From ‘cli-fi’ to critical ecofeminism

Gaard, Greta

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“…In making the claim that women are closer to nature, however, some (but by no means most) ecofeminists have problematically upheld gendered concepts of nature that fail to overcome the dualistic thinking underlying the logic of domination (Gaard 2011). Ecofeminism has since become more critical, intersectional, materialist, and posthumanist (Alaimo and Hekman 2008;Gaard 2017). Prominent recent works include Alaimo (2010), Braidotti (2013), Zylinska (2014), Haraway (2016), Keller (2017) and Puis de la Bellacasa (2017).…”

Section: Relational Approaches To Ethicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a relational paradigm in sustainability research, practice, and education

Walsh

Böhme

Wamsler

2020

Ambio

125

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Relational thinking has recently gained increasing prominence across academic disciplines in an attempt to understand complex phenomena in terms of constitutive processes and relations. Interdisciplinary fields of study, such as science and technology studies (STS), the environmental humanities, and the posthumanities, for example, have started to reformulate academic understanding of nature-cultures based on relational thinking. Although the sustainability crisis serves as a contemporary backdrop and in fact calls for such innovative forms of interdisciplinary scholarship, the field of sustainability research has not yet tapped into the rich possibilities offered by relational thinking. Against this background, the purpose of this paper is to identify relational approaches to ontology, epistemology, and ethics which are relevant to sustainability research. More specifically, we analyze how relational approaches have been understood and conceptualized across a broad range of disciplines and contexts relevant to sustainability to identify and harness connections and contributions for future sustainability-related work. Our results highlight common themes and patterns across relational approaches, helping to identify and characterize a relational paradigm within sustainability research. On this basis, we conclude with a call to action for sustainability researchers to codevelop a research agenda for advancing this relational paradigm within sustainability research, practice, and education.

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Section: Relational Approaches To Ethicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a relational paradigm in sustainability research, practice, and education

Walsh

Böhme

Wamsler

2020

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“…However, many ecofeminists were cognizant of these essentialist worries from early on, and the field incorporates a diverse range of perspectives and has evolved significantly since its origins some decades ago. Ecofeminist writers have explored the connections between ecofeminism and flourishing (Cuomo 1998), animal ethics and vegetarianism (Adams 1990; Gruen 1996; Curtin 2004; Kheel 2008), human and economic “development” (Mies and Shiva 1993), activism (Mallory 2006), colonialism (Sturgeon 1999; Gaard 2017, ch. 1), and queer theory (Gaard 1997).…”

Section: Environmental and Ecological Justice: Engaging Entangled Oppressionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Ethics: The State of the Question

Hourdequin¹

2021

The Southern J of Philosophy

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Environmental ethics, as an academic field, was born out of professional philosophers' frustrations with anthropocentrism. In particular, philosophers such as Richard Sylvan and Holmes Rolston III found that canonical Western philosophy overlooked important questions regarding human relations to nonhuman animals and the broader world. Because many other traditions attend more closely to these relations, it is helpful to contextualize the initial development of academic environmental ethics as a critical response to a particular kind of deficiency characteristic of the Western tradition. In recent decades, the field has grown and broadened, and a more pluralistic, interdisciplinary, intercultural, and intersectional environmental ethics is emerging. This article traces developments in the field of environmental ethics during the last fifty years, beginning with discussions of the value of nature, deep ecology, the land ethic, environmental virtue ethics, and environmental pragmatism. Next, I turn to approaches that integrate social and environmental concerns through lenses that consider power dynamics and challenge relations of domination and oppression, bringing into focus questions of environmental and ecological justice. The final section considers some of the distinctive challenges associated with what some have dubbed "the Anthropocene," noting that the nature and designation of this epoch remain contested.

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“…Scholars have documented the fact that people of colour, immigrants, indigenous peoples, low‐income persons, women and queer folk across the US and the globe who already experience social, political, economic, and cultural marginalisation are also more likely to experience disproportionate environmental and public health threats from state and corporate institutions than other populations (Bullard 2000; Bullard et al. 2007; Cole and Foster 2000; Dillon and Sze 2016; Gaard 2017; Harrison 2011; Holifield et al. 2010; Stein 2004).…”

Section: Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Struggles for Environmental Justice in US Prisons and Jails

Pellow

2019

Antipode

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In this paper I ask how might environmental justice studies scholarship be recast if we consider the phenomenon of environmental injustice as a form of criminalisation? In other words, since environmental injustice is frequently a product of statesanctioned violence against communities of colour, then what are the implications of reframing it as a practice of treating those populations as criminally suspect and as deserving of state punishment? Moreover, how are the targets and survivors of environmental injustice/racism enlisted in generative ways that resist that criminalisation and support abolition? I answer these questions through a consideration of how struggles inside and outside of carceral spaces represent urgent and timely opportunities to rethink the possibilities of environmental justice theory and politics by linking them to practices and visions of abolition ecology and critical environmental justice.

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From ‘cli-fi’ to critical ecofeminism

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Towards a relational paradigm in sustainability research, practice, and education

Towards a relational paradigm in sustainability research, practice, and education

Environmental Ethics: The State of the Question

Struggles for Environmental Justice in US Prisons and Jails

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