Troubling times: Climate crisis, future geographies and queer theory

Drawing together queer theories and geographies of the future, this article explores how sexual politics condition climate futures. Unlike in geographical research on climate futures, where the future is often realized so that it may be contained and thus governed, queer temporalities are unpredictable and antagonistic, often escaping attempts at capture. Queer theories reorient us then to futures full of risk, chance and uncertainty. They gesture to relations not typically studied in the existing geographical research on climate futures. Focused on these alternative relations, I show that planetary imaginaries are tied up in the policing of intimacies and illustrate that queer environmental ethics extend well beyond attempts to the save the future.