Jennifer Hamilton and Astrida Neimanis
This essay is the product of thinking, researching and singing lullabies. As a practitioner-researcher in Hubbub, Holly Pester led a series of workshops that experimentally and collaboratively explored lullabies through conversation and improvised song. This led to an expanded project where Holly invited artists and musicians to collaborate on a col-lection of new lullabies, created through friendship and improvisation.
審稿：徐詩雨、吳虹霏
We propose that feminist studies are particularly well-situated to analyse the paradox of what ‘we humans’ want as we gaze into the eyes of planetary catastrophe.
本期特刊收錄的⽂章喚起了介於資本主義式的強迫消費、⾏動主義者⼀再號召的抵抗，以及酷兒女性主 義所勾勒出性與渴望的形狀（figuration）三者之間的張⼒。
Asking in turn what we as editors want from the project of feminist environmental humanities, we respond: (1) we want to spark new relations between desire and demand from within environmental crisis; (2) we want a fulsomely feminist environmental humanities; (3) we want to inhabit the difficult and necessary articulation of ‘feminism’ and ‘environment’; (4) we want multiple, situated, perversely scaled and historically awkward genealogies for environmental humanities; and (5) we want ‘to take up the burden of remaking our world’.
We contextualise these demands via a series of examples: the drought and bushfires currently gripping the places we are writing from; Betty Grumble’s performance LOVE AND ANGER; an origin story of feminist environmental humanities as told from our particular perspectives; and a 1943 short story, ‘Dry Spell’, by Australian writer Marjorie Barnard. We argue for the feminist potency of holding desire in tension with demand.
Keywords: feminism, environmental humanities, desire, climate change, environment
Copyright
Jennifer Mae Hamilton & Astrida Neimanis (2019) Five Desires, Five Demands, Australian Feminist Studies, 34:102, 385-397, DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2019.1702875