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Implications of ecofeminism for political theory

Author : Stefanie Kessler
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783640182206

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Implications of ecofeminism for political theory by Stefanie Kessler Pdf

Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Women Studies / Gender Studies, grade: A, University of Auckland, course: Political Theory of the Environment, 22 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Feminism and Environmentalism are both recent phenomens in political theory. They both challenge mainstream politics as movements and as critical concepts. Thus they have in common that they are in themselves political and question the establishment. As concepts they can be applied in political theory to a variation of ideologies and interrupt the political scene. Andrew Dobson and Robyn Eckersley argue that there is a rising interest of the mainstream in environmental thoughts as they can contribute to major political concepts like democracy, justice and others. Herein they see a parallel to feminist theory which has a major impact on a broad range of aspects in political theory (Dobson/Eckersley. 2006: 3). In ecofeminism both concepts merge together. Val Plumwood calls ecofeminism the 'hybrid area' „which aims at developing a feminism that is ecological and an ecology that is feminist“ (Plumwood. 2006: 51). Thus the question is how both concepts merge within ecofeminism and how they can contribute to each other and have a larger impact on political theory in general. As part of this essay I will examine the basic arguments of ecofeminism and its implications for both concepts as well as on political theory in general. I will begin with a definition of the major terms: environmentalism/ecologism, feminism and ecofeminism. [...]

The Politics of Nature

Author : Andrew Dobson,Paul Lucardie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781134803019

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The Politics of Nature by Andrew Dobson,Paul Lucardie Pdf

A balanced and comprehensive survey of current green political ideas - their varying responses to fundamental problems in political theory and their relationships with other ideological traditions.

Ecofeminist Natures

Author : Noel Sturgeon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317959007

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Ecofeminist Natures by Noel Sturgeon Pdf

Examining the development of ecofeminism from the 1980s antimilitarist movement to an internationalist ecofeminism in the 1990s, Sturgeon explores the ecofeminist notions of gender, race, and nature. She moves from detailed historical investigations of important manifestations of US ecofeminism to a broad analysis of international environmental politics.

Political Theory and the Environment

Author : Matthew Humphrey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135282172

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Political Theory and the Environment by Matthew Humphrey Pdf

This collection offers a sympathetic but critical perspective on contemporary ecological political theory, and gives proposals for a reorientation of some of its key aspects.

Finding Our Way

Author : Janet Biehl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,7 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.

Contemporary Perspectives on Ecofeminism

Author : Mary Phillips,Nick Rumens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317697213

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Contemporary Perspectives on Ecofeminism by Mary Phillips,Nick Rumens Pdf

Why is ecofeminism still needed to address the environmental emergencies and challenges of our times? Ecofeminism has a chequered history in terms of its popularity and its perceived value in conceptualizing the relationship between gender and nature as well as feeding forms of activism that aim to confront the environmental challenges of the moment. This book provides a much-needed comprehensive overview of the relevance and value of using eco-feminist theories. It gives a broad coverage of traditional and emerging eco-feminist theories and explores, across a range of chapters, their various contributions and uniquely spans various strands of ecofeminist thinking. The origins of influential eco-feminist theories are discussed including key themes and some of its leading figures (contributors include Erika Cudworth, Greta Gaard, Trish Glazebrook and Niamh Moore), and outlines its influence on how scholars might come to a more generative understanding of the natural environment. The book examines eco-feminism’s potential contribution for advancing current discussions and research on the relationships between the humans and more than humans that share our world. This timely volume makes a distinctive scholarly contribution and is a valuable resources for students and academics in the fields of environmentalism, political ecology, sustainability and nature resource management.

Ecofeminism and Climate Change Mitigation

Author : Anika Bohrmann
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783346089267

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Ecofeminism and Climate Change Mitigation by Anika Bohrmann Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Politics - Topic: International development, grade: 1,3, University of Frankfurt (Main), language: English, abstract: The following paper elaborates the unequal affectedness of men and women by anthropogenic climate change and shows how specific male and female consumer- and behavioral patterns change the outcome of assigning individual shares of the climate catastrophe. In a preliminary step, gender-neutral conventional climate change mitigation principles will be presented as developed by Darrel Moellendorf, professor of International Political Theory and Philosophy at Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, in his essay “Treaty Norms and Climate Change Mitigation” (2009). Afterwards, the central characteristics of the ecofeminist movement will be introduced and furthermore discussed how attempts in climate change mitigation could look like out of a gender-egalitarian perspective. In a third step, a try will be made to reconcile Moellendorfs principles and ecofeminist outlooks and to draft a gender-inclusive approach to facing environmental degradation. Finally, I will show that any climate change mitigation strategy that ignores social inequalities or structural violence repercussions is incomprehensive and cannot count as a fair and anti-hegemonic proceeding. It recently has been acknowledged that women and men in both the global North and South contribute unequally to the negative impact of anthropogenic climate change. Not only does the Western populations’ share of global harmful CO2 emissions amount to 80% of the overall emissions, but there is also strong evidence that women and men’s energy consumption and consumer behavior differ considerably when it comes to determining individual per capita emissions. Furthermore, women are often attributed greater burdens and responsibilities in mitigating climate change although women and children are those who suffer the most from it.

Ecofeminism as Politics

Author : Ariel Salleh
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786990426

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Ecofeminism as Politics by Ariel Salleh Pdf

Ecofeminism as Politics is now a classic, being the first work to offer a joined-up framework for green, socialist, feminist and postcolonial thinking, showing how these have been held back by conceptual confusions over gender. Originally published in 1997, it argues that ecofeminism reaches beyond contemporary social movement ideologies and practices, by prefiguring a political synthesis of four-revolutions-in-one: ecology is feminism is socialism is postcolonial struggle. Ariel Salleh addresses discourses on class, science, the body, culture and nature, and her innovative reading of Marx converges the philosophy of internal relations with the organic materiality of everyday life. This new edition features forewords by Indian ecofeminist Vandana Shiva and US philosopher John Clark, a new introduction, and a recent conversation between Salleh and younger scholar activists.

Feminist Political Ecology and the Economics of Care

Author : Christine Bauhardt,Wendy Harcourt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,9 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.

Ecofeminism and Globalization

Author : Heather Eaton,Lois Ann Lorentzen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0742526984

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Ecofeminism and Globalization by Heather Eaton,Lois Ann Lorentzen Pdf

Discusses ecofeminism in the context of the social, political and ecological consequences of globalization. The book includes case studies, essays, theoretical works, and articles on ecofeminist movements from many of the world's regions including Taiwan, Mexico, Kenya, Chile, India, Brazil, Canada, England and the United States.

Ecofeminism

Author : Greta Gaard
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993-01-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780877229896

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Ecofeminism by Greta Gaard Pdf

Drawing on the insights of ecology, feminism, and socialism, ecofeminism's basic premise is that the ideology that authorizes oppression based on race, class, gender, sexuality, physical abilities, and species is the same ideology that sanctions the oppression of nature. In this collection of essays, feminist scholars and activists discuss the relationships among human begins, the natural environment, and nonhuman animals. They reject the nature/culture dualism of patriarchal thought and locate animals and humans within nature. The goal of these twelve articles is to contribute to the evolving dialogue among feminists, ecofeminists, animal liberationists, deep ecologists, and social ecologists in an effort to create a sustainable lifestyle for all inhabitants of the earth. Among the issues addressed are the conflicts between Green politics and ecofeminism, various applications of ecofeminist theory, the relationship of animal liberation to ecofeminism, harmful implications of the romanticized woman-nature association in Western culture, and cultural limitations of ecofeminism. In the series Ethics and Action, edited by Tom Regan.

Ecofeminism, Second Edition

Author : Carol J. Adams,Lori Gruen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501380792

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Ecofeminism, Second Edition by Carol J. Adams,Lori Gruen Pdf

This new edition of Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth begins with an historical, grounding overview that situates ecofeminist theory and activism within the larger field of ecocriticism and provides a timeline for important publications and events. Throughout the book, authors engage with intersections of gender, sexuality, gender expression, race, disability, and species to address the various ways that sexism, heteronormativity, racism, colonialism, and ableism are informed by and support animal oppression. This collection is broken down into three separate sections: -Affect includes contributions from leading theorists and activists on how our emotions and embodiment can and must inform our relationships with the more-than-human world -Context explores the complexities of appreciating difference and the possibilities of living less violently -Climate, new to the second edition, provides an overview of our climate crisis as well as the climate for critical discussion and debate about ecofeminist ideas and actions Drawing on animal studies, environmental studies, feminist/gender studies, and practical ethics, the ecofeminist contributors to this volume stress the need to move beyond binaries and attend to context over universal judgments; spotlight the importance of care as well as justice, emotion as well as reason; and work to undo the logic of domination and its material implications.

Developing Ecofeminist Theory

Author : E. Cudworth
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230509276

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Developing Ecofeminist Theory by E. Cudworth Pdf

An original exploration of how the relationship between society and 'nature' is conceptualized, focusing on theories of social exclusion and difference. A comprehensive overview of feminist and environmental theories of society-environment relations, considering the range of theoretical and political influences on such theorizing such as socialist and Marxist theory amongst others and the turn to post structuralism and postmodernism within the social sciences. Cudworth also develops her own theoretical account for the interrelations between forms of social domination and contributes to important debates with sociology, social theory, feminist theory and environmentalism.

The Good-natured Feminist

Author : Catriona Sandilands
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816630968

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The Good-natured Feminist by Catriona Sandilands Pdf

Heroic mothers defending home and hearth against a nature deformed by multinationalist corporate practice: this may be a compelling story, but it is not necessarily the source of valid feminist or ecological critique. What's missing is the democratic element, an insistence on bringing to public debate all the relations of gender and nature that such a view takes for granted. This book aims to situate a commitment to theory and politics -- that is, to democratic practice -- at the center of ecofeminism and, thus, to move toward an ecofeminism that is truly both feminist and ecological. The Good-Natured Feminist inaugurates a sustained conversation between ecofeminism and recent writings in feminist postmodernism and radical democracy. Starting with the assumption that ecofeminism is a body of democratic theory, the book tells how the movement originated in debates about "nature" in North American radical feminisms, how it then became entangled with identity politics, and how it now seeks to include nature in democratic conversation and, especially, to politicize relations between gender and nature in both theoretical and activist milieus.

Ecological Politics

Author : Greta Gaard
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998-05-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781566395700

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Ecological Politics by Greta Gaard Pdf

AN ILLUMINATING ACCOUNT OF TWO INTERCONNECTED SOCIAL MOVEMENTS FROM THEIR GRASSROOTS ORIGINS THROUGH THE 1996 GREEN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN Both ecofeminism and Green politics have played an important role in the radical environmental movement. As a theory and a movement bringing together feminism, environmentalism, socialism, and peace activism, ecofeminism began taking shape in the U.S. by 1980. Four years later, many ecofeminists participated in founding and developing the U.S. Green movement. Where are these movements today? A member of both movements, Greta Gaard bases her analysis on personal experience as well as extensive secondary sources and interviews with key theorists, activists, and speakers across the United States. She describes the paths -- environmental causes, the feminist peace movement, the feminist spirituality movement, the animal liberation movement, and the anti-toxics movement, as well as experiences of interconnectedness -- that have led women (and a few men) to articulate an ecofeminist perspective. The book illustrates the development of the Greens from a national movement into a political party and defines the factions -- the Left Greens, the Youth Greens, and the Green Politics Network -- that underlay the debates during Ralph Nader's 1996 presidential campaign. She sees the history of these three groups as stages in the transition from a leftist and sometimes anarchist focus to an emphasis on electoral political action that places the Green movement squarely within the pattern of other social movements around the world. Gaard's analysis illuminates the nature and direction of each of these important movements and the pressures and conflictsexperienced by all social movements at the end of the twentieth century.