The Unlively
Protesting Fossil Fuel Pollution with David Buckel
Sofia Varino(Author)
Routledge India (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 2. September 2026
120 pages
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978-1-042-50324-7 (ISBN)
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This book examines air pollution and extinction by looking into how they might contribute, conceptually and politically, to a queer ecopolitics of death. It focuses on the figure of David Buckel, an American LGBT rights lawyer and environmentalist, who self-immolated to protest fossil fuel pollution in 2018. The author considers Buckel's death as an act of political protest, whereby a (singular) living body attacks itself as a response to the (collective) extinction of non/human life forms. The book mobilizes the materiality of death and non/human extinction, proposing the concept of the "unlively" as that which negates life or is incapable of vitality, to account for Buckel's self-immolation as well as the deadly effects of fossil fuel air pollution.
Part of the Routledge Critical Perspectives on Breath and Breathing series, the book will be indispensable for students and researchers of political ecology, environmental humanities, gender studies, and queer theory, alongside the emerging fields of queer death studies, discard studies, and critical breath studies.
Part of the Routledge Critical Perspectives on Breath and Breathing series, the book will be indispensable for students and researchers of political ecology, environmental humanities, gender studies, and queer theory, alongside the emerging fields of queer death studies, discard studies, and critical breath studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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ISBN-13
978-1-042-50324-7 (9781042503247)
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approx. 09/2026
1st Edition
Routledge India
€191.50
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Person
Sofia Varino, PhD, is co-author of Aquatopia: Climate Interventions (2023) and co-editor of a special issue of Somatechnics (2019). Varino's research interests span political ecology, feminist science studies, and American studies. They teach at Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany.
Content
Introduction: The Air We Breathe 1. What We Are Doing to Ourselves 2. One in Five: Tracing Fossil Fuel Air Pollution 3. Political Atmospheres: Breathing with David Buckel 4. Out of Breath: Unlively Times and the Politics of Impermanence Coda: The Afterlives of David Buckel
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