Environmental feminisms

Berg, Karijn van den

doi:10.4324/9781315648743-4

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“…FPE as an analytical tool also allows us to think about the COVID-19 within the spectrum of more-than-human-others (Desai and Harriet, 2018), and we therefore demonstrate the virus as an agent that deploys power relations (Bajde, 2013;Bettany, 2015) and constrains or drives the political practice of care. The article, thus, points out on the importance of questioning the conceptualization of nature on dichotomous perceptions (Harcourt, 2018;Van den Berg, 2019). Hence, we argue that the virus acts as an agent that mobilizes everyday uncertainties by placing subjects in uncertain scenarios.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…This paper contributes to the growing body of literature on care in feminist scholarship and FPE, which is developed from a materialist and post humanist perspective (Harcourt, 2018;Desai and Harriet, 2018;Van den Berg, 2019). Although care in feminist scholarship is highly contentious, the research builds on a typology of care relations based on practices of distribution, exchange, and reciprocity (Mauss, 1974;Tronto, 1998;López-Córdova, 2014;Temple, 2000).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Practices of Care in Times of COVID-19

Becerra

Muneri-Wangari

2021

Front. Hum. Dyn.

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We argue that the COVID-19 virus has been a trigger for emerging practices of care by being an actor with agency that transforms the everyday life of subjects by placing them under uncertainty. Therefore, this paper aims to show how practices of care emerged or were maintained as vulnerable groups were confronted by restrictions to movement and uncertainties following the outbreak of COVID-19. We demonstrate this using two case studies of the Maasai pastoral community in Narok, Kenya and the community kitchens in the city of Berlin, Germany. Thus, we seek to show how practices of care for, care about, and care with are carried out by the members of these communities during pandemic times. Granted that care remains highly contentious in feminist literature, this paper contributes to a growing body of literature on care in Feminist Political Ecology by broadening the conceptualization of care. The research builds on a typology of care relations based on practices of distribution, exchange, and reciprocity. This allows us to show when care is exercised in a unidirectional and hierarchical way and when in a multidirectional way reinforcing social bonds of responsibility and collective care that transcends the socio-nature boundaries.

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confidence: 84%

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confidence: 99%

Practices of Care in Times of COVID-19

Becerra

Muneri-Wangari

2021

Front. Hum. Dyn.

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“…This section proposes three entry points to facilitate the process of deep and reflexive co-production, drawing from the authors' reflections and literature on knowledge politics in the context of disaster and climate change. Here, feminist political ecology (FPE) scholarship informs our work, where its reflections on intersectionality, situated knowledge, decoloniality and queer ecologies underline the plurality and hierarchies of knowledge (van den Berg, 2018). We also reflect on the challenges in operationalizing the political function of co-production.…”

Section: Doing Deep and Reflexive Co-production In Drrmentioning

confidence: 99%

Co-production revisited: from knowledge plurality to action for disaster risk reduction

Tran,

Kim

2023

DPM

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PurposeThe authors revisit the notion of co-production, highlight more critical and re-politicized forms of co-production and introduce three principles for its operationalization. The paper’s viewpoint aims to find entry points for enabling more equitable disaster research and actions via co-production.Design/methodology/approachThe authors draw insights from the authors’ reflections as climate and disaster researchers and literature on knowledge politics in the context of disaster and climate change, especially within critical disaster studies and feminist political ecology.FindingsDisaster studies can better contribute to disaster risk reduction via political co-production and situating local and Indigenous knowledge at the center through three principles, i.e. ensuring knowledge plurality, surfacing norms and assumptions in knowledge production and driving actions that tackle existing knowledge (and broader sociopolitical) structures.Originality/valueThe authors draw out three principles to enable the political function of co-production based on firsthand experiences of working with local and Indigenous peoples and insights from a diverse set of co-production, feminist political ecology and critical disaster studies literature. Future research can observe how it can utilize these principles in its respective contexts.

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“…FPE is in itself an attempt to focus on transformation on a small, local scale, avoiding the sense of inadequacy created by the capitalist system [70], making space in a process of unmaking of capitalist practices [71]. Contrary to the latter, it requires rethinking the relationship between Humans and Nature, with an awareness of the cultural biases given by patriarchy, eurocentrism, capitalism, anthropocentrism, and so on [72]. Another critical aspect pointed out by FPE concerns externalities, from the capitalistic point of view, generated by women's domestic and reproductive labour as well as by Nature [73].…”

Section: Feminist Political Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Access to resources is not only about food, water, wood, and so on: knowledge, rights and power are critical resources too [72]. Women in Nepal are prevented from having access to effective control over natural resources by having no voice over community forestry management.…”

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Affirmative Policy in Nepal’s Community Forestry: Does it Make a Difference in Terms of Social Sustainability?

Murer

Piccoli

2022

Sustainability

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Decentralized forest management is criticized for not involving women in decision-making. The study explores what the introduction of affirmative policy in community forestry committees means for the participation of women in decision making in four cases in the middle hills of Nepal. The qualitative analysis of interviews and observations draws on feminist political ecology, a women’s participation typology, the critical mass theory and gender justice. The findings centre on the importance of electoral procedures, the role of authorities, the role of the familial context and whether and how women internalized and contested patriarchal norms. The women’s quota was found to have had as yet little impact on substantive participation, yet the enhanced exposure of female committee members to the discrepancy between the gender equality discourse introduced in community forestry and the persistent male domination seemed to create, in a few women performing as critical actors, an enhanced awareness of male suppression; an awareness that is a prerequisite for contestation of those patriarchal norms denying women access to power over forest and, generally speaking, of gender injustice. This research reports examples of women, brought in the executive committees by the studied affirmative policies, successfully contesting traditional gender roles and gender injustice, negotiating for them and for the other women, a more effective and meaningful participation in the management of Community Forests.

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Environmental feminisms

Cited by 4 publications

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Practices of Care in Times of COVID-19

Practices of Care in Times of COVID-19

Co-production revisited: from knowledge plurality to action for disaster risk reduction

Affirmative Policy in Nepal’s Community Forestry: Does it Make a Difference in Terms of Social Sustainability?

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