Contours Of Feminist Political Ecology

Author : Wendy Harcourt,Ana Agostino,Rebecca Elmhirst,Marlene Gómez,Panagiota Kotsila
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031209284

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Contours of Feminist Political Ecology by Wendy Harcourt,Ana Agostino,Rebecca Elmhirst,Marlene Gómez,Panagiota Kotsila Pdf

This open access book sets out the contours of feminist political ecology (FPE) as a major contribution to ongoing debates in the field. As Professor Lyla Mehta says in her Foreword, the book is "foregrounding multiple ways of knowing and being, thus enabling new conceptions of politics, justice and alternatives to dominant, capitalist development trajectories". In an innovative methodological twist, the edited book engages the reader in conversations that have emerged from the multi-sited and cross-generational dialogues of the Well-Being Ecology Gender cOmmunities (WEGO) network over the last four years. The conversations explore topics that range from climate change and extractivism, to body politics and health, degrowth, care and community well-being. The authors reflect on their collective learning process as they map out the new directions of FPE research and analysis. The chapters highlight WEGO transnational/transdisciplinary conversations with local communities, social movements and different academic spaces. The book foregrounds the ethics of doing feminist work inside and outside academe and brings to life the importance of doing reflexive research aware of situated historical and contemporary geographical contours of power.

Author : Dianne Rocheleau,Barbara Thomas-Slayter,Esther Wangari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135098407

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Feminist Political Ecology by Dianne Rocheleau,Barbara Thomas-Slayter,Esther Wangari Pdf

Feminist Political Ecology explores the gendered relations of ecologies, economies and politics in communities as diverse as the rubbertappers in the rainforests of Brazil to activist groups fighting racism in New York City. Women are often at the centre of these struggles, struggles which concern local knowledge, everyday practice, rights to resources, sustainable development, environmental quality, and social justice. The book bridges the gap between the academic and rural orientation of political ecology and the largely activist and urban focus of environmental justice movements.

Author : Christine Bauhardt,Wendy Harcourt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317301936

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Feminist Political Ecology and the Economics of Care by Christine Bauhardt,Wendy Harcourt Pdf

This book envisages a different form of our economies where care work and care-full relationships are central to social and cultural life. It sets out a feminist vision of a caring economy and asks what needs to change economically and ecologically in our conceptual approaches and our daily lives as we learn to care for each other and non-human others. Bringing together authors from 11 countries (also representing institutions from 8 countries), this edited collection sets out the challenges for gender aware economies based on an ethics of care for people and the environment in an original and engaging way. The book aims to break down the assumed inseparability of economic growth and social prosperity, and natural resource exploitation, while not romanticising social-material relations to nature. The authors explore diverse understandings of care through a range of analytical approaches, contexts and case studies and pays particular attention to the complicated nexus between re/productivity, nature, womanhood and care. It includes strong contributions on community economies, everyday practices of care, the politics of place and care of non-human others, as well as an engagement on concepts such as wealth, sustainability, food sovereignty, body politics, naturecultures and technoscience. Feminist Political Ecology and the Economics of Care is aimed at all those interested in what feminist theory and practice brings to today’s major political economic and environmental debates around sustainability, alternatives to economic development and gender power relations.

Author : Wendy Harcourt,Ingrid L. Nelson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783600892

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Practising Feminist Political Ecologies by Wendy Harcourt,Ingrid L. Nelson Pdf

Destined to transform its field, this volume features some of the most exciting feminist scholars and activists working within feminist political ecology, including Giovanna Di Chiro, Dianne Rocheleau, Catherine Walsh and Christa Wichterich. Offering a collective critique of the 'green economy', it features the latest analyses of the post-Rio+20 debates alongside a nuanced reading of the impact of the current ecological and economic crises on women as well as their communities and ecologies. This new, politically timely and engaging text puts feminist political ecology back on the map.

