Climate Chaos: Ecofeminism and the Land Question

by Ana Isla (Editor)

Overview

Today's social and ecological crises, which threaten the preservation of life on our planet, require our attention to understand the dynamics of patriarchy and capitalism, as well as to unmask "answers" or false solutions that obscure, perpetuate, and even worsen the current situation. Ecofeminists have critically examined several of the underlying assumptions of the capitalist-patriarchal conceptual framework, such as the promotion of the destructive transformation of nature, hierarchical thinking, the encouragement of dualism, the enforcement of the logic of domination over life, even the hatred for life itself, and speciesism. Yet ecofeminism's attempts to call attention to and stop the destruction of the planet have not yet been able to tackle the growing problem of climate change, which is threatening not only life on earth, but the earth and all her "living systems." Climate change and extreme weather are exacerbating existing social inequalities and political conflicts globally. Climate justice is the starting point from which we can begin to build the kind of local and international solidarity that is needed to address climate change and transform the socio-economic hierarchies that caused it. This volume re-examines existing analyses from this new and much broader point of view in theory and practise, and points to the need for a new concept of nature and the earth as a living being, a cosmic being, so that it is the life of the earth herself that today must be protected.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771335942
Publisher:	Inanna Publications
Publication date:	12/27/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Ana Isla is Professor with a joint appointment in the Sociology Department and the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies (WGST) at Brock University. She also has an affiliation with the Social Justice Program. Isla’s research focuses on the consequences of the Earth Summits, and sustainable development, in particular in Costa Rica and Peru. She is the author of The Greening of Costa Rica: Women, Peasants, Indigenous People, and the Remaking of Nature (2015).

Ana Isla is Professor with a joint appointment in the Sociology Department and the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies (WGST) at Brock University. She also has an affiliation with the Social Justice Program. Isla’s research focuses on the consequences of the Earth Summits, and sustainable development, in particular in Costa Rica and Peru. She is the author of The Greening of Costa Rica: Women, Peasants, Indigenous People, and the Remaking of Nature (2015).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction – Ana Isla

On Ecofeminism

1. Climate Chaos: Mother Earth Under Threat – Ana Isla

2. Money or Life? What Makes Us Really Rich? – Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen

3. Deconstructing Necrophilia: Eco/feminist Perspectives on the Perversion of Death and Love – Irene Friesen Wolfstone

4. The Guardians of Conga Lagoons: Defending Land, Water and Freedom in Peru – Ana Isla

5. Ecofeminism, Commons and Climate Justice – Patricia E. (Ellie) Perkins

6. Finite Disappointments or Infinite Hope: Working Through Tensions Within Transnational Feminist Movements – Dorothy Attakora-Gyan

On the Land Question

7. Sasipihkeyihtamowin: Niso Nehiyaw iskwewak  – Margaret Kress

8. Climate Change and Environmental Racism: What Payments for Ecosystem Services Means for Peasants and Indigenous People – Ana Isla

9. Biotechnology and Biopiracy: Plant-based Contraceptives in the Americas and the (Mis)management of Nature – Rachel O’Donnell

10. Building Food Sovereignty through Ecofeminism in Kenya: From Capitalist to Commoners’ Agricultural Value Chains – Leigh Brownhill, Wahu M. Kaara and Terisa E. Turner

11. Monsanto and the Patenting of Life: Primitive Accumulation in the Twenty-First Century – Jennifer Bonato

12. “I Know My Own Body … They Lied”: Race, Knowledge, and Environmental Sexism in Institute, wv and Old Bhopal, India – Reena Shadaan

13. Water is Worth More than Gold: Ecofeminism and Gold Mining in the Dominican Republic – Klaire Gain

14. Indigenous Andoas Uprising: Defending Territorial Integrity and Autonomy in Peru – Ana Isla

On Sustainable Development

15. The “Greening” of Costa Rica: A War Against Subsistence  – Ana Isla

16. Earth Love: Finding Our Way Back Home – Ronnie Joy Leah

Contributor Notes