Contesting Green Growth, Connecting Care, Commons and Enough

Wichterich, Christa

doi:10.5040/9781350221970.ch-002

Cited by 43 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Problematising the gendered and racial inequalities in contemporary care economies, many urge for a radical transformation of social reproductive labour, including through more public ownership of services, better pay, more workplace democracy and universal working-time reduction (Aronoff et al ., 2019; Cohen and MacGregor, 2020; Williams, 2021). A variety of approaches to the welfare state exists with eco-feminist scholarship, with some rejecting it as inherently violent and proposing an alternative strategy of commoning collective care provision which does not rely on the existing capitalist welfare state (Saave and Muraca, 2021; Wichterich, 2015; Mies and Shiva, 2014), while others suggest that reforming existing welfare institutions is possible and desirable, albeit proposals differ on how far reforms should go (Williams, 2021).…”

Section: Eco-feminismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate Crisis and Social Protection - From Worker Protection to Post-growth Transformation?

Nenning,

Bridgen,

Zimmermann

et al. 2023

Social Policy and Society

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The article discusses five literature strands’ approaches towards social protection systems in the context of climate crisis: Adaptive Social Protection, Just Transition, Green New Deal, Post-growth, and Eco-feminism. As we argue, these five strands are located on a spectrum between a green growth orientation and a green anti-capitalist orientation. Furthermore, they differ in terms of their problematisation of the climate crisis and have different perspectives on relevant actors, on world regions, and – most relevant in the context of social welfare – their conceptualisation of social protection. While Adaptive Social Protection emphasizes cash transfers and insurances, Green New Deal and Just Transition approaches focus more on redistribution and labour market policies, and Post-growth and Eco-feminist approaches more on universalist policies and systems. We argue that these literatures each have their weaknesses, but also offer urgent questions, concepts, and insights for further social policy research.

show abstract

Section: Eco-feminismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate Crisis and Social Protection - From Worker Protection to Post-growth Transformation?

Nenning,

Bridgen,

Zimmermann

et al. 2023

Social Policy and Society

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…In order to investigate how women enacted ethical practices of caring, the feminist ethics of care is addressed by identifying sustainable practices in the natural resources used partly governed by social, moral, and reciprocity relations to provide well-being (Walsh, 2015;Haraway, 2016;Castagnetti et al, 2021). Distinguishing these ethical practices of care is crucial toward transformative politics (Wichterich, 2015). Care is considered a process of four phases.…”

Section: Post-capitalist Feminist Political Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Collective Rural Women Access, Use, and Control Over Communal Land in Mexico: A Post-capitalist Feminist Political Ecology Approach

Alarcón

Gómez

2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Rural women's access to land is fundamental for their individual and household well-being, equity, and empowerment. In Mexico, the agrarian reform of 1992 and customary gendered rights shaped land use, access, and control. Rural women's access to collective land is relevant since social property—ejido and agrarian communities—represents 52% of the national territory. As an expression of the collective organization, commons were also performed to use and control communal land and biophysical resources collectively. This paper examines the collective peasant women's bargaining process to access, use, and control communal land. The post-capitalist feminist political ecology approach allowed us to distinguish and analyze gendered strategies employed by a cooperative led by women at different levels—household, community, and government—to access and use communal land and biophysical resources by the process of commons—commoning. Rural women's collective efforts are located in Hidalgo, central Mexico. Firstly, the Agrarian Reform modifications related to gender equality issues are investigated, followed by examining rural women's socioeconomic conditions. The case study permitted us to identify and analyze critical factors that enhanced long-term agreements to control communal land beyond the Agrarian Law scope by the commoning examination. The collective rural women's strategies to use communal land improved well-being based on gendered peasant knowledge, organization, and stakeholder support. Nevertheless, the strategies increased women's burden and reinforced the existing gendered norms such as female altruism. Furthermore, the need to discuss the bargaining process over communal land concerning a diversity of commons is argued: knowledge, social, and biophysical, in which gender and care are critical variables.

show abstract

“…To do so requires an understanding of the global economic dimensions of the food system, but also how socio-cultural structures shape divisions of labour, including productive and reproductive or care work. Wichterich (2015) has illustrated how the commitment to "green growth" on the part of states and corporate actors promotes shifts in agricultural production. The renewed focus on privatization and productivity leads to the "devaluation of small-scale agriculture as inefficient and not profitable," which places investors in opposition to local producers and peasants, particularly women, who use common lands for water, energy and food (Wichterich, 2015, p. 80).…”

Section: Feminist Examinations Of Food Security and Productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Old habits die hard: The need for feminist rethinking in global food and agricultural policies

Collins

2018

CanFoodStudies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

<p>A number of global initiatives designed in recent years address global food security and aim to reduce the vulnerability of small-scale and peasant farmers in the face of expanded transnational investment in large-scale agriculture and land acquisition. While there have been efforts to consider women within such initiatives, global governance institutions often overlook the complex gendered dimensions of food systems alongside agricultural land and labour markets. Although institutions emphasize the need for “women’s empowerment”, few policy recommendations have considered its practical application. Indeed, many governance initiatives that address food security or promote land security tend to depoliticize inequalities, which shows the importance of feminist food studies from the perspective of global food and land policy. Integrating a feminist food studies lens to the global governance of food and agriculture allows us to explore the complexities of gendered relations in agricultural practices. A more complete understanding of everyday material, socio-cultural and corporeal experiences within agricultural practices provides a greater understanding of the mechanisms by which gender relations structure food production, land ownership, resource access and governance processes. By using a feminist food studies lens we see a more complete picture of the realities of local resource management and the potential implications for global policymakers such as the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Committee for World Food Security (CFS). Through this framework, I illustrate how feminist analyses challenge conventional approaches to gender in global policymaking related to food and agricultural production. </p>

show abstract

Contesting Green Growth, Connecting Care, Commons and Enough

Cited by 43 publications

References 0 publications

Climate Crisis and Social Protection - From Worker Protection to Post-growth Transformation?

Climate Crisis and Social Protection - From Worker Protection to Post-growth Transformation?

Collective Rural Women Access, Use, and Control Over Communal Land in Mexico: A Post-capitalist Feminist Political Ecology Approach

Old habits die hard: The need for feminist rethinking in global food and agricultural policies

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About