Practising feminist political ecologies : moving beyond the 'green economy' / Wendy Harcourt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harcourt, Wendy, 1959- author.

Nelson, Ingrid L., author.

Series:

Gender, Development and Environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecofeminism--Political aspects.

Ecofeminism.

Political ecology.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Other Title:

Moving beyond the 'green economy'

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Practicing Feminist Political Ecologies explores the latest thinking on feminist political ecology. Included is a collective critique of the "green economy," an analysis of the post-Rio+20 UN conference debates, and a nuanced study of the impact that the current ecological and economic crisis will have on a diverse range of women and their communities. By including such well-known contributors as Dianne Rocheleau, Catherine Walsh, and Christa Wichterich, along with an upcoming generation of new activist scholars, it fills the gap in the literature on the relationship between the environment and gender

Contents:

Front Cover

About the Editors

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Are We 'Green' Yet? and the Violence of Asking Such a Question

Encountering Shared Histories

Where We Situate the Book

Connecting Insights, Contentions and Conversations

Staying with the Troubles

Trouble 1: Challenging Neoliberal Logic and Narrow Analyses of Neoliberalism

Trouble 2: Sustaining Livelihoods, Engaging Technologies and Queering Ecologies

Trouble 3: Appropriation and Naming and Claiming FPE

Trouble 4: Naturecultures, Response-able Encounters and Making Coalitions

Conclusion

Notes

References

Section One: Positioning Feminist Political Ecology

1: A Situated View of Feminist Political Ecology from My Networks, Roots and Territories

Introduction

Early Seeds of FPE

Another Slice of Space and Time: Kenya 1983-93

FPE Emerging in Place

The Paradox of FPE and My Place in It

The Decolonial Turn

2: Contesting Green Growth, Connecting Care, Commons and Enough

Feminist Political Ecology Meets Feminist Political Economics

Green Growth and the Economization of Nature

Inclusive Liberalism and Value Creation

Inclusion and Neoliberal Empowerment

Othering and Exclusion

Great Transformation or Small Transitions

A European Perspective

Labour and the Logic of Care

Commoning and Commons

Sufficiency and the Culture of Enough

Conclusions: Connecting Care, Commons and Enough

3: Life, Nature and Gender Otherwise: Feminist Reflections and Provocations from the Andes

Openings

Nature, Gender and the Modern/Colonial/Imperial Matrices of Power

(En)genderings and Naturings

Transcendental Shifts, Transformative Horizons and (En)gendering(s) of the Otherwise.

Challenges and Contradictions

Of Relationalities, Feminisms and Pluri-Interversalizations

Moments, Movements and Openings That Help Conclude

Section Two: Rethinking Feminist Political Ecology

4: Feminist Political Ecology and the (Un)making of 'Heroes': Encounters in Mozambique

Reading and Teaching Post-Colonial Critiques of 'Great White Saviours'

Responding to Persistent Desires for Heroes

Research in Practice

Heroic Anxieties

Concluding Thoughts

5: Hegemonic Waters and Rethinking Natures Otherwise

Introduction: Lived Ecologies and Enlivened Feminist Political Ecologies

Neoliberalization of Nature, and Working Towards Counter-Hegemonies

FPE as a Critical Intellectual-Political Site to Think Through 'Alternatives'

Building Post-Colonial, Decolonial and Feminist-Ecological-Inspired Alternatives to Neoliberalized Environmental Governance

Note

6: Challenging the Romance with Resilience: Communities, Scale and Climate Change

Scale

Resilience: The New Holy Grail of Climate Change Adaptation

Resilience in Nepal and Scotland

'It's How We Do Things': Community in Scotland

The Experts Taught Us All We Know: Nepal

Section Three: Living Feminist Political Ecology

7: A New Spelling of Sustainability: Engaging Feminist-Environmental Justice Theory and Practice

Introduction: A Socio-Ecological Genealogy

Environmental Justice: An Ecological Politics of Articulation

Seres Puentes: Bridge-Building as Feminist Ecological Politics.

Practising Naturecultures and Feminist Ecocosmopolitics in Environmental Studies

A Course on Urban Ecology

A Course on Sustainable Community Action

Epilogue: Storms and Peace

8: The Slips and Slides of Trying to Live Feminist Political Ecology

Ontological Politics

From Where Do I Speak?

Feminist Environmental Activism in Australia

Global Environmental Activism at the UN

Collusions and Delusions

Labours of Love in Bolsena, Italy

Place-Based Globalism

Further Wanderings: Ecofeminism

Will We Be Able to Love Them?

9: Knowledge About, Knowledge With: Dilemmas of Researching Lives, Nature and Genders Otherwise

'Ustedes Somos Nosotras': Our Commitments

The Power of Words

Research Practices to Transform Ecologically Violent Contexts

On Bodies, Violence and Technologies

Social Locations and Research

10: World-Wise Otherwise Stories for Our Endtimes: Converations on Queer Ecologies

Introductions

Contributors

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781350221970

135022197X

9781783600908

178360090X

9781783600878

178360087X

OCLC:

908671269