Ecofeminist Movement Research Articles

Ecofeminist Movement: Roles of Youth in Community-Based Waste Recycling Management

Ecofeminist Movement: Roles of Youth in Community-Based Waste Recycling Management

An Ecofeminist Contribution to the Debates on the Neoextractivist Development Model in Latin America

This article presents a materialist ecofeminist critique of neoextractivism by highlighting its historical origins and elaborating its economic policy implications in Latin America. Three questions addressed are as follows: 1) How can materialist ecofeminism contribute to understanding the current dynamics of capitalist development in the Global South, 2) why (neo)extractivism hits women hardest, and 3) to what extent and how ecofeminist movements can shape a post-extractivist transition to a just and sustainable future. The article’s main argument is that exploitation and oppression in Latin America can be understood in terms of gender, race, and class and, therefore, require an intersectional analysis framework. Within this framework, post-extractivist alternatives in this region must incorporate an ecofeminist analysis to understand better how social expression systems (including sexism, white supremacy, and ecological crises) intersect and reinforce each other. In this framework, this study is intended to contribute to the growing literature and debate on the development and resistance dynamics of neoextractivism in Latin America, where long-standing racial and gender inequalities intersect with class inequalities.

Ecofeminism as a Movement: Choosing between Economics and Nature Protection

This research aims to discuss the direction of the ecofeminist movement in Indonesia after the New Order. The world ecofeminist movement is often criticized because it is considered to obscure the essential spirit of feminism in its efforts to protect nature. However, in Indonesia, it is widely praised for its success in protecting wildlife from potential damage. This research uses ecofeminism theory and resource mobilization theory to examine the side of women's struggle to preserve nature. In order to identify research gaps and uncharted region for further investigation, this study employed a Systematic Literature Review (SLR). There are three stages involved in SLR: planning, conducting, and reporting. The results of this research are that there is strengthening within the organization of the ecofeminist movement when natural disasters and other potential natural damage occur, thus giving rise to collective awareness about the importance of women participating in protecting nature. This research concludes that the ecofeminist movement opens up new political opportunities for women to be empowered and prosperous and protect wildlife.

Representation of Lian Namang Music In The Besi Pare Ritual With An Ecofeminist Approach

Music is a universal language that can penetrate space and time. However, traditional music requires semi-improvisation to adjust to environmental conditions. Lian Namang's music for the Lamaholot community is a traditional music that tells some of the life philosophies of the predecessor community. One type of Lian Namang music is used in the Lamaholot tradition to personify a feminine figure in the mythology of the goddess of rice. Lian Namang's musical lyrics in rice mythology require contextuality with the times. In connection with the phenomenology that occurs in the Lamaholot culture, that patriarchal culture becomes dominant in the domination of nature and women, it is necessary to hold contextual musical representations based on Lian Namang's music so that they can have a persuasive influence on the Lamaholot community in respecting women and nature as the womb of life. The results of the research are used as a medium to represent the ecofeminist movement, which aims to influence society in responding to patriarchal culture. Masculine representation is not only seen as a centre (androcentric) that dominates and uses a fragmented nature. The mukti trilila theory is one of the foundations that helps humans to continue to adapt their knowledge and skills to the times, so that the noble values of life are passed down from generation to generation.

Ecofeminist Movements— from the North to the South

Ecofeminism grows from the idea that a woman’s ethics are closer to nature than a man’s and it revalue feminine traits. Women are seen in sync with nature, working in union with it, while men have a hierarchical relationship with nature in which their actions try to dominate it. This view poses the idea that men’s control over nature has created an ecological crisis in much of the world today. Ecofeminists look for non-violent solutions to world problems. They consider feminine values necessary for survival in the conditions of the world's patriarchy. And while ecofeminists may subscribe to liberal, radical, or Marxist/socialist thought, their main focus is on ecology—both of nature and human systems.

