Seventh Lisbon Architecture Triennale

Can one give an account of the upheavals of human cohabitation in the Anthropocene without describing what has gone before? Without the shards of its long history in empire, extraction, and the multiple ways of administering violence?

Anne McClintock is the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. Her interdisciplinary and transnational work—both scholarly and creative—explores the intersections between race, gender and sexualities; imperialism and globalsation; visual culture and mass media; sexual and gender violence; and environmentalism and animal studies. Her work includes ‘Imperial Leather. Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest’; ‘Dangerous Liaisons. Gender, Nation and Postcolonial Perspectives' (co-edited); short biographies on Simone de Beauvoir, and Olive Schreiner; edited volumes ‘Sex Workers and Sex Work’, and ‘Race and Queer Sexualities’ (co-edited), as well as creative non-fiction and photographic essays. Her current book ‘Unquiet Ghosts. From the Forever War to Climate Chaos’ (Duke University Trade Series) covers issues of invasive colonialism and indigeneity, photography, climate chaos, mass displacements of people, other species and land, rising waters, militarisation and carceral modernity. Anne McClintock’s work has been translated into 16 languages.