Ecofeminism revisited: critical insights on contemporary environmental governance

نویسندگان

چکیده

Echoing other articles in this special issue, article re-evaluates a collection of feminist works that fell out fashion as consequence academic feminism embracing poststructuralist and postmodernist trends. In line with fellow contributors, the critically reflects upon unsympathetic reading feminisms considered to be essentialising universalistic, order re-evaluate, my case, ecofeminism. As an introduction, I reflect on own perhaps unfair rejection ecofeminism doctoral researcher early career who, critiquing 1990s international environmental governance, sought problematise essentialist premise which it appeared based. The thereafter challenges well-rehearsed critique by carefully revisiting sample ecofeminist work produced between late 1970s 1990s. effort avoid wholesale abandonment wealth theory often labelled second wave, or rendering past redundant changes over time, re-reads ecofeminists, such Starhawk, Susan Griffin Vandana Shiva, demonstrate their contemporary relevance. so doing, argues re-reading offers insights allowing for radical rethinking governance.

برای دانلود باید عضویت طلایی داشته باشید

برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

منابع مشابه

Theoretical Foundations of Corporate Governance Revisited: a Critical Review

In this paper we review some of the initial ideologies regarding corporate governance, focusing in particular on the in the literature dominating Principal-Agent-Approach. We detail the implied assumptions and the thereof resulting consequences for corporate governance, including some resulting inconsistencies. Overall, we find that in the to principal-agent-conflict is rarely defined with the ...

متن کامل

Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Text

accompanied by informative photographs and illustrations. This gradually leads to Kukić Rukavina’s analysis of Dovniković and Čukli’s comic. The overview is intended for readers who want to find out more about both the novel and the comic, and serves as an excellent source of information for readers who are not acquainted with the novel or for those who just seek to broaden their knowledge in o...

متن کامل

Environmental Governance

■ Abstract This chapter reviews the literature relevant to environmental governance in four domains of scholarship: globalization, decentralization, market and individual incentives-based governance, and cross-scale governance. It argues that in view of the complexity and multiscalar character of many of the most pressing environmental problems, conventional debates focused on pure modes of gov...

متن کامل

A Critique of Ecofeminism

Since Francoise d'Eaubonne first coined the term eco-feminisme in 1974, a growing number of feminists and environmentalists have been concerned with the links between the domination of women and the domination of nature in Western culture. Although the concept of ecofeminism has come to mean quite different things to different ecofeminists, Karen Warren suggests that it is at least based on the...

متن کامل

ذخیره در منابع من


  با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید

ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Feminist Theory

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['1741-2773', '1464-7001']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700120988639