Urban Wilds
Urban Wilds is a seminar series that explores the ecological evolution of cities, focusing on wilderness as an ecological attribute that expresses freedom and possibility in urban spaces. The series examines how cities function as ecologically dynamic and fertile terrain that produces novel assemblages.
About the Seminar
Cities are largely spaces of control and repression, but they are also replete with ecologically empancipatory possibilities. Urban wilds are conceived in this seminar series as spaces where the constraints of contemporary urban socio-political life are attenuated, where people and living things can exist and evolve beyond the binds of capitalism, heteronormativity, classism, racism, xenophobia and gendered repression.
The Urban Wilds series takes a relational approach to ecology, valuing the relationships between and among life forms rather than fixed understandings of what is desirable and appropriate or how ecological systems function. Relationships that challenge or subvert oppressive and exclusionary understandings of ecology are foregrounded as ecological alternatives to the urban mainstream.
The Urban Wilds series is coordinated by Professor Jennifer Foster.
About Session 4: Queer Ecologies
The research and thought of queer ecologies advances rich understanding of the fundamental complexities and indeterminacy of nature. With a powerful critique of Western heteronormative projections of nature and culture, queer ecologies offer a more liberatory ecology that sharpens perceptions about what exists in the world and relational possibilities going forward.

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Speakers of Session 4: Queer Ecologies

Maxwell Matchim
Environmental Communicator, Naturalist and Artist

All sessions in this series

Terrain Vague
A conversation with Lisa Stinner-Kun and Karl Petschke.
Tuesday 29 October 2024 at 1pm

Habitat creation and reconciliation
A conversation with Gwen Lane, Sheila Boudreau and Lorraine Johnson
Tuesday 19 November 2024 at 1pm

Prison Ecologies
A conversation with Christophe Lewis, Lindsay Jennings and Vanessa.
Monday 20 January 2025 at 1pm

Coming Soon: Queer Ecologies
A conversation with Maxwell Matchim and Loren March.
Monday 10 February 2025 at 1pm.
Upcoming