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Ariel Salleh [Editor]: Eco-sufficiency and Global Justice: Women Write Political Ecology |
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Edited by  Ariel Salleh
ISBN: 9780745328645
Format: Hardcover
Published: January 2009
As the twenty-first century faces a crisis of democracy and sustainability, this book brings academics and alternative globalisation activists into discussion.
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.
With in-depth analyses of climate change, MDGs, financial meltdown, and new theoretical concepts for understanding humanity-nature links, this books is essential reading for students of political economy, ethics, global studies, sociology, women's studies, geography and environmental science.
"Inspired by the diversity and pluralism of ecofeminism [this book] is a must read for anyone committed to building alternatives." –VANDANA SHIVA, Director of the Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, New Delhi; author, activist, and winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize.
"By far and away the best collection of ecological feminist writing I have found." –RICHARD NORGAARD, Professor of Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley
"The lessons from this outstanding book are clear. Economic and ecological practices conducted by women and other marginalised groupings must be recognised as a source of new theoretical understandings, critical for social and environmental justice to be achieved." –PETER DICKENS, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge
"These new and incisive perspectives put forth a transformative agenda for global justice. And in doing so, the collection draws all of us – activists and academics – closer to a common political denominator in the search for a true alternative to globalisation." –LIM LI CHING, leading international biodiversity activist, Third World Network, Kuala Lumpur
AUTHOR DETAILS
Ariel Salleh is a researcher in Political Science at the University of Sydney, author of Ecofeminism as Politics (1997) and co-editor of the influential international journal Capitalism Nature Socialism. Her writings on ecology, feminism, development and ecology are widely debated. She helped found The Greens in Australia and in 1992 worked on the Earth Summit with Women's and Environmental and Development Organisation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 - Ecological Debt : Embodied Debt
Ariel Salleh
Triangulating political ecology
The meta-industrial labour class
PART I - HISTORIES
Extract: Veronika Bennholdt Thomsen and Maria Mies,
The Subsistence Perspective
2 - The Devaluation of Women's Labour
Silvia Federici
Population and the disciplining of women
Reproductive labour is natural and historical
Women's productive labour as 'non-work'
The invention of 'femininity' and the 'housewife'
Sex, race, and class in the colonies
3 - Who is the ‘He' of He Who Decides in Economic Discourse?
Ewa Charkiewicz
Economics as a seriality of truth games
How to train a wife to manage an estate
Sovereignty and patriarchy as dispositif
A national familial household
Sovereign capital and abandonment
Patria potestas, cura materna
4 - The Diversity Matrix: Relationship and Complexity
Susan Hawthorne
Living as part of the whole
Indigenous, feminist, and ecological economics
Particularity, concreteness, and place
Eco-social systems and 'life'
Towards a wild economics
PART II - MATTER
Extract: Carolyn Merchant, Earthcare
5 - Development for Some is Violence for Others
Nalini Nayak
Fishing for export or livelihood?
Technologies of abandonment
Patriarchal cultures old and new
6 - Nuclearised Bodies and Militarised Space
Zohl de Ishtar
One bomb vapourised an entire island
Radioactive ecosystem: human guinea pigs
Nuclear pollution and cancer deaths
Economic, social, and cultural fallout
Crimes against humanity
7 - Women and Deliberative Water Management
Andrea Moraes and Ellie Perkins
Women, feminism, and NGOs
Ecofeminist and transformative leadership
Deliberative democracy in practice
PART III - GOVERNANCE
Extract: Hilkka Pietila, 'Ontological Presuppositions'
8 - Mainstreaming Trade and Millennium Development Goals?
Gig Francisco and Peggy Antrobus
Engendering neoliberal policies
Between religious and economic fundamentalism
Equality and women's empowerment
Poverty is embedded in gender relations
9 - Policy and the Measure of Woman
Marilyn Waring
Do women count for nothing?
Real life: alternative models
The Index of Sustainable Welfare (ISEW)
The Human Development Index (HDI)
The Genuine Progress Indicators (GPI)
People setting their own indicators
Interpreting data in non-monetary terms
The Alberta GPI
10 - Feminist Ecological Economics in Theory and Practice
Sabine U. O'Hara
Reclaiming neglected contexts
Making the invisible visible
Methods reflect power structures
Feminist ecological economics
PART IV - ENERGY
Extract: Teresa Brennan, Exhausting Modernity
11 - Who Pays for Kyoto Protocol? Selling Oxygen and Selling Sex
Ana Isla
Enclosing the forest to sell oxygen
Natural capital or superorganism?
The crisis of gatherers and small farmers
The crisis of women and children
Resisting narrow environmentalism
12 - How Global Warming is Gendered
Meike Spitzner
Common but differentiated responsibilities?
From procedural to substantive change
A chance for gender post 2012?
13 - Women and the Abuja Declaration for Energy Sovereignty
Leigh Brownhill and Terisa E. Turner
Neoliberal approaches to women and climate change
Gendered, ethnicised, