ABSTRACT This introduction to the Queer Death Studies special issue explores an emerging transdisciplinary field of research. This field critically, (self-)reflexively and affirmatively investigates and challenges conventional normativities, assumptions, expectations, and regimes of truths that are brought to life and made evident by current planetary scale necropolitics and its framing of death, dying and mourning in the contemporary world. It is set against the background of traditional engagements with the question of death, often grounded in Western hegemonic and normative ideas of dying, dead and mourning subjects and bodies, on the one hand; and on the other contemporary discourses on human and nonhuman death and extinction, directly linked to the environmental crisis, capitalist and post/colonial extractivist necropolitics, material and symbolic violence, oppression and inequalities, and socio-economic, political and ecological unsustainabilities. By bringing together conceptual and analytical tools grounded in feminist materialisms and feminist theorising broadly speaking, queer theory and decolonial critique, the contributions in this special issue strive to advance queerfeminist methodologies and ontological, ethical and political understandings that critically and creatively attend to the problem of death, dying and mourning in the current environmental, cultural, and socio-political contexts.

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酷儿死亡研究：酷儿女性主义视角下的死亡、临终和哀悼

摘要 对酷儿死亡研究特刊的介绍探讨了一个新兴的跨学科研究领域。这个领域批判性地、（自我）反身地和肯定地调查和挑战传统的规范性、假设、期望和真理制度，这些真理被当前的行星规模的亡灵政治及其对当代死亡、垂死和哀悼的框架赋予生命并变得明显。世界。一方面，它是在对死亡问题进行传统处理的背景下进行的，一方面通常基于西方关于死亡、死亡和哀悼主体和身体的霸权和规范观念；以及关于人类和非人类死亡和灭绝的其他当代话语，与环境危机、资本主义和后/殖民榨取主义死灵政治直接相关，物质和象征性暴力、压迫和不平等，以及社会经济、政治和生态的不可持续性。通过将基于女权主义唯物主义和广义上的女权主义理论、酷儿理论和非殖民主义批判的概念和分析工具结合起来，本特刊中的贡献力求推动酷儿女权主义方法论和本体论、伦理学和政治理解，这些理解批判性地和创造性地解决了女权主义的问题。当前环境、文化和社会政治背景下的死亡、垂死和哀悼。