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Cancer Ecologies: A Queer Femme Portal invites readers on a journey through the tangled roots of the current cancer epidemic.
Moving between personal accounts and eco-critical reflections, the Nina Lykke and Camila Marambio ask: What if cancer is not just a personal tragedy or monstrous invader, but a symptom of Earth in distress – a message from the planet itself? Challenging the idea of cancer as an isolated enemy to be eradicated, this book sees it as a manifestation of the toxic entanglements of the Anthropocene: capitalist extraction, colonial exploitation, and environmental degradation.
Through an eco-ethics of softness, the authors – one living with cancer, the other a carer to a partner who died from it – explore how cancer might be approached as a portal: as a conversation between pain and possibility, between necropolitics and vibrantly ongoing life. Encouraging readers to understand themselves not as separate from Earth, but as lovers entangled with peatmoss, the microalgae, diatoms, and other humble creatures that sustain us, Cancer Ecologies experiments with a genre-bending methodology: part poetic story-telling and part eco-philosophical analysis. The book offers a transformative rethinking of cancer: less as a battle, more as an invitation to compost grief and cultivate ongoing cycles of life and death, rooted in relationality, shared vulnerability, and practices of joy.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Queer Companions
Interrupter I. The Blue Rabbit, and Born from a Mountain
Chapter 2. Cancer Ecologies
Interrupter II. A Liver Tumor's Story
Chapter 3. Cancer as Talent
Interrupter III. Brotherhood
Chapter 4. A Compassionate Companion's Cancer Contemplations
Interrupter IV. Dreamscapes - A Triptych
Chapter 5. The Danger of Being (Me) Model
Interrupter V. Cave Interview
Chapter 6. My Body is a Bog
Interrupter VI. Summonings
Chapter 7. Thinking about Evolution and Ecology from the Perspective of Cancer Cells
Interrupter VII. Notes from my Seaside Diary
Chapter 8. Loving Diatoms - Queering Cancer
Interrupter VIII. The Weird Recording
Chapter 9. A Queer Femme Eco-Ethics of Softness
Epilogue: Softness - A Shared Meditation in Twinned Voices
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| Published | May 14 2026 |
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| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 360 |
| ISBN | 9781350504639 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | Theory in the New Humanities |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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