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Decolonial Posthumanism and Queer Kinship in the Capitalocene

Del Toro, Peyton Cristina
http://orcid.org/0009-0003-9336-9041
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1731067093159451

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2024, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, English.
For José Esteban Muñoz, queerness is not yet here–it exists beyond the here and now in a utopia we must believe in and imagine before we can build it. The current spatial- temporal “here and now” is understood, in this dissertation, as the capitalist realism defined by Mark Fisher. Meanwhile, Gloria Anzaldúa invites us to think about the consciousness that privileges indigenous ways of knowing and being, while recognizing the ways colonial logic has imprinted itself on our minds, bodies, communities, and spirits through mestiza consciousness and Nepantla. Bringing these two thinkers with me—my late queer, Latinx elders—I enter posthumanist, indigenous, and queer ecological discourse with Karen Barad, Donna Haraway, and Robin Wall Kimmerer. Muñoz sees queerness as a practice of becoming, and I approach indigeneity in a similar way, focusing on agency rather than a neoliberal or colonial understanding of it through the language of the colonizer. Barad's conceptualization of agential realism offers a way to understand indigeneity beyond anthropocentrism, emphasizing the relationality between people and their ecosystems. This framework highlights how indigeneity is an active, reciprocal process shaped by our connections with the natural world. The goal of this project is to call for hope, a hope that requires discipline, imagination, and care. I aim to inspire some material action regarding land stewardship and the #LandBack movement by addressing Kimmerer's call for re-story-ation through literary analysis.
Adéléke Adéè̳kó̳ (Committee Co-Chair)
Guisela Latorre (Committee Member)
Paloma Martinez-Cruz (Committee Co-Chair)
180 p.
Comparative Literature; Environmental Justice; Gender; Literature; Minority and Ethnic Groups; Modern Literature; Womens Studies
posthuman; posthumanism; decolonial; postcolonial; capitalocene; anthropocene; intra-action; agential realism; capitalist realism; capitalism; indigeneity; queerness; queer kinship

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  • Del Toro, P. C. (2024). Decolonial Posthumanism and Queer Kinship in the Capitalocene [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1731067093159451

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Del Toro, Peyton. Decolonial Posthumanism and Queer Kinship in the Capitalocene. 2024. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1731067093159451.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Del Toro, Peyton. "Decolonial Posthumanism and Queer Kinship in the Capitalocene." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1731067093159451

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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