Kathryn Yusoff

Kathryn Yusoff (* 20th century ) is a geographer and since September 2013 Professor of Inhuman Geography at the School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London . In her work she deals with geosocial formations in the Anthropocene .

Life

Kathryn Yusoff received her bachelor's degree from Northumbria University and her master's degree from Bath Spa University . In 2005 she received her PhD in geography from the Royal Holloway University of London with the thesis "Arresting visions: a geographical theory of Antarctic light". Before joining the Queen Mary University of London, she was a lecturer at Lancaster University and the University of Exeter .

From October to December 2017 she was an IAS Fellow at St Cuthbert's Society, Durham University . From December 2019 to February 2020 she was a Senior Fellow at the IKKM in Weimar, where she did research on the research project "Geologies of Race".

research

In her book A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None , Yusoff deals with questions of critical historiography and origin narratives in relation to the Anthropocene. She confronts geological assumptions with analyzes of the Critical Race Theory and shows the mostly colonial nature of geological knowledge. She refers to feminist-decolonial authors such as Sylvia Wynter, Denise Ferreira da Silva and Frantz Fanon .

She is currently working on a book on "Geologic Life", in which she deals with the geology of racism during colonialism and its aftermath in the discussions about the Anthropocene.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None . University of Minnesota Press , 2019, ISBN 978-1-5179-0753-2 .

items

• "White Utopia / Black Inferno: Life on a Geologic Spike" , in: e-flux , Issue # 97, 2019.
• "Geologic Realism: On the Beach of Geologic Time", in: Social Text, 37/1, 2019, 1–26.
• With Myra J. Hird : "Lines of shite: microbial-mineral chatter in the Anthropocene", in: Posthuman Ecologies. Complexity and Process After Deleuze , ed. v. Rosi Braidotti et al. Simone Bignall, Rowan & Littlefield , 2019.
• "The Anthropocene and geographies of geopower", in: Handbook on the Geographies of Power , ed. v. Mat Coleman et al. John Agnew, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018, 203-216.
• With Nigel Clark: Queer Fire: Ecology, Combustion and Pyrosexual Desire, in: Feminist Review , 118, 2018.
• "Epochal Aesthetics: Affectual Infrastructures of the Anthropocene", in: e-flux , 2017.
• "Queer Coal: Genealogies in / of the Blood", in: philoSOPHIA , 5, 2015, 203-229.
• With Nigel Clark : "Combustion and Society: A Fire-Centered History of Energy Use", in: Theory, Culture and Society , 31, 2014, 203–226.

Web links

• Queen Mary University of London website.
• Lecture: "The Anthropocene: A New Epoch of Thought?"
• Detailed list of publications

Individual evidence

1. ^ Profile on the website of the Queen Mary University of London. Retrieved September 17, 2019 . 
2. ^ Queen Mary University of London Geography Undergraduate Prospectus. Retrieved October 20, 2019 . 
3. ^ Research Directory of Lancester University. Retrieved September 17, 2019 . 
4. ^ Lancester University website. Retrieved September 17, 2019 . 
5. ^ Durham University website. Retrieved September 17, 2019 . 
6. ↑ IKKM Weimar. Retrieved February 23, 2020 . 
7. ↑ website of the Institue for Contemporary Art Miami. Retrieved September 17, 2019 .