Queer Intimacies in Human-Animal Relations

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Schrijvers, Elisabeth Deborah (2020)

Queer Intimacies in Human-Animal Relations

Research master thesis | Literary Studies (research) (MA)

In this thesis I want to create an intersectional, queer intervention in animal studies taking previous animal, critical race studies and queer theory intersections – ecofeminism, material feminism and queer ecology – into account within the context of literary studies and cultural analysis. Therefore, I want to ask: In what way do intersectional alliances – both theoretical and artistic – formed from an animal and queer studies perspective, affirmatively (re)imagine (material) queer intimacies human-nonhuman relations to contribute to an nonanthropocentric framework? To answer this question, I want to employ the term/concept queer as both a critical and productive tool that enables transgression of disciplines and even the academy itself, into the material reality of non-human animals to examine human-animal relations and intimacies.

animal studies

queer theory

intersectionaltiy

critical race studies

film

literature

video installation

new materialist feminism

cultural analysis