Author : Stephanie Buechler,Anne-Marie S. Hanson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317749837

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A Political Ecology of Women, Water and Global Environmental Change by Stephanie Buechler,Anne-Marie S. Hanson Pdf

This edited volume explores how a feminist political ecology framework can bring fresh insights to the study of rural and urban livelihoods dependent on vulnerable rivers, lakes, watersheds, wetlands and coastal environments. Bringing together political ecologists and feminist scholars from multiple disciplines, the book develops solution-oriented advances to theory, policy and planning to tackle the complexity of these global environmental changes. Using applied research on the contemporary management of groundwater, springs, rivers, lakes, watersheds and coastal wetlands in Central and South Asia, Northern, Central and Southern Africa, and South and North America, the authors draw on a variety of methodological perspectives and new theoretical approaches to demonstrate the importance of considering multiple layers of social difference as produced by and central to the effective governance and local management of water resources. This unique collection employs a unifying feminist political ecology framework that emphasizes the ways that gender interacts with other social and geographical locations of water resource users. In doing so, the book further questions the normative gender discourses that underlie policies and practices surrounding rural and urban water management and climate change, water pollution, large-scale development and dams, water for crop and livestock production and processing, resource knowledge and expertise, and critical livelihood studies. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of environmental studies, development studies, feminist and environmental geography, anthropology, sociology, environmental philosophy, public policy, planning, media studies, Latin American and other area studies, as well as women’s and gender studies.

Author : Bernadette P. Resurrección,Rebecca Elmhirst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351175166

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Negotiating Gender Expertise in Environment and Development by Bernadette P. Resurrección,Rebecca Elmhirst Pdf

This book casts a light on the daily struggles and achievements of ‘gender experts’ working in environment and development organisations, where they are charged with advancing gender equality and social equity and aligning this with visions of sustainable development. Developed through a series of conversations convened by the book’s editors with leading practitioners from research, advocacy and donor organisations, this text explores the ways gender professionals – specialists and experts, researchers, organizational focal points – deal with personal, power-laden realities associated with navigating gender in everyday practice. In turn, wider questions of epistemology and hierarchies of situated knowledges are examined, where gender analysis is brought into fields defined as largely techno-scientific, positivist and managerialist. Drawing on insights from feminist political ecology and feminist science, technology and society studies, the authors and their collaborators reveal and reflect upon strategies that serve to mute epistemological boundaries and enable small changes to be carved out that on occasions open up promising and alternative pathways for an equitable future. This book will be of great relevance to scholars and practitioners with an interest in environment and development, science and technology, and gender and women’s studies more broadly. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351175180, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Birte Siim
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031571442

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The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Citizenship by Birte Siim Pdf

Author : Jane Bennett
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780822391623

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Vibrant Matter by Jane Bennett Pdf

In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in events. Toward that end, she theorizes a “vital materiality” that runs through and across bodies, both human and nonhuman. Bennett explores how political analyses of public events might change were we to acknowledge that agency always emerges as the effect of ad hoc configurations of human and nonhuman forces. She suggests that recognizing that agency is distributed this way, and is not solely the province of humans, might spur the cultivation of a more responsible, ecologically sound politics: a politics less devoted to blaming and condemning individuals than to discerning the web of forces affecting situations and events. Bennett examines the political and theoretical implications of vital materialism through extended discussions of commonplace things and physical phenomena including stem cells, fish oils, electricity, metal, and trash. She reflects on the vital power of material formations such as landfills, which generate lively streams of chemicals, and omega-3 fatty acids, which can transform brain chemistry and mood. Along the way, she engages with the concepts and claims of Spinoza, Nietzsche, Thoreau, Darwin, Adorno, and Deleuze, disclosing a long history of thinking about vibrant matter in Western philosophy, including attempts by Kant, Bergson, and the embryologist Hans Driesch to name the “vital force” inherent in material forms. Bennett concludes by sketching the contours of a “green materialist” ecophilosophy.

Author : Wendy Harcourt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137382733

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The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Development by Wendy Harcourt Pdf

With original and engaging contributions, this Handbook confirms feminist scholarship in development studies as a vibrant research field. It reveals the diverse ways that feminist theory and practice inform and shape gender analysis and development policies, bridging generations of feminists from different institutions, disciplines and regions.

