Performing Nature at World's Ends

Abstract

In introducing this special edition, we argue that a shift in emphasis from positionality and representation to performativity and ontology offers a new approach to thinking about nature categories. Rather than criticising dualisms, we focus on how nature categories are produced and reproduced. The article addresses contexts of settler societies and industrial modernity, where concepts of wilderness and nature are called into play. We show how the articles in this volume together give new perspectives on how nature concepts are used and how they are made into relations or promoted to underpin social movements. By thinking about the 'relational ontologies' of nature, we offer a way to integrate contemporary insights from anthropology, philosophy, queer studies and science studies.

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