A Political Ecology of Desire

Abstract How does attention to exertion and absence of care illuminate possibilities for avoiding extinction amid global biodiversity declines? This article brings together feminist technoscience more-than-human theory on with Lacanian psychoanalytic theories anxiety desire. It so diagnose the threat anxieties consider their material political consequences impedances caring nonhuman life flourishing. The is developed through empirical case Arrojadoa marylanae, an endangered species cactus in Bahia, Brazil, as a ecology In bringing thought into conversation care, it considers how desire sits at heart yet may be thwarted by anxiety. Contending his own they became focused mountain destined mining, author excavates routes toward flourishing geographies: geographies care-full interspecies alliances composed against Anthropocenic thinking. concluding, urges greater work studies environmental change wider humanities.