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Carol J. Adams - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Ecofeminism and the Eating of Animals1
Hypatia, 1991Co-Authors: Carol J. AdamsAbstract:In this essay, I will argue that contemporary ecofeminist discourse, while potentially adequate to deal with the issue of animals, is now inadequate because it fails to give consistent conceptual place to the domination of animals as a significant aspect of the domination of nature. I will examine six answers ecofeminists could give for not including animals explicitly in ecofeminist analyses and show how a persistent patriarchal ideology regarding animals as instruments has kept the experience of animals from being fully incorporated within Ecofeminism.2
Susan Buckingham - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Ecofeminism in the twenty first century
The Geographical Journal, 2004Co-Authors: Susan BuckinghamAbstract:This paper considers the influence of Ecofeminism on policy concerning gender (in)equality and the environment during the past 20 years. It reviews the broad contours of the ecofeminist debate before focusing on the social construction interpretation of women's relationship with the environment. It will argue that there have been substantial policy shifts in Europe and the UK in both the environmental and equalities fields, and that this is in part a result of lobbying at a range of scales by groups informed by ecofeminist debates. Nevertheless, the paper cautions that these shifts are largely incremental and operate within existing structures, which inevitably limit their capacity to create change. As policy addresses some of the concerns highlighted by Ecofeminism, academic discourse and grass roots activity have been moving on to address other issues, and the paper concludes with a brief consideration of contemporary trajectories of Ecofeminism and campaigning on issues that link women's, feminist and environment concerns.
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Ecofeminism in the twenty‐first century
The Geographical Journal, 2004Co-Authors: Susan BuckinghamAbstract:This paper considers the influence of Ecofeminism on policy concerning gender (in)equality and the environment during the past 20 years. It reviews the broad contours of the ecofeminist debate before focusing on the social construction interpretation of women's relationship with the environment. It will argue that there have been substantial policy shifts in Europe and the UK in both the environmental and equalities fields, and that this is in part a result of lobbying at a range of scales by groups informed by ecofeminist debates. Nevertheless, the paper cautions that these shifts are largely incremental and operate within existing structures, which inevitably limit their capacity to create change. As policy addresses some of the concerns highlighted by Ecofeminism, academic discourse and grass roots activity have been moving on to address other issues, and the paper concludes with a brief consideration of contemporary trajectories of Ecofeminism and campaigning on issues that link women's, feminist and environment concerns.
Youngsuk Chae - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Postcolonial Ecofeminism in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2015Co-Authors: Youngsuk ChaeAbstract:This article foregrounds Arundhati Roy’s postcolonial ecofeminist perspective in her novel The God of Small Things (1997). Roy has become recognized as an environmental and political activist through her criticism of postcolonial India’s maldevelopment. Although she is cynical about state-sponsored development projects, her criticism is focused not on the idea of development per se, but on the hierarchy of dualisms that legitimizes the exploitation of nature by the human, of women by men and of the oppressed by the powerful. The God of Small Things interrogates the ways such hierarchies operate through mechanisms such as patriarchical ideology and an apparently rational economic logic. Roy’s critique of environmental exploitation in postcolonial India reveals the interconnectedness of ecological deterioration and oppression based on gender, class and race. Such exploitation calls for an examination of postcolonial environment issues from an ecofeminist viewpoint. The convergence of postcolonialism with Ecofeminism – what is here called postcolonial Ecofeminism – is exemplified in Roy’s novel.
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postcolonial Ecofeminism in arundhati roy s the god of small things
Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2015Co-Authors: Youngsuk ChaeAbstract:This article foregrounds Arundhati Roy’s postcolonial ecofeminist perspective in her novel The God of Small Things (1997). Roy has become recognized as an environmental and political activist through her criticism of postcolonial India’s maldevelopment. Although she is cynical about state-sponsored development projects, her criticism is focused not on the idea of development per se, but on the hierarchy of dualisms that legitimizes the exploitation of nature by the human, of women by men and of the oppressed by the powerful. The God of Small Things interrogates the ways such hierarchies operate through mechanisms such as patriarchical ideology and an apparently rational economic logic. Roy’s critique of environmental exploitation in postcolonial India reveals the interconnectedness of ecological deterioration and oppression based on gender, class and race. Such exploitation calls for an examination of postcolonial environment issues from an ecofeminist viewpoint. The convergence of postcolonialism with Ecofeminism – what is here called postcolonial Ecofeminism – is exemplified in Roy’s novel.
