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The Climate Crisis and the "Unnatural" Body: Onto-epistemological Possibilities of and Threats to the Genders of Children and Adolescents.
| Title: | The Climate Crisis and the "Unnatural" Body: Onto-epistemological Possibilities of and Threats to the Genders of Children and Adolescents. |
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| Authors: | Fiorella K |
| Source: | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association [J Am Psychoanal Assoc] 2026 Oct; Vol. 74 (5), pp. 817-845. Date of Electronic Publication: 2025 Nov 21. |
| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
| Journal Info: | Publisher: International Universities Press Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 7505579 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1941-2460 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00030651 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Am Psychoanal Assoc Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Imprint Name(s): | Publication: 2008- : Thousand Oaks, Ca. : Sage Publications, : International Universities Press Original Publication: New York, International Universities Press. |
| MeSH Terms: | Climate Change* , Gender Identity*, Humans ; Child ; Adolescent ; Female ; Male |
| Abstract: | Utilizing the work of philosopher Karen Barad, this paper explores the intraplays between gender, antigender discourse, and the climate crisis. In the midst of a world that is ecologically breaking down, gendered embodiment is a domain in which, for some, the dismay, despair, and reconfigured possibilities of our current world gathers. I use clinical examples to suggest that the disruptive elements constitutive of embodiment, as well as its potential porosity with the more-than-human world, make gender a possible site of resistance and ethical response-ability in the context of the climate crisis. Gender can become a powerful medium for an experience of a circulation between the density of the familiar and an alterity that is inside/outside. At the same time, as our usual coordinates are lost, the immersive panic that ensues also creates attempts to reinforce a threatened heteropatriarchal world, as is seen in Far Right ideologies. Attacks on trans children frequently center on defending "the natural" and protecting these children from "mutilation" and the "contagion" of gender ideology. The paper explores the way these claims project destructiveness and perversely distort several terrors entangled with the climate crisis-about "nature," violence, and permeability. |
| Contributed Indexing: | Keywords: Far Right ideology; Karen Barad; climate crisis; ecological thinking; gender; trans children |
| Entry Date(s): | Date Created: 20251121 Date Completed: 20260919 Latest Revision: 20260919 |
| Update Code: | 20260920 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/00030651251377755 |
| PMID: | 41268676 |
| Database: | MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1941-2460 |
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| DOI: | 10.1177/00030651251377755 |