Curating Art for Antirape and Ecofeminist Movements: A Conversation with Monika Fabijanska

Curating Art for Antirape and Ecofeminist Movements:A Conversation with Monika Fabijanska Michael Dango (bio) and Monika Fabijanska (bio) When ARIELLA AZOULAY asked, "Has anyone ever seen a photograph of rape?" she wanted to know about a visual economy of representations: which images are or are not allowed into public circulation. Images of murder, traffic accidents, and even school shootings are unfortunately ubiquitous in news broadcasts and Hollywood blockbusters. But not images of rape. For AZOULAY, this lack enforces a toxic commonsense about women's bodies: it maintains a visual culture in which women are available to be violated or are violated already; it leaves women unable to recognize rape when it happens to them; and it removes the grounds on which women can make "emergency claims" about sexual assault, claims that would activate political discussion rather than private therapy for a social group denied the status of a political class.1 Contributing images of rape is not the best or only feminist means of disrupting this visual economy and its political consequences. Indeed, graphic images of sexual violence tend to sensationalize rape rather than ending it, like Gaspar Noé's ten-minute long take of a brutal assault in Irréversible (2004). Perhaps for this [End Page 441] reason, when in 2018 Monika Fabijanska curated one of the most expansive art exhibitions devoted to representations of rape in contemporary U.S. women's art, The Unheroic Act, she made sure she was not inviting viewers into a "house of horrors." The exhibition—which was widely hailed by the New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Art in America, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, and Art Papers and ranked fifth on Hyperallergic's best shows of the year in New York City—demonstrated the range in which artists had interrupted a masculinist tradition of depicting rape as "heroic," not just by focusing on survivors but by multiplying the modes of response available to them: shocking, seeking revenge, healing, documenting, educating, and organizing. Two years later, Fabijanska's exhibition on ecofeminism(s) continued to break stereotypes about the work of ecologically engaged feminist artists. Here was work that was not just written in "small letters," as Fabijanska puts it, but said in a "big voice" that was both technologically innovative as well as intellectually rigorous.2 As curator of ecofeminism(s), Fabijanska exposed a range of ecological responses and unpacked the diversity of strategies internal to ecofeminist movements. In her selection, she constructed a genealogy of resonance across artists: including an established cohort of recognizable names such as Ana Mendieta, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and even Barbara Kruger; up-and-coming artists like Bilge Friedlaender; and emergent artists such as Eliza Evans, Carla Maldonado, Jessica Segall, and Hanae Utamura. The Unheroic Act offered similar points of entry to audiences seeking feminist interventions in the visual culture surrounding rape. Fabijanska reframed the work of foundational feminist artists such as Suzanne Lacy, Yoko Ono, Senga Nengudi and Kara Walker with the paths taken after by younger artists such as Roya Amigh, Bang Geul Han and Naima Ramos-Chapman. Although trained as an art historian, Fabijanska came to curating after a decade as Poland's cultural attaché in New York (2000–2010), where she served as director of the Polish Cultural Institute. She saw as one of her charges "bringing the most cutting-edge and sophisticated of Poland's culture to the U.S., which was largely unknown here."3 In that position, she curated a multidisciplinary program of close to a hundred projects a year, by initiating and copresenting them at institutions across the country, including The Museum of Modern Art, The Jewish Museum, BAM–Brooklyn Academy of Music, La MaMa, the Lincoln Center, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the [End Page 442] Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Jessica Segall, A Thirsty Person, Having Found a Spring, Stops to Drink, Does Not Contemplate Its Beauty (2011). Performance/video still, archival print. ©2011 Jessica Segall. Courtesy of the artist. UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. The most important of her initiatives was the retrospective Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972, organized by Connie Butler at MoMA in...

Fostering creativity in the classroom.

Aim. The aim of this work is to present a qualitative analysis of the movie proposals prepared by preservice teachers in the context of an educational experience around the ecofeminist movement. The responses to a final questionnaire about sustainability awareness are also analysed.
 Methods. The participants were 47 alumni of the Grades of Early Childhood Education and Primary Education at a Spanish university. After a lecture about ecofeminism and reading a series of fragments of the young literature novel Yabarí by Lola Robles (2017), preservice teachers had to prepare the proposal for an ecofeminist movie, with a synopsis, plot, characters description, cast, and the script for a key scene. To assess the experience the students completed a questionnaire about different aspects of the proposal at the end of the semester, along with a validated questionnaire about sustainability awareness.
 Results and conclusion. The analysis of the ecofeminist movies prepared and the responses to the questionnaires shows how the students were able to assimilate the ecofeminist thesis and incorporate them to their reflection about sustainability. This is also manifested in the results of the “Attitudes toward Sustainable Development scale”, which indicate a high level of sustainability attitudes in these preservice teachers, with no differences between genders. The creativity of these preservice teachers is evident in the variety of approaches to the topic in the different movies proposed. We can conclude that the ecofeminist topic is relevant in the classroom because it contributes to enhancing the ethical debate and driving the teaching-learning process in an interdisciplinary manner, perfectly aligned with the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development.

A Holistic Approach to Education for Sustainability: Ecofeminism as a Tool to Enhance Sustainability Attitudes in Pre-service Teachers

Abstract To achieve an effective Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), teachers should possess appropriate sustainability attitudes to transmit those values to their future students. In this article, a holistic educational intervention around the ecofeminist movement is described and its impact on the sustainability attitudes of 188 pre-service teachers is assessed. The quantitative results with a validated questionnaire reveal an initial high level of sustainability awareness and a statistically significant increase in the environmental dimension after the educational intervention. In addition, the qualitative analysis of the stories and activities for children prepared by the students in a process of didactic transposition confirms their ability to effectively integrate different competencies around a topic. Due to their status as future educators in the early stages of the system, pre-service teachers are relevant to disseminate a holistic view of ESD and we can conclude that ecofeminism is a thematic node that integrates key concept and attitudinal content to achieve that goal.

What is the Practical Significance of the Relation between Gender Equality and Ecological Balance?

Nowadays it is indisputable that climate change is a global phenomenon. On the one hand, there have recently been ever-increasing efforts by the international non-governmental institutions (NGOs), including the European Union (EU), to combat climate change either through mitigation or adaptation methods or both. On the other hand, the whole “planet rescue package” is integrated within a “greener” capitalist system, from the governance of which the environmental damages actually originate as a result of the maximum possible capital accumulation at the expense of the weaker. Climate change is thus involved in a vicious circle and produces as well as maintains social discriminations. Gender inequality as a form of social discriminations is therefore involved in the same vicious circle of the neoliberal way of addressing societal problems. Recognizing the great spectrum of analyzing climate change policy within a political structure, namely capitalism, only the connection between the devastating dominance of the human over nature and the still existing marginalization of women in the modern era will be elaborated. The aim of this paper is therefore to outline and analyze the basic framework of the eco-feminist movement about the interrelated environmental degradation and the underestimation towards women, as the feminine gender symbolizes nature.

David Mitchell’ın Bulut Atlasında antroposen çağının ekofeminist incelemesi

David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas is a dazzling postmodern work of fiction which includes six different narratives in six chapters, taking place in six time periods and locations. From the first chapter to the last, the narratives span over five centuries of human whereabouts on earth. Though disparate these chapters may seem at first sight, they are actually interrelated as a whole. In holistic terms, Cloud Atlas represents a brief survey of the anthropocene age, constructed directly from the human activities on this planet. To that end, ecofeminism is a sub-theory of ecocriticism which emerged within the second wave of ecocriticism. The theory mainly defends that the oppression of women and nature is interconnected. This article focuses on how Mitchell reflects women and nature in a multi-layered narrative that evolves in a course of five hundred years. Similarities between the conditions of women and the natural environment are thereby compared and exposed. While maintaining this, the article focuses on three main chapters of the novel which are the initial, middle and the last chapters. Finally, these chapters which represent the initiation, zenith and aftermath of the anthropocene age are analyzed in detail with references to the novel. Finally, it has been concluded that Cloud Atlas ascribes a vital role to women, within the context of the ecofeminist movement, to lead the way for the foundation of an alternative environmental philosophy which will ensure an ecocentric, new world order.

Between Cities and Mountains: A Look at Contemporary Ecofeminist Cinema in Italy

ABSTRACT Starting with a brief overview of the ecofeminist movement and ecocinema, this article provides some theoretical coordinates to contextualise contemporary Italian ecofeminist cinema. Films such as Quatriglio’s Con il fiato sospeso (2013), Mangini and Barbanente’s In viaggio con Cecilia (2013), and Kauber’s In questo mondo (2018) exemplify some features of ecofeminist cinema. They intervene in local realities whose history and geopolitical specificity speaks to global collective efforts. Divorced from an anthropomorphic impetus, their common goal is both raising consciousness about social, political, and environmental issues and suggesting new forms of respect for all human and nonhuman beings. They display the feminist notion of ‘the relational approach’ and privilege Slow Cinema’s techniques. They attempt to blur boundaries between genders and genres, thus attuning viewers to the subtle ways in which binary oppositions –humans–nonhumans, men–women, nature–culture, North–South, wealth–poverty, happiness–unhappiness – continue to work at the core of patriarchy and capitalism.

Centering gender on the agenda for environmental education research

ABSTRACTThe environmental education movement developed in the 1970s at the same time as the environment movement, the feminist movement and the ecofeminist movement. However, while environmental education feels a close affinity with the environment movement the relationship with the (eco)feminist movement in environmental education research has been less than robust. Although there was some feminist environmental education research in the 1990s and 2000s, until the two recent special issues of The Journal of Environmental Education there had been a prolonged, even a deafening, silence around gender, eco/feminism and environmental education research. This article traces the history of feminist environmental education research across this and other environmental education research journals to argue that it is time for gender to be much higher on the agenda of environmental education researchers and of journals if we are to better achieve gender equality and more fully address the climate emergency within the field.

ECOFEMINISM AND ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY

In the context of climate change and rising risk of environmental crisis caused by pollution and unsustainable exploitation of natural resources, the concept of environmental security, primarily defined as the resilience of countries and individuals to the challenges of environmental degradation, is rapidly obtaining the interest of general public and experts from various scientific disciplines. However, it seems that the gender aspect of security in general, and particularly of environmental security has not been given the amount of attention it deserves until recently. Thanks to the ecofeminist movement, based upon the idea that women are more closely related to nature than men and more vulnerable and susceptible to the negative impacts of environmental degradation (especially those emerging as the consequences of pollution and climate change), the role of women in the improvement of environmental security through participation in decision-making processes in legislation and public policy making is finally being recognised. The aim of this paper is to analyse the modern concept of environmental security as well as the evolution and contemporary discourses within ecofeminist movements and to explain the link between them, i.e., the contribution of ecofeminism to the shift in the approach to environmental security in the sense of taking into consideration the rights and interests of women as more common victims of negative environmental impacts as well as their potentials as relevant stake holders in this field.

Vegetarianism: Ethical, Ecofeminist and Biopolitical Perspective

The position of animals in theoretical imagination and society stems from the historical naturalization of basic epistemological and ontological categories, the complex socio-cultural genesis of concepts whose assumptions are not easy to unravel nowadays. The given understanding of subjectivity and sociability entails nature as its opposite, but also that all other categories in border classification areas are a priori subordinate to human interests and goals. The debates that took place during the 1970s and 1980s, when it comes to animal rights movements and the ecofeminist movement, have made some sort of confusion in the then accepted approach to this issue. However, only recently has the current biopolitical theory, by posing the question of human determinism and taking into account the conceptual breakthroughs related to the boundary between biological species, established in modern discourse, brought significant innovations in the debate on vegetarianism. In order to explain the shifts that can be made in the debate in the area that opened up with biopolitical theory, two arguments that have dominated the debate for a long time - ethically and ecofeministically – are subjected to critical analysis. While the ethical and ecofeminist standpoints are focused on the categories of political subjectivity and anthropocentric assumptions, biopolitics raises the issue of overcoming the deep ambivalence of normative and practical solutions that characterize the human attitude towards animals and their planned and systematized killing for the requirements of the food industry.

Ecofeminist Pragmatism of Female Founders in Sociology as Source of Women Empowerment in Academia and Society

First female philosopher Hypathia and her tragic death is less known while as Minoan era of governing the island Crete represents the egalitarian society, in which females were equal as men, in profession, life and family. It is necessary to conduct the deconstruction and demystification of patriarchal approaches to society and education, in order to form contemporary sociological theory involving the female authors and their accomplishments. The eco feminist movement was founded during the radical and turbulent social changes of the early 1980s. The aftermath of war, global environmental movements and minority rights movements have joined forces to create significant subversion and an imitative position towards the patriarchal based theories. Major sociologist author and pragmatist, Nobel Prize Winner, who gained doctoral degree from Yale University and organized Hull House project for investigating the immigrant behaviour, influenced the eco feminist pragmatism of the Charlotte P. Gilman, and Caroline Bartlett Crane. This position is later on found in works of famous neo eco feminist and sociologists such as Ariell Salleh, Marija Geiger Zeman, Ivanka Buzov, and their ancestors, authors from different fields such as Val Plumwood, Karen J. Warren, Martha Kheel, Yenestra King, Francoise d’Eaubonne and Vandana Shiva. These authors have written about the ecological feminist movement, drawing attention to the need for scientific cognition of the way in which the logic of domination and oppression of women and nature is institutionalized. T is necessary to conduct the deconstruction and demystification of patriarchal approaches to society and education, in order to form contemporary sociological theory involving the female authors and their accomplishments.

Ecofeminismo: una nueva manera de mirar la naturaleza

The attempt to eradicate violence in all its forms, which defines our world, has been reflected in the ecofeminist movement. From different perspectives it has tried to link the two areas, feminism and ecology, and study the many implications involved in this relationship. In this article, some of them are discussed from an interdisciplinary perspective and support is given to a clearly personalist and non constructivist ecofeminism.

Ecofeminismo e comunidade sustentável

O movimento de ecovilas representa uma alternativa de organização social de baixo impacto sobre os componentes naturais e de novos valores condizentes com o bem-estar de vida social. O movimento ecofeminista, por sua vez, sustenta que a defesa do meio ambiente constitui parte essencial do movimento feminista. Esta pesquisa investiga se, na organização e dinâmica da ecovila, os princípios do ecofeminismo estão presentes e se contribuem para a sustentabilidade ambiental da comunidade nas dimensões social, econômica e dos componentes naturais. Para efetuar esta avaliação, tomou-se como base empírica a Ecovila de Piracanga, localizada no município de Maraú, litoral sul da Bahia, Brasil. Os resultados sustentam o pressuposto de que o ecofeminismo tem estreita relação com a sustentabilidade do meio ambiente, em nível local, e apontam para a possibilidade de soluções inovadoras no relacionamento entre sociedade e natureza

Las mujeres de Greenham Common: El "sí se pudo" de los 80

Ecofeminism is a stream of environmental thinking of feminist approach which appeared in Europe in the last third of the twentieth century, and which is characterized by the diversity of sub-currents in the socio-cultural, political and activist fields, among others. Ecofeminism proposes that both the feminist movement and the environmental movement have common goals such as equal rights or the abolition of hierarchies, and that they work together in building theoretical and practical alternatives, as it has occurred in some previous occasion. It is precisely in this context that we can place the women of Greenham Common, whom will be the ones that focus our attention on this article. We must not forget the experience of these women who opposed, for years, the U.S. military base with nuclear missiles at the base of the same name in England. Consequently, what we will be analyzing in depth throughout this article is the role played by this group of women in England along the eighties. We shall study their actions, how, where and why, but mostly, we will focus our attention on the consequences that their actions might have later on both for themselves and for the eco-feminist movement itself and society in general.

Mercè Aguera-Cabo Approach in Brazilian Law Sustainable

This article proposes to bring contributions from the work Gender, Power and Values ​​in Local Environmental Conflicts by Merce Aguera Cabo towards an approach between law and sustainability in the context of employability in Brazil. Sustainable development seeks, among other items, a balance between environmental protection and economic development and served as the basis for the formulation of Agenda 21 - to which over 170 countries committed themselves - a concept that had definitely built as a rule during the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, the Earth Summit 1992 (Rio-92), in Rio de Janeiro. Although there are many similarities between the concepts of Sustainable Development and Eco-development, it is said to be that a set of goals for the creation of a world, and it is from the present work a direct survey developed by Aguera Merce-Cable that can analyze ecological movements and other movements in an impartial view of several countries that the author observes. In this context, the ecofeminist movement presents important elements to understanding this relationship, contributing to overcome the simplistic views. This idea gave rise to sustainable feminist discussion within the legal framework that, in many respects, it is advantageous to have employees in companies concerned with the environment by being a woman, supporting some statistics that in Brazil are 39% women in the labor market.

Feminism, ecofeminism, and the maternal archetype: Motherhood as a feminine universal

This essay analyzes the use of the maternal archetype in ecofeminist rhetoric. The maternal archetype is a rhetorically powerful image that is invoked to motivate the protection and sustenance of the environment. However, the use of motherhood as a unifying principle confounds womanhood with motherhood, and fails to honor the complexity of motherhood as an ideologically and socially constructed institution. A gender‐neutral metaphor may more effectively serve both the environmental and feminist interests of the ecofeminist movement. This analysis leads to the conclusion that invoking archetypal images uncritically may serve to obscure alternative cultural, ideological, and political values.