Author : Janet Biehl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Nature
ISBN : IND:30000026314611

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Finding Our Way by Janet Biehl Pdf

Finding Our Way is a well-written, clear introduction to a range of ecofeminist thought. In four essays, Biehl explores ecofeminism's intellectual affinities with social ecology and other schools of thought; critiques the increasing role of Goddess mythology within today's movement; spiritedly defends reason and naturalism against what she sees as a "counter-Enlightenment" mentality within feminist and academic circles; and mines the Western democratic tradition for its relevant political insights for feminists today.

Author : Susan Buckingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Ecofeminism
ISBN : LCCN:2014046670

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Gender and the Environment: Theorising gender -- environment relations: eco-feminism, ecological feminisms and feminist political ecology by Susan Buckingham Pdf

Author : Arturo Escobar,Michal Osterweil,Kriti Sharma
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350225985

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Relationality by Arturo Escobar,Michal Osterweil,Kriti Sharma Pdf

This important new book argues that at the root of the contemporary crisis of climate, energy, food, inequality, and meaning is a certain core presupposition that structures the ways in which we live, think, act and design: the assumption of dualism, or the fundamental separateness of things. The authors contend that the key to constructing livable worlds lies in the cultivation of ways of knowing and acting based on a profound awareness of the fundamental interdependence of everything that exists – what they refer to as relationality. This shift in paradigm is necessary for healing our bodies, ecosystems, cities, and the planet at large. The book follows two interwoven threads of argumentation: on the one hand, it explains and exemplifies the modes of operation and the dire consequences of non-relational living; on the other, it elucidates the nature of relationality and explores how it is embodied in transformative practices in multiple spheres of life. The authors provide an instructive account of the philosophical, scientific, social, and political sources of relational theory and action, with the aim of illuminating the transition from living within seemingly ineluctable 'toxic loops' of unrelational living (based on ontological dualism), to living within 'relational weaves' which we might co-create with multiple human and nonhuman others.

Author : Raymond L Bryant
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857936172

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The International Handbook of Political Ecology by Raymond L Bryant Pdf

The International Handbook of Political Ecology features chapters by leading scholars from around the world in a unique collection exploring the multi-disciplinary field of political ecology. This landmark volume canvasses key developments, topics, iss

Author : Carl Middleton,Rebecca Elmhirst,Supang Chantavanich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317645160

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Living with Floods in a Mobile Southeast Asia by Carl Middleton,Rebecca Elmhirst,Supang Chantavanich Pdf

This book contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between migration, vulnerability, resilience and social justice associated with flooding across diverse environmental, social and policy contexts in Southeast Asia. It challenges simple analyses of flooding as a singular driver of migration, and instead considers the ways in which floods figure in migration-based livelihoods and amongst already mobile populations. The book develops a conceptual framework based on a ‘mobile political ecology’ in which particular attention is paid to the multidimensionality, temporalities and geographies of vulnerability. Rather than simply emphasising the capacities (or lack thereof) of individuals and households, the focus is on identifying factors that instigate, manage and perpetuate vulnerable populations and places: these include the sociopolitical dynamics of floods, flood hazards and risky environments, migration and migrant-based livelihoods and the policy environments through which all of these take shape. The book is organised around a series of eight empirical urban and rural case studies from countries in Southeast Asia, where lives are marked by mobility and by floods associated with the region’s monsoonal climate. The concluding chapter synthesises the insights of the case studies, and suggests future policy directions. Together, the chapters highlight critical policy questions around the governance of migration, institutionalised disaster response strategies and broader development agendas.

Author : Richard A. Schroeder
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520216873

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Shady Practices by Richard A. Schroeder Pdf

"In this engaging and exceptionally well-crafted case study, Schroeder shows clearly how local dynamics intersect with wider processes. . . . Changes in cropping patterns, land rights, work routines, and gender politics were shaped by multiple struggles and interactions among women and men, landholders and land users, farmers, government officials, and representatives of various international agencies."--Sara Berry, author of No Condition Is Permanent