Fatal Masculinities : A Queer Look at Green Violence
(2017) In ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 16(3). p.548-575- Abstract
- The militarized response to the rhino poaching crisis in southern Africa exposes poachers to “fatal couplings of power and difference” (Gilmore 2002). While the racialized dimensions of this phenomenon are currently the subject of robust debate, this paper focuses on how race, gender, and sexuality are co-constructed in the anti-poaching discourse. Bringing the work of geographer Ruth Wilson Gilmore into conversation with Frantz Fanon’s psycho-existential exposition of race, we read several campaign texts against their landscapes, revealing the role that gendered constructions of racial subjects play in justifying the extrajudicial killing of rhino poachers. We conclude that a geographic-linguistic approach to textual analysis usefully... (More)
- The militarized response to the rhino poaching crisis in southern Africa exposes poachers to “fatal couplings of power and difference” (Gilmore 2002). While the racialized dimensions of this phenomenon are currently the subject of robust debate, this paper focuses on how race, gender, and sexuality are co-constructed in the anti-poaching discourse. Bringing the work of geographer Ruth Wilson Gilmore into conversation with Frantz Fanon’s psycho-existential exposition of race, we read several campaign texts against their landscapes, revealing the role that gendered constructions of racial subjects play in justifying the extrajudicial killing of rhino poachers. We conclude that a geographic-linguistic approach to textual analysis usefully exposes the interconnectedness of gender, race, and sexuality at the heart of a modern conservationist campaign, and suggest that this framework complements queer geographic and intersectional approaches to racism. (Less)
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- Burnett, Scott LU and Milani, Tommaso M.
- publishing date
- 2017
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- Contribution to journal
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- keywords
- Rhino poaching, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Frantz Fanon, Linguistic landscapes, South Africa, Green violence
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- ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies
- volume
- 16
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 28 pages
- publisher
- Okanagan University College
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- scopus:85031667166
- ISSN
- 1492-9732
- language
- English
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title = {{Fatal Masculinities : A Queer Look at Green Violence}},
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