Deviant Hollers: Queering Appalachian Ecologies for a Sustainable Future uses the lens of queer ecologies to explore environmental destruction in Appalachia while mapping out alternative futures that follow from critical queer perspectives on the United States’ exploitation of the land. With essays by Lis Regula, Jessica Cory, Chet Pancake, Tijah Bumgarner, MJ Eckhouse, and other essential thinkers, this collection brings to light both emergent and long-standing marginalized perspectives that give renewed energy to the struggle for a sustainable future. A new and valuable contribution to the field of Appalachian studies, rural queer studies, Indigenous studies, and ethnographic studies of the United States, Deviant Hollers presents a much-needed objection to the status quo of academic work, as well as to the American exceptionalism and white supremacy pervading US politics and the broader geopolitical climate. By focusing on queer critiques and acknowledging the status of Appalachia as a settler colony, Deviant Hollers offers new possibilities for a reimagined way of life.
Table of Content
Foreword, by Stephanie Foote
Introduction, by Rebecca Scott and Zane Mc Neill
1. Re-presenting the Narrative: Pursuing Stories Amidst Addiction, by Tijah Bumgarner
2. Intoxicated Subjects: Queer Bodies and Ecologies in ‘Trumpalachia’, by Rebecca-Eli M. Long and Zane Mc Neill
3. Queers Embracing Place in Appalachia: The Importance of Masculinities for Queer Acceptance, by Baker A. Rogers
4. Unsilencing Indigeneity: Appalachian Studies, Appalachian Ecologies, and the Continuation of Settler Colonialism, by Jessica Cory
5. It’s Grandpa’s Land: Settler Property, Heteropatriarchy and Environmental Disasters, by Kandice Grossman, Aaron Padgett, and Rebecca Scott
6. Edible Kent: Collaboration, Decentralization, and Sustainable Agriculture in Urban Food Systems, by Lis Regula and MJ Eckhouse
7. Arboreal Blockaders: ‘Queer/Trans Moments of Critical Appalachian Eco-Action’, by Chet Pancake
8. Masculinities in the Decline of Coal: Queer Futures in the Appalachian Coalfields, by Gabe Schwartzmann
9. ‘I Fixed Up the Trees to Give Them Some New Life:’: Queer Desire, Affect, and Ecology in the Work of LGBTQ+ Appalachian Artists, by Maxwell Cloe
Contributor Biographies
About the author
Zane Mc Neill is an independent scholar-activist from West Virginia who has published edited collections with PM Press, Routledge, and Lantern Publishing & Media. Rebecca R. Scott is associate professor of sociology at the University of Missouri, where she teaches classes on environmental justice, gender, and social theory. She is the author of Removing Mountains: Extracting Nature and Identity from the Appalachian Coalfields.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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