies". fes.yorku.ca. Retrieved 2018-10-19.
- ^ norah.cyprien (2016-07-22). "Catriona Sandilands". Fondation Trudeau. Retrieved 2018-10-19.
- ^ a b ASLE WELCOMES NEWLY ELECTED OFFICERS, ASLE NEWS, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, January 1, 2014. Accessed October 21, 2018
- ^ About ALECC, Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC). Accessed October 21, 2018
- ^ Mortimer-Sandilands, Catriona (1999). The good-natured feminist : ecofeminism and the quest for democracy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816688869. OCLC 614485156.
- ^ MacGregor, Sherilyn (2006), Beyond mothering earth : ecological citizenship and the politics of care, UBC Press, ISBN 978-0-7748-1201-6
- ^ Alaimo, Stacy (1 September 2001). "Wild Democracy: The Politics of Ecofeminism Sandilands, Catriona. 1999. The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press". Topia. 6: 121–123. doi:10.3138/topia.6.121.
- ^ Reviews:
- Vahabzadeh, Peyman (2006). "Reviewed Work: This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment". The Canadian Journal of Sociology. 31 (1): 150–153. doi:10.1353/cjs.2006.0031. JSTOR 20058688. S2CID 144449943.
- Dean, Joanna (2007). "Reviewed Work: This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment". Environmental History. 12 (4): 1001–1002. doi:10.1093/envhis/12.4.1001. JSTOR 25473175.
- ^ Gaard, Greta (2011). "Ecofeminism Revisited: Rejecting Essentialism and Re-Placing Species in a Material Feminist Environmentalism". Feminist Formations. 23 (2): 26–53. doi:10.1353/ff.2011.0017. JSTOR 41301655. S2CID 145195744.
- ^ Sandilands, Catriona (9 July 2018). "I see my garden as a barometer of climate change". The Guardian.
- ^ "Not Just Pussy Hats on the Climate March: Feminist Encounters with the Anthropocene - Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
- ^ Szabo-Jones, Lisa (2013). "Taking Flight: From Little Grey Birds to The Goose". Greening The Maple. University of Calgary Press. p. 544.
- ^ Reviews:
- Wismer, Susan (2000). "Reviewed Work: The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy by Catriona Sandilands". Canadian Journal of Political Science. 33 (1): 199–201. JSTOR 3232653.
- Clarke, Melissa (2001). "Review". NWSA Journal. 13 (2): 210–213. JSTOR 4316834.
- Stack, Sue (2000). "The Good-Natured Feminist". Environmental Practice. 2 (4). National Association of Environmental Professionals: 323–324. doi:10.1017/S1466046600001885. S2CID 130439153.