Professor Nina Lykke on queer & feminist death studies; posthumanism; the more than human; necropolitics; philosophy, atheism & death; vibrant death; mourning, & ongoing relationships with the dead
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What's the episode about?
In this episode, hear Professor Nina Lykke on queer and feminist death studies; posthumanism; the more than human; necropolitics; philosophy, atheism and
death; vibrant death; mourning, and ongoing relationships with the dead
Who is Nina?
Nina Lykke, Dr. Phil., Professor Emerita, Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden, and Adjunct Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Nina participated in the building of Feminist Studies in Scandinavia and Europe more broadly for many years.
She is also a poet and writer, and co-founder, in 2016, of the international Network for Queer Death Studies.
Current research interests: queering of cancer,
death, and mourning in posthuman, queerfemme, new-materialist, decolonial, eco-critical and spiritual-material perspectives; feminist and femme-inist theory; intersectional methodologies; autophenomenography; poetic writing;
eco-critical storytelling.
She has recently published articles in journals such as Australian Feminist Studies; NORA; Catalyst; Environmental Humanities; Social Identities; Kerb Journal; Lambda Nordica; Forum+; Women, Gender and Research and Somatechnics. She is also author of numerous monographs such as Cosmodolphins (2000), Feminist Studies (2010), Vibrant Death (2022) and Feminist Reconfigurings of Alien
Encounters (2024, with K.Aglert and L.Henrksen).
How do I cite the episode in my research and reading lists?
To cite this episode, you can use the
following citation:
Lykke, N. (2024) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 1 August 2024. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.26422072
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