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Pastoral complicity: Valerie Rohy, ‘Queer Complicity and the Colonial Anti-Pastoral’, Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture 1, 1-2, 2024

16Sep24

Excerpt: In fact, some queer subjects may be complicit with settler colonialism, just as they may profit from or fail to resist white supremacy, capitalism, or misogyny.3 This seemingly obvious reality is remarkably hard to keep in view, for doing so means abiding with discomfort, both the discomfort of responsibility and that of uncertainty, ambivalence, and contradiction. In pursuing that uncertain path, this reading furthers efforts within the environmental humanities to trace the ways in which the “natural” environment is socially constructed–including its structuration by literary forms such as the pastoral–and how these formations are, in turn, implicated in questions of Indigenous survival in the face of colonization, particularly in the global South.


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