Cancer Ecologies

Nina Lykke, Emerita-Professor, Dr. Phil., Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden, and Honorary Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark. She 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 the International Network for Queer Death Studies. Her current research focuses on posthuman eco-poetics, the queering of cancer, death, and mourning in posthuman, queerfemme-inist, new-materialist, decolonial, eco-critical and spiritual-material perspectives. Author and co-author of numerous monographs such as Cosmodolphins (2000), Feminist Studies (2010), Vibrant Death (2022), Feminist Reconfigurings of Alien Encounters (2024), and co-editor of the forthcoming Routledge International Handbook of Queer Death Studies.Camila Marambio, Co-director of Ecological Culture/Curator of New Perspectives at Para la Naturaleza, Borikén (Puerto Rico). Curated the Chilean Pavilion at the 59th Venice Art Biennale (2022). Completed a postdoc at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, as part of the Seedbox: An Environmental Humanities Collaboratory (2021). Holds a PhD in Curatorial Practice from Monash University, Australia (2019). Founder of the nomadic research practice Ensayos (2010–2024) on the archipelago of Karokynka/Tierra del Fuego, at the southernmost tip of South America. Published in Third Text, Terremoto, Australian Feminist Studies, Discipline, The River Rail, Kerb Journal, among others. Co-authored Slow Down Fast, A Toda Raja with Cecilia Vicuña (2019) and Cancer Ecologies with Nina Lykke (2025).

• Prologue: The Cancer, The Peatmoss and the Diatom - A Queer Femme Tale Chapter 1. Queer Companions Interrupter I. The Blue Rabbit, and Born from a Mountain Chapter 2. Cancer Ecologies Interrupter II. A Liver Tumor's Story Chapter 3. Cancer as TalentInterrupter III. Brotherhood Chapter 4. A Compassionate Companion's Cancer Contemplations Interrupter IV. Dreamscapes - A Triptych Chapter 5. The Danger of Being (Me) Model Interrupter V. Cave Interview Chapter 6. My Body is a BogInterrupter VI. Summonings Chapter 7. Thinking about Evolution and Ecology from the Perspective of Cancer Cells Interrupter VII. Notes from my Seaside Diary Chapter 8. Loving Diatoms - Queering Cancer Interrupter VIII. The Weird Recording Chapter 9. A Queer Femme Eco-Ethics of Softness Epilogue: Softness - A Shared Meditation in Twinned Voices ReferencesIndex