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The Unlively: Protesting Fossil Fuel Pollution with David Buckel

The Unlively: Protesting Fossil Fuel Pollution with David Buckel

Varino, Sofia

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Critical Perspectives on Breath and Breathing

Environmental StudiesGeneral Gender StudiesGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 1032861614
ISBN13: 9781032861616
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: Sep 2 2026
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The Unlively: Protesting Fossil Fuel Pollution with David Buckel examines air pollution and extinction by looking into how they might contribute, conceptually and politically, to a queer ecopolitics of death. It focuses on the figure of David Buckel, an American LGBT rights lawyer and environmentalist, who self-immolated to protest fossil fuel pollution in 2018. The author considers Buckel's death as an act of political protest, whereby a (singular) living body attacks itself as a response to the (collective) extinction of non/human life forms. The book mobilizes the materiality of death and non/human extinction, proposing the concept of the unlively as that which negates life or is incapable of vitality, to account for Buckel's self-immolation as well as the deadly effects of fossil fuel air pollution.

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