Ecofeminism revisited
Critical Insights on Contemporary Environmental Governance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4367494 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elissa Foster (0000-0003-2737-9930, University of Birmingham) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 190-205 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1464700120988639 |
| OpenAlex | W3127117804 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 17 |
Echoing other articles in this special issue, this article re-evaluates a collection of feminist works that fell out of fashion as a consequence of academic feminism embracing poststructuralist and postmodernist trends. In line with fellow contributors, the article critically reflects upon the unsympathetic reading of feminisms considered to be essentialising and universalistic, in order to re-evaluate, in my case, ecofeminism. As an introduction, I reflect on my own perhaps unfair rejection of ecofeminism as a doctoral researcher and early career academic who, in critiquing 1990s international environmental governance, sought to problematise the essentialist premise on which it appeared to be based. The article thereafter challenges this well-rehearsed critique by carefully revisiting a sample of ecofeminist work produced between the late 1970s and the early 1990s. In an effort to avoid wholesale abandonment of the wealth of feminist theory often labelled as second wave, or the rendering of feminisms of the past as redundant as feminist theory changes over time, this article re-reads the work of ecofeminists, such as Starhawk, Susan Griffin and Vandana Shiva, to demonstrate their contemporary relevance. In so doing, the article argues that a contemporary re-reading of ecofeminism offers insights allowing for a radical rethinking of contemporary environmental governance
Close reading · Corporate governance · Ecofeminism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Essentialism · Feminism · Feminist theory · Premise · Social science · Sociology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Gender Studies · Philosophy
Animal Studies
Encouraging Women's Empowerment
The Ecofeminism Practice
Visual representations of women activists in the Akbelen protests
The rise of Rights of Nature movement and its political implications in Ireland and beyond
Social (In)justice, climate change and climate policy in Western Australia
Gender and Sustainability in Ecological Intentional Communities
Counting women? Gendered sustainability and inclusivity for an ocean accounting framework
The position of women in decision-making processes on environmental issues
Developing normative criteria for meaningful citizen participation and deliberation in environmental policy
Dissecting the ethics of choreographed encounters with animal death in the zoo
Dare to care
Ecofeminism ↔ Intraconnectivism
With great power comes great responsibility
Theorising Disablement through the Collective-Materialist Approach to Disabling Capitalism
Ecofeminism and food activism in transformative travel as a tool for change
Sweaty bodies
Feminist approaches to environmental politics
What's care go to do with it? Feminism and the uncertain radical potential of care
Ecodependence
Ecological modernisation
Sustainable Development
International sustainable development policy
Ecofeminism in the twenty-first century
Climate Weirding and Queering Nature
On the Poverty of Our Nomenclature
The geology of mankind? A critique of the Anthropocene narrative
What's Wrong with Ecofeminism
Rethinking Sustainability in the Anthropocene
Earth Mother Myths and Other Ecofeminist Fables
Eco-socialism/Eco-feminism
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |