Animal Sex in Public: Warping Time and Sexuality in the Zoo
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378076%3A_____%2F22%3A00565560" target="_blank" >RIV/68378076:_____/22:00565560 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/14/3/641/319750/Animal-Sex-in-PublicWarping-Time-and-Sexuality-in" target="_blank" >https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/14/3/641/319750/Animal-Sex-in-PublicWarping-Time-and-Sexuality-in</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/22011919-9962948" target="_blank" >10.1215/22011919-9962948</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Animal Sex in Public: Warping Time and Sexuality in the Zoo
Original language description
Contemporary zoological gardens are hoping to delay the sixth mass extinction through captive breeding of endangered species. This article explores the dominant temporal orders invoked by managing animal sex in captivity in order to unfold unnatural histories of the zoo. Departing from the queer critique of reproductive futurism, it demonstrates that in the modern zoo, reproduction is removed from sexuality. By mapping out the more-than-human dimensions of chronopolitics at the zoo, this article unravels the complex process of transposing sexual acts into temporally fixed sexuality. To account for multiple pasts and futures of captive sex, this analysis employs the category of queer animality. Tracing the fascination with animal homosexuality to early sexological taxonomies, this article argues that anchoring sexual identity in animality is an anachronistic move that rests on the myth of timeless nature. At the same time, the sexological distinction between constitutional and circumstantial homosexuality relies on two types of teleological temporality: developmental and degenerative time of evolutionary change. The zoo is not only a place where education of desire occurs along the deep time line of natural history but also a contested terrain of captivity that can cancel any claim to atemporal naturalness.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Environmental Humanities
ISSN
2201-1919
e-ISSN
2201-1919
Volume of the periodical
14
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
641-660
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85143284888