Motivated by thinking at the intersection of queer theory and environmental regulation, the co-authors of this piece pay attention to a stubborn persistence we negotiate when dealing with environmental studies and politics – namely, how environmental regulation functions through discrete timelines with linear notions of progress and through bounded and static conceptions of space. Given the linear and bounded logics of environmental regulation, our collective commentary endeavours to ‘queer’ the logics of environmental regulation and questions of the environment and nature more broadly. Our intent is to capture emerging discussions on ‘queering environmental regulations’. Incomplete and ever evolving, we offer thoughts and questions from our distinct entry points to grapple with the limits and possibilities of taking up queer theory and linear logics that permeate regulatory procedures on the land.
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