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- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright
- © Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
- ISBN
- 978-3-319-62138-8
- Pages
- 23 –33
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-62140-1_2
- Publisher site
- See Chapter on Publisher Site
Abstract
Chapter 2 Passionately Posthuman: From Feminist Disidentifications to Postdisciplinary Posthumanities Nina Lykke I hold a doctoral degree from a faculty of the humanities and was educated as a lit- erary scholar, but my relationship to the humanities has for years been ambivalent and troubled. I do not easily identify as a humanities scholar. Instead, I have come to position myself as a posthumanist and postconstructionist feminist scholar who belong to an international, trans- and postdisciplinary scholarly community of critical intellectuals with various kinds of affiliations to political movements which struggle for social and environmental justice – feminist, queer, transgender, anti-racist, anti-colonial, anti-ableist, environmental etc. movements. In academic terms, I am professor of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, which I define as a post- disciplinary discipline as elaborately reflected in earlier work (Lykke 2010, 2011). In this chapter, I will make myself accountable for my troubled relationship to the humanities and elaborate on the ways in which I position myself in a feminist version of postdisciplinary posthumanities. Iwill first present my ambivalent position of belonging as well as not belonging to the humanities. Alongside of my argument, I shall also suggest that the huma- nities can be considered as an imagined community
Published: May 18, 2018