Eco-Sufficiency and Global Justice: Women Write Political Ecology
As the twenty-first century faces a crisis of democracy and sustainability, this book attempts to bring academics and alternative globalisation activists into conversation. Through studies of global neoliberalism, ecological debt, climate change, and the ongoing devaluation of reproductive and subsistence labour, these uncompromising essays by internationally distinguished women thinkers expose the limits of current scholarship in political economy, ecological economics, and sustainability science. The book introduces groundbreaking theoretical concepts for talking about humanity-nature links and will be a challenging read for activists and for students of political economy, environmental ethics, global studies, sociology, women's studies, and critical geography.
2009 | ISBN 9781876756710 | Paperback | 215 x 135 mm | 324 pp
Reviews
There is stimulating material in this book.
—Ben Courtice, BCC: Green Socialist
[Eco-sufficiency] engages theory and practice, drawing inspiration from the many indigenous, peasant, worker, ecological and women's movements challenging the economic dimensions of oppression.
—Joy Paton, Journal of Australian Political Economy
With the conceptual rethinking that goes into the various chapters of this book comes a new vocabulary, including such terms as embodied debt, meta-industrial labor, eco-sufficiency, toxic immiseration, and metabolic value... In places both academic and activist in tone, this volume bears witness to the reshaping of disciplines such as economics and political science. It offers substantial critique of Marxist doctrines, appropriation of Foucault, and engagement with influential environmental economists such as Herman Daly in order to respond to the current crisis of the environment through thinking more inclusive of cultural 'others', including women.
—Bonnie Kime Scott, Australian Women's Book Review
Table of Contents
1 - Ecological Debt : Embodied DebtAriel Salleh
PART I - HISTORIES
Extract: Veronika Bennholdt Thomsen and Maria Mies, The Subsistence Perspective
2 - The Devaluation of Women's Labour Silvia Federici
3 - Who is the ‘He' of He Who Decides in Economic Discourse? Ewa Charkiewicz
4 - The Diversity Matrix: Relationship and Complexity Susan Hawthorne
PART II - MATTER
Extract: Carolyn Merchant, Earthcare
5 - Development for Some is Violence for Others Nalini Nayak
6 - Nuclearised Bodies and Militarised SpaceZohl de Ishtar
7 - Women and Deliberative Water ManagementAndrea Moraes and Ellie Perkins
PART III - GOVERNANCE
Extract: Hilkka Pietila, 'Ontological Presuppositions'
8 - Mainstreaming Trade and Millennium Development Goals? Gig Francisco and Peggy Antrobus
9 - Policy and the Measure of Woman Marilyn Waring
10 - Feminist Ecological Economics in Theory and Practice Sabine U. O'Hara
PART IV - ENERGY
Extract: Teresa Brennan, Exhausting Modernity
11 - Who Pays for Kyoto Protocol? Selling Oxygen and Selling Sex Ana Isla
12 - How Global Warming is GenderedMeike Spitzner
13 - Women and the Abuja Declaration for Energy Sovereignty Leigh Brownhill and Terisa E. Turner
PART V - MOVEMENT
Extract: Vandana Shiva, Earth Democracy
14 Ecofeminist Political Economy and the Politics of Money Mary Mellor
15 - Saving Women: Saving the Commons Leo Podlashuc
16 - From Eco-Sufficiency to Global Justice Ariel Salleh