From the ground up: ecofeminism and ecological economics

Household work and energy consumption: a degrowth perspective. Catalonia’s case study

“…From a time use point of view, it means that the Catalan quality of life depends upon the goods and services provided by unpaid household work as much as on those goods and services provided by the labour market. Hence, the present work confirms the importance of nonmarket activities as it has been argued for decades by feminist scholars (Antonopoulous and Hirway, 2010;McMahon, 1997;Jochimsen and Knobloch, 1997;O'Hara, 1997;Perkins, 1997;Picchio, 2003;Carrasco, 2003;Carrasco and Mayordomo, 2005;Pietilä, 1997), and only recently recognized by mainstream economists (Stiglitz et al, 2009). It confirms also that women work more than men not only for the UW, but also if we sum up unpaid and paid work (Carrasco and Mayordomo, 2005;Fisher and Robinson, 2011).…”

“…5 These demographic patterns have also social consequences; the most worrisome is the tendency towards the social isolation of the single person households (Jarvis, 2011). 6 We list here just some of them: gender analysis of standard of living in industrialized (Picchio, 2003) and less industrialized countries (Antonopoulous and Hirway, 2010); eco-feminist studies on the unpaid work (McMahon, 1997;Jochimsen and Knobloch, 1997;O'Hara, 1997;Perkins, 1997;Pietilä, 1997); studies which aim to obtain the correct mix of qualitative and quantitative analysis of time activities in a critical gender perspective (Carrasco, 2003;Carrasco and Mayordomo, 2005); the cross-countries analysis in the allocation of time exploring gender convergence in domestic work and leisure pattern in different regions of the world (Kan et al, 2011;Gimenez-Nadal and Sevilla-Sanz, 2011;Fisher and Robinson, 2011); analysis on the trends in the valuation of households' unpaid work (Hamdad, 2003); papers on the different application of time-use data to diverse subjects (Joyce and Stewart, 1999); the importance of unpaid work to reach the millennium developments goals (UNDP, 2005a).…”

“…The eco-feminist critique of economic thought is still valid: mainstream economics does not take into account the dependency and interdependency of life, i.e. the link connecting the social and natural world outside the market (McMahon, 1997;Jochimsen and Knobloch, 1997). Goods and services produced by the household and the natural world remain external and unaccounted for, and this generates a representation of society in which the embedded-ness and embodied-ness of humanity is hidden (O'Hara, 1997;Mellor, 1997).…”

Feminist Ecological Economics and Sustainability

“…Feminist economists and sociologists have grappled with the questions of whether and how to value unpaid work and the difficulty of measuring it in monetary terms, how to account for multi-tasking and multiple functions, and the different social locations of market actors, and how to escape or pose alternatives to the market as the only site for economic transactions; see the section on 'time' below (Henderson 1992;McMahon 1997;Eichler 1999;Hawthorne 2002;Feiner 2003).…”

Positive dependency and virtuous cycles: From resource dependence to resilience in urban social-ecological systems

“…The field of ecological economics endeavors to provide a better understanding of economic relationships between people and their environments, which may lead to ecologically better economic behavior (McMahon, 1997). For this to occur, however, the field of ecological economics must be able to adequately theorize these relationships.…”