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  • 5 - Strangers on the Land? Rural LGBTQs and Queer Sustainabilities

  • from Part II - Embodied Environmental Sociology
  • Edited by Katharine Legun, Julie C. Keller, University of Rhode Island, Michael Carolan, Colorado State University, Michael M. Bell, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology
    Published online:
    05 November 2020
    Print publication:
    03 December 2020, pp 87-102

  • Summary

    This chapter focuses on strengthening the analytical lens used to examine the sexuality–environment connection. Using the case of LGBTQ farmers and queer rural folks more generally, I argue for more theoretical and empirical work within environmental sociology that focuses on queer issues. I highlight the politics behind the exclusion of LGBTQs from rural spaces and review the rich scholarship documenting the lives of rural queers. I discuss recent efforts by the US Department of Agriculture to include rural LGBTQs in its programming, then turn to the scholarship on LGBTQ farmers and queers working in sustainable agriculture. I highlight emerging “eco-queer movements” grounded in LGBTQ rights and environmentalism, particularly land projects and alternative food spaces. The intersectional approaches used by practitioners on the ground have much to offer to the field. I conclude with a discussion of the importance of integrating sexuality as an important dimension of environmental justice and environmental sociology.