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Title: Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx & the Postmodern (updated edition)
Author: SALLEH ARIEL
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 15/08/2017
Imprint: ZED BOOKS
Price: $50.00
Publishing status: Active
Ecofeminism as Politics is the first work to offer an integrative framework for socialist, feminist, postcolonial, and ecological movements. Originally published in 1997, it shows how green, socialist, and postcolonial thinking have been held back by conceptual confusions over gender. Meanwhile, some of what goes under the name of feminism has itself been unhelpful to building global sustainability and democracy. Salleh argues that ecofeminism reaches beyond contemporary social movement ideology and practice, by prefiguring a political synthesis of four revolutions in one: ecology is feminism is socialism is post-colonial struggle. The argument addresses discourses on science, the body, culture and nature, to develop an innovative re-reading of Marx. Salleh’s gendered deconstruction is ground-breaking and invaluable to deep ecology, social ecology, eco-socialism, and postmodern feminist thought. This edition features forewords by Indian ecofeminist Vandana Shiva and US philosopher of social ecology John Clark, a new introduction, and a recent conversation between Salleh and younger scholar activists.
‘One of the most original and important thinkers in the international political ecology field. Salleh unveils the blind spot at the root of contemporary social and ecological crises and her lucid call for an “embodied materialism” enlightens like no other framework I know.’ Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; author of Designs for a Pluriverse
‘Neoliberalism has not eliminated poverty, nor discrimination of women, nor exploitation of the Earth; neither economists, politicians, nor theoreticians know a way out. Marxists ignore both nature’s and women’s contribution to the production of wealth, but as ecofeminists show, this is the lost key to building Another World.’ Maria Mies, ecofeminist activist and author of Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale
‘The combination of eco-socialist, feminist and decolonial perspectives is analytically and politically thrilling. Ecofeminism as Politics offers an integrative understanding of our world, its multiple processes and crises, and possibilities for change in the post-development era.’
Ulrich Brand, University of Vienna; co-author of Theorizing the Imperial Mode of Living
‘A powerful critique of both anthropocentrism and the androcentric thinking that permeates scholarship and activist discourses on the left. This social movement synthesis is an essential read for those seeking solutions to our deepening systemic crises.’ Jackie Smith, University of Pittsburgh; editor of the Journal of World-Systems Research
ISBN: 9781786990402
Dimension: 216mm X 135mm
Pages: 400