Contours of Feminist Political Ecology

ISBN-13: 9783031209307 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 245 str.

Wendy Harcourt; Ana Agostino; Rebecca Elmhirst

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Sketching out the contours.- 2. Confronting the coloniality of climate: Weaving reflections on extractivism through feminist political ecology.- 3. Extracting Us: Co-curating creative responses to extractivism through a feminist political ecology praxis.- 4. Ouch! Eew! Blech! A trialogue on porous technologies, places and embodiments.- 5. Aging and feminist political ecology.- 6. More-than-human co-becomings: The interdependencies of water, embodied subjectivities and ethics.- 7. Meanings and practices of care in feminist political ecology: An intergenerational conversation with Khayaat Fakier and Wendy Harcourt.- 8. Caring communities for radical change: What can feminist political ecology bring to degrowth?.- 9. Perspectives on decoloniality for feminist political ecology.- 10. Emotions and conflict: Debating population in and beyond feminist political ecology.- 11. La Mercadita 2050: Telling tomorrows of a market after oil.- 12. The territory of our own body: A conversation on urban environments in the Andes. 

 

O autorze

Wendy Harcourt is Professor of Gender, Diversity and Sustainable Development at the International Institute of Social Studies of the Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Hague, The Netherlands and was Coordinator of the WEGO Innovative Training Network (2018-2022).

Ana Agostino is Lecturer at the Faculty of Culture at the University CLAEH, Uruguay, and at FLACSO.

Rebecca Elmhirst is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Brighton, UK.

Marlene Gómez is PhD candidate of the WEGO Innovative Training Network at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Panagiota Kotsila is ‘Juan de la Cierva’ Fellow at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, and Coordinator of the Political Ecology research line at the Barcelona lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ). 

Blurb

This open access book sets out the contours of feminist political ecology (FPE) as a major contribution to ongoing debates in the field. 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.

Wendy Harcourt is Professor of Gender, Diversity and Sustainable Development at the International Institute of Social Studies of the Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Hague, The Netherlands and was Coordinator of the WEGO Innovative Training Network (2018-2022).

Ana Agostino is Lecturer at the Faculty of Culture at the University CLAEH, Uruguay, and at FLACSO.

Rebecca Elmhirst is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Brighton, UK.

Marlene Gómez is PhD candidate of the WEGO Innovative Training Network at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Panagiota Kotsila is ‘Juan de la Cierva’ Fellow at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, and Coordinator of the Political Ecology research line at the Barcelona lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ).