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Chapter 30 - Ecology

from Part V - Afterlives and Future Fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2025

Sarah Parker
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Loughborough University
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Michael Field’s notion of ecology includes as fundamental components of their sense of being not only the external elements with which humans interact but also the gestures of curiosity, invitation, and emotional outreach themselves. In conceptualising the act of writing as part of this interspecies mutual realisation, they grappled with the conundrum of existing within their environment while seemingly being forced to render it from an external vantage point. This chapter proposes that they address the issue not simply through formal and other writerly innovations that depict their eco-relationality but also by encouraging a sense of their writing as an actual part of this network of emotional linkages and potentialities. Focusing primarily on their play, William Rufus, and a section of their diaries, this chapter explores that this is an undertaking less invested in reifying an eco-queer identity than in breaching the knowledge structure that scaffolds the concept of identity itself.

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  • Ecology
  • Edited by Sarah Parker, Loughborough University
  • Book: Michael Field in Context
  • Online publication: 03 October 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009382670.036
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  • Ecology
  • Edited by Sarah Parker, Loughborough University
  • Book: Michael Field in Context
  • Online publication: 03 October 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009382670.036
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  • Ecology
  • Edited by Sarah Parker, Loughborough University
  • Book: Michael Field in Context
  • Online publication: 03 October 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009382670.036
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