In/Fertile Environments: Making Kin in a Time of Crisis

With Heather McMullen

This project engages with the most pressing problem of our time: the environmental crisis. Drawing on the environmental reproductive justice framework, we ask what kinds of transformations in kinship and reproduction, and what future imaginaries of relationality are thinkable and possible, in the context of environmental crisis. We approach this problem through a methodology that is based in a critique of the political, economic and social ideologies that have created this crisis, whilst also seeking to highlight creative and constructive approaches to the very real existential threats it poses to all life. Following the principles of reproductive justice and decolonial scholarship, we approach intersections between reproduction and the environment through people’s lived experiences and grassroots activism.