Greta Gaard - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Ecofeminism revisited rejecting essentialism and re placing species in a material feminist environmentalism
Feminist Formations, 2011Co-Authors: Greta GaardAbstract:Formulated in the 1980s and gaining prominence in the early 1990s, by the end of that decade Ecofeminism was critiqued as essentialist and effectively discarded. Fearing their scholarship would be contaminated by association with the term "Ecofeminism," feminists working on the intersections of feminism and environmentalism thought it better to rename their approach. Thirty years later, current developments in allegedly new fields such as animal studies and naturalized epistemology are "discovering" theoretical perspectives on interspecies relations and standpoint theory that were developed by feminists and ecofeminists decades ago. What have we lost by jettisoning these earlier feminist and ecofeminist bodies of knowledge? Are there features of Ecofeminism that can helpfully be retrieved, restoring an intellectual and activist history, and enriching current theorizing and activisms? By examining the historical foundations of Ecofeminism from the 1980s onward, this article uncovers the roots of the antifeminist backlash against Ecofeminism in the 1990s, peeling back the layers of feminist and environmentalist resistance to Ecofeminism's analyses of the connections among racism, sexism, classism, colonialism, speciesism, and the environment. Recuperating ecofeminist insights of the past thirty years provides feminist foundations for current liberatory theories and activisms.
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Vegetarian Ecofeminism: A Review Essay
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 2002Co-Authors: Greta GaardAbstract:Although the roots of Ecofeminism can be located in the work of women gardeners, outdoor enthusiasts, environmental writers, botanists, scientists, animal welfare activists, and abolitionists over the past two centuries, Ecofeminism's first articulation in the 1980s was shaped by the convergence of the peace, antinuclear, and feminist movements. In the past two decades Ecofeminism has developed so rapidly that the time for a broad review of it has already passed; even recent taxonomies do not adequately describe its internal variations. For these reasons, I have chosen to trace the branch of Ecofeminism that has been the subject of most disagreement by feminists, ecofeminists, and environmentalists and is the least understood. This misunderstanding (and the subsequent misrepresentation) of vegetarian Ecofeminism must be addressed, I will argue, because this branch of Ecofeminism is the logical outgrowth of both feminism and Ecofeminism. For if Ecofeminism can be seen as the offspring of feminism, then vegetarian Ecofeminism is surely feminism's third generation. Since its inception Ecofeminism has had a contentious relationship with the idea of animal liberation. While some ecofeminists have remained silent on the topic of animals, others have emphasized the oppression of nonhuman animals (speciesism) as implicit within an ecofeminist analysis, arguing that speciesism functions like and is inherently linked to racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism, and naturism. Outside of Ecofeminism some feminists have been particularly vocal in their opposition to giving equal moral consideration to the interests or the rights of nonhuman animals. To vegetarian ecofeminists such opposition runs counter to the fundamental aims of feminism. As Lynda Birke explains, "One of the strengths of feminist thought is that it is never 'just' about women: it is a critical discourse that tends to ask uncomfortable questions about everything."' Vegetarian Ecofeminism puts into action the feminist insight that "the personal is political" and examines the political contexts of dietary choices as well as strategic and operational choices in science and economics. What prevents some feminists and ecofeminists from politicizing
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ecofeminist literary criticism theory interpretation pedagogy
Modern Language Review, 2000Co-Authors: Greta Gaard, Patrick D MurphyAbstract:A diverse anthology that explores both how Ecofeminism can enrich literary criticism and how literary criticism can contribute to ecofeminist theory and activism
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Toward a Queer Ecofeminism
Hypatia, 1997Co-Authors: Greta GaardAbstract:Although many ecofeminists acknowledge heterosexism as a problem, a systematic exploration of the potential intersections of ecofeminist and queer theories has yet to be made. By interrogating social constructions of the “natural,” the various uses of Christianity as a logic of domination, and the rhetoric of colonialism, this essay finds those theoretical intersections and argues for the importance of developing a queer Ecofeminism.
Ian Werkheiser - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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domination and consumption an examination of veganism anarchism and Ecofeminism
Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture, 2013Co-Authors: Ian WerkheiserAbstract:Anarchism provides a useful set of theoretical tools for understanding and resisting our culture’s treatment of non-human animals. However, some points of disagreement exist in anarchist discourse, such as the question of veganism. In this paper I will use the debate around veganism as a way of exploring the anarchist discourse on non-human animals, how that discourse can benefit more mainstream work on non-human animals, and how work coming out of mainstream environmental discourse, in particular the ecofeminist work of Val Plumwood, can likewise benefit anarchist thought. Ultimately I will show that anarchism and some of the more radical strains of environmental philosophy such as Ecofeminism can greatly contribute to each other and to Critical Animal Studies. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}
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domination and consumption an examination of veganism anarchism and Ecofeminism
Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture, 2013Co-Authors: Ian WerkheiserAbstract:Anarchism provides a useful set of theoretical tools for understanding and resisting our culture’s treatment of non-human animals. However, some points of disagreement exist in anarchist discourse, such as the question of veganism. In this paper I will use the debate around veganism as a way of exploring the anarchist discourse on non-human animals, how that discourse can benefit more mainstream work on non-human animals, and how work coming out of mainstream environmental discourse, in particular the ecofeminist work of Val Plumwood, can likewise benefit anarchist thought. Ultimately I will show that anarchism and some of the more radical strains of environmental philosophy such as Ecofeminism can greatly contribute to each other and to Critical Animal Studies. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}
