Feminism and the Anthropocene

Assessing the Field through Recent Books

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ID4413458
AuthorsPaulla Ebron, Paulla A Ebron, Paulla Ebron Paulla Ebron, Anna Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (0000-0002-0411-959X), Anna Tsing Anna Tsing
Year2017
Volume43
Issue3
Pages658-683
Publication date2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0046-3663 • E-ISSN: 2153-3873
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/fem.2017.0023
OpenAlexW4300869389
LanguageEN
Citations received16

This assessment of the field explores a confluence of feminist thinking about the 20th-century Great Acceleration in the United States: post-World-War II projects of modernization made the security of white nuclear families global models of well-being, while banishing the work of their securitization to non-white sacrifice zones—which eventually came to encompass most of the earth. “Anthropocene” is thus a project of making race and gender as much as making capital. The essay continues into feminist arguments for limiting the Anthropocene to maintain spaces of more-than-human livability. We end with work of emerging scholars

Anthropocene · Environmental ethics · Feminism · Field (mathematics · Political economy · Political science · Securitization · Sociology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Philosophy

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