Abstract
Introduction to the Special Issue of <i>Feminist Encounters</i> on ‘Gender and the Anthropocene’
Highlights
Introduction to the Special Issue ofFeminist Encounters on ‘Gender and the Anthropocene’Amanda Gouws 1*, Deirdre Byrne 2*, Azille Coetzee 3Published: March 5, 2021This special issue of Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics is motivated by the need to craft a gendered, and intersectional feminist, response to the Anthropocene
The point that Colebrook makes is that the speed with which this zoonotic virus spread exposed the social exclusion and marginalisation of millions of people on whose bodies violence is exercised continually in gendered ways, in conditions of social and political marginalisation and environmental and climate degradation, that make zoonotic viruses possible in the first place
In this Special Issue, we present feminist and queer theorisations of the Anthropocene that contribute to the untangling of the complex web of violent racialised/gendered subjugations and extractive technologies that continue to function in the making and maintenance of the modern capitalist world
Summary
Introduction to the Special Issue ofFeminist Encounters on ‘Gender and the Anthropocene’Amanda Gouws 1*, Deirdre Byrne 2*, Azille Coetzee 3Published: March 5, 2021This special issue of Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics is motivated by the need to craft a gendered, and intersectional feminist, response to the Anthropocene. The destruction of indigenous populations, cultures and ways of life is directly linked to human impact on the non-human environment, in so far as the racialised human / non-human distinction is historically relational to a discourse of settler-colonial rights and the concomitant material practices of extraction (Yusoff, 2019).
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