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Deviant Hollers: Queering Appalachian Ecologies for a Sustainable Future
Author(s): Zane McNeill (Editor), Rebecca Scott (Editor), Stephanie Foote (Foreword)
- Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
- Publication Date: April 1, 2024
- Language: English
- Print length: 246 pages
- ISBN-10: 0813199301
- ISBN-13: 9780813199306
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Centering a critique of settler colonialism, Deviant Hollers brilliantly envisions environmental politics away from the constraints of econormativity.”―Heather Davis, author of Plastic Matter
“A rich collection of work that delightfully confounds typical narratives of what it means to be from, and live in, Appalachia by offering future possibilities for queer belonging, environmental justice, and liberation.”―stef shuster, author of Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender
“An expansive and evocative rethinking of Appalachian studies. Beyond challenging metronormative narratives of queer urban-ness or presenting Appalachian cultures and geographies as queered with regard to US national norms, the collection addresses how those dynamics are themselves enmeshed within ongoing histories of settler colonialism in which non-Indigenous Appalachians participate.”―Mark Rifkin, author of Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination
“Pushing against narratives of the region that include only white, patriarchal, and heteronormative characterizations, the authors collected in Deviant Hollers hope to open up new spaces of possibility for Appalachia’s future. . . . With its candor and nuance, Deviant Hollers makes a valuable addition to a growing body of literature that insists upon a thorough course correction to reductive regional stereotypes.”―Emily Choate, Chapter 16
“For the reader newly interested in queerness, racialization(s), the impacts of colonization, the import of nonhumans, and these ideas’ various overlaps with Appalachian ecologies, then this collection of essays could readily become a map of sorts to navigate the various intersections and ways to meander through such complexities.“―Caleb Pendygraft, Appalachian Journal
“Overwhelmingly, Deviant Hollers raises important questions and pushes its audience to consider Appalachian studies through intersectional frameworks. . . . The book carefully and lovingly calls us to consider ourselves and our own positionality.”―Journal of Appalachian Studies
About the Author
Zane McNeill 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.
