Abstract
| Original language | English |
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| Qualification | Doctor of Philosophy |
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| Award date | 21 Aug 2018 |
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| Publication status | Unpublished - 2018 |
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The unsettling eros of contact zones: queering evolution in the CandidaHomo ecology. / Bates, Tarsh.
2018.Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
TY - THES
T1 - The unsettling eros of contact zones: queering evolution in the CandidaHomo ecology
AU - Bates, Tarsh
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Candida albicans is a yeast, one species of the hundreds that thrive in the ecologies of the human body. We have co- evolved; Homo sapiens provides myriad ecological niches for C. albicans. This interdisciplinary project combines scientific experimentation, art-making, evolutionary ecology and queer theory to posit the human body as a queer ecology. The sexuality, performativity and community of C. albicans within this ecology are explored through science, art and evolutionary and queer theories. Three aspects of queerness, i.e., sexuality, gender, and kinship, are woven through three aspects of evolutionary theory, i.e., sexual, natural and kin selection, to form heterotopic alliances.
AB - Candida albicans is a yeast, one species of the hundreds that thrive in the ecologies of the human body. We have co- evolved; Homo sapiens provides myriad ecological niches for C. albicans. This interdisciplinary project combines scientific experimentation, art-making, evolutionary ecology and queer theory to posit the human body as a queer ecology. The sexuality, performativity and community of C. albicans within this ecology are explored through science, art and evolutionary and queer theories. Three aspects of queerness, i.e., sexuality, gender, and kinship, are woven through three aspects of evolutionary theory, i.e., sexual, natural and kin selection, to form heterotopic alliances.
KW - Candida albicans
KW - Queer ecology
KW - CandidaHomo
KW - Queer evolutionary biology
KW - Trans theory
KW - Microbial evolutionary biology
KW - Biological art
KW - Art/science
U2 - 10.26182/5ba46b3f5348c
DO - 10.26182/5ba46b3f5348c
M3 - Doctoral Thesis
ER -