Mother Earth, the Cyborg, and the Queer: Ecofeminism and (More) Questions of Identity

Sandilands, Catriona

doi:10.2979/nws.1997.9.3.18

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“…Sandilands and Gaard discuss the importance of avoiding the ‘fetishization of small differences’ among feminists (Gaard, , p. 21). Indeed, both scholars have a long‐term commitment to thinking about how we as feminists can build coalition and alliances that allow us to find common cause beyond our disagreements and differences (Gaard, ; Sandilands, ).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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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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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“…Näin myös naisen ja luonnon läheisyys on performanssi, jota voidaan horjuttaa esittämällä sitä uusin tavoin. (Sandilands 1997. ) Naiseutta, mieheyttä, muita sukupuolia ja niiden suhdetta luontoon on siis mahdollista rakentaa erilaisiksi.…”

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Sosialisaatio ja varhaiskasvatus kapitaloseenin aikakaudella

Paavilainen

2022

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Tarkastelen artikkelissa ekososiaalista kasvatusteoriaa materialistisen queer-ekofeminismin näkökulmasta. Ekososiaalisella kasvatusteorialla ja ekofeminismillä on yhtymäkohtia, kuten ihmisen ja luonnon välisen keinotekoisen raja-aidan purkaminen. Ekososiaalinen kasvatusteoria ei kuitenkaan käsittele monia ekofeminismille keskeisiä oikeudenmukaisuuden kysymyksiä. Tässä artikkelissa tarkastelen erityisesti sukupuolen merkitystä ekososiaaliselle kasvatusteorialle. Aikaisemman tutkimuksen perusteella sukupuoleen sosiaalistumisella on merkitystä vastuullisen luontosuhteen muodostumiselle. Ekososiaalinen kasvatusteoria kuitenkin sivuuttaa tämän. Lisäksi ekososiaalinen kasvatusteoria ohittaa kapitalistisen maailmanjärjestelmän työnjaon sukupuolittuneisuuden. Suomalaisessa virallisessa työelämässä kapitalismin sukupuolittuneisuus näkyy esimerkiksi varhaiskasvatuksessa, joka on naisvaltainen ja rakenteellisesti aliresursoitu ala. Ekososiaalisessa kasvatusteoriassa kapitalismi tunnistetaan ongelmaksi, mutta sen ratkaisut kapitalismin muuttamiseen keskittyvät lähinnä yksilöiden sivistämiseen. Analyysini perusteella ekososiaalinen kasvatusteoria tarvitsee sukupuolisensitiivisyyttä. Lisäksi kapitalismin haastamiseen tarvitaan vaikuttavampia keinoja. Julkisen sektorin naisvaltaiset uusintavan työn alat, kuten varhaiskasvatus, voivat pyrkiä muuttamaan kapitalismia esimerkiksi työtaistelujen avulla. Ne voivat vaatia enemmän aikaa ja resursseja työnsä elämää uusintaville työtehtäville, kuten leikille ja hoivalle.

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“…Intersectionality emerged in part as a way of naming and addressing the lacunae in liberatory movements—such as the movement for women's suffrage in the United States—which failed to adequately acknowledge the diverse experiences among women differently positioned due to their race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or other markers of identity (Crenshaw 1989). In environmental and animal ethics, intersectional approaches (though they are not always explicitly labeled as such) have been employed to understand the connections between animals, environment, and disability (Ray and Sibara 2017; Taylor 2017); the relationships between disability and environmental justice (Kafer 2013; Johnson 2017; Bretz 2020); environment and race (Finney 2014; Savoy 2015; Murdock 2020), animal ethics, colonialism, and racism (Deckha 2013; Kim 2015); gender, sexuality and the environment (Gaard 1997; Sandilands 1997); and colonialism and climate change (Agarwal and Narain 1991; Watt‐Cloutier 2015; Whyte 2016). Much of this work crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries, with some of the major contributions coming from scholars in decolonial studies, sociology, anthropology, literary theory, critical race and critical gender studies, as well as from writers outside the academy.…”

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Environmental Ethics: The State of the Question

Hourdequin¹

2021

The Southern J of Philosophy

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Environmental ethics, as an academic field, was born out of professional philosophers' frustrations with anthropocentrism. In particular, philosophers such as Richard Sylvan and Holmes Rolston III found that canonical Western philosophy overlooked important questions regarding human relations to nonhuman animals and the broader world. Because many other traditions attend more closely to these relations, it is helpful to contextualize the initial development of academic environmental ethics as a critical response to a particular kind of deficiency characteristic of the Western tradition. In recent decades, the field has grown and broadened, and a more pluralistic, interdisciplinary, intercultural, and intersectional environmental ethics is emerging. This article traces developments in the field of environmental ethics during the last fifty years, beginning with discussions of the value of nature, deep ecology, the land ethic, environmental virtue ethics, and environmental pragmatism. Next, I turn to approaches that integrate social and environmental concerns through lenses that consider power dynamics and challenge relations of domination and oppression, bringing into focus questions of environmental and ecological justice. The final section considers some of the distinctive challenges associated with what some have dubbed "the Anthropocene," noting that the nature and designation of this epoch remain contested.

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Mother Earth, the Cyborg, and the Queer: Ecofeminism and (More) Questions of Identity

Cited by 23 publications

References 6 publications

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

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

Sosialisaatio ja varhaiskasvatus kapitaloseenin aikakaudella

Environmental Ethics: The State of the Question

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