Animal Sex in Public: Warping Time and Sexuality in the Zoo

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Animal Sex in Public: Warping Time and Sexuality in the Zoo

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Animal Sex in Public: Warping Time and Sexuality in the Zoo

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Environmental Humanities

ISSN

2201-1919

e-ISSN

2201-1919

Svazek periodika

14

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

20

Strana od-do

641-660

Kód UT WoS článku

—

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85143284888