Gynocentric Eco-Logics

Glazebrook, Trish

doi:10.2979/ete.2005.10.2.75

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“…These range from activities that are directly nurturing, such as cooking and eating, to the physical sensation of collecting food waste and feeling its weight and bulk; of becoming aware through bodily learning of the extent of such waste. Moreover, attention to embodied aspects of care enables a re‐balancing from over‐rationalization, which ecofeminists such as Plumwood and others (e.g., Glazebrook, ) have identified as leading to ecological and social crises, to a greater valuation of emotional and embodied interconnection to the human and biophysical world. Although cognitive considerations of moral issues remain important, embodied experience should be given a more central position in building understandings of how care, and motivations to care, emerge.…”

Section: Discussion and Contribution: From Embodiment And Care To Polmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For Hamington (), viscerally experienced emotions combine with a caring imagination to motivate action (see also Kheel, ). This results in a form of knowing that extends beyond the rational and involves engagements which value that ‘cannot be fully articulated according to the demands of objectivity … knowledge guided by and responsive to the physical environment in which it is practiced’ (Glazebrook, , p. 80). Such embodied, situated knowledge can be gained from direct experience of ‘concrete others’ (Benhabib, , p. 164), which facilitates our understanding of at least some of the other's needs.…”

Section: Ecofeminism and Care Ethics: Relatedness Embodiment And Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Embodiment, care and practice in a community kitchen

Phillips

Willatt

2019

Gender Work & Organization

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This article explores activist practices in a community kitchen based in the south of the United Kingdom with a dual focus on social and environmental justice. It draws on these practices to develop further feminist, and specifically ecofeminist, concepts of care ethics by arguing that embodiment is an essential element in lived relationships of care. Moreover, we show that these embodied components enable learning that can disrupt settled understandings of social and environmental injustices, including negotiating tensions relating to class and race. We demonstrate how this disruption combines with imaginative processes to stimulate critical political analysis of the relationship between local contexts of need and broader socio-political structures and power relations. Crucially, we work towards illuminating how care ethics and social practice combine to stimulate and inform political action. K E Y W O R D S feminist, ethics of care, ecofeminism, embodiment, activism, emergency food provisioning 1 | INTRODUCTION How can feminist theories of care ethics combine with social action to respond to unfolding social and environmental crises through bringing about transformative change? This question has long been posed by ecofeminism and, in this article, we demonstrate how embodied practices shift care expressed at the level of the personal into a wider political domain in line with the imperatives of ecofeminist care ethics. We argue that embodied, caring experiences can provide the moral resources for action to challenge the status quo and develop new ways of being in and with the world (Gibson Graham, 2011).

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Section: Discussion and Contribution: From Embodiment And Care To Polmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ecofeminism and Care Ethics: Relatedness Embodiment And Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Embodiment, care and practice in a community kitchen

Phillips

Willatt

2019

Gender Work & Organization

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“…Examples of these include, Mother/Father, Nature/Culture, Body/Mind, Emotion/Reason, White/Non‐White, Human/Animal, Public/Private, Heterosexual/Queer and Heaven/Earth. Within ecofeminist conceptualizations such dualistic hierarchies are viewed as having led to the situation, in which the oppressions of gender, sexuality, race, class and nature are interlinked in the first place, with that which is perceived as subordinate being systematically devalued (Cudworth, ; Glazebrook, ). The earth, for example, is usually most notable by its absence in organizational analysis (Sullivan, ; Shrivastava, ).…”

Section: Ecofeminist Contributions — Reactionary or Catalytic?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While biology is probably in the mix somewhere, it also seems likely that social expectations are highly influential in women's development and ways of being and behaving. In other words, ‘We [women] have no access to our biology free of social construction, and our social construction has its reproductive underpinning.’ (Glazebrook, , p. 88) Thousands of years of the ascendance of masculine organizational values do not dissolve overnight and we live in an increasingly demanding era. The invisible ties of (inter) dependent relationships are often what make this bearable for many of us, as well as literally underpinning the very fabric of life, whether provided by women or nature.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Latest Scientific Discovery Drops Bombshell — ‘Mother Nature’ Is Biologically Male — Ruminations on the Value of Care as Sustainable Organizational Practice

Young¹

2017

Gender Work & Organization

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Noting the increasing employment of the trope, Mother Earth, I link this with ongoing attempts within ecofeminism(s) to re‐balance the significance given to both mothers and nature(s). Despite the contentious nature of a subject that has become mired in potentially un(re)productive conflict among feminists and ecofeminists, I follow Phillips in suggesting that it is vital not to dismiss the materiality of the ‘maternal body’ before it has been adequately theorized and valued. This paper is intended to encourage alliances at a time when hyper‐masculine organizational culture is increasing its assaults on both women and the environment. Such assault continues to be coupled with the ongoing refusal to give proper acknowledgement to the caring labours of women all over the globe. If we continue to allow care to be devalued simply because of its long historical association with women, current organizational forms are likely to become ever more brutal in their strategic quest to expand into ever shrinking and contested territories. By contrast, an ecofeminist focus in which no body is viewed as less than another, has the potential to create a theoretical and practical approach that is precisely what our current crises call for.

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“…Embodied materiality includes visceral sensations and emotions which are experienced through the body, and Glazebrook (2005) points to the importance of emotional attachments and engagements to develop caring relationships with other humans and within the natural world. Such attachments impact the things we do as a result of those feelings.…”

Section: Ecofeminist Care-sensitive Ethicsmentioning

confidence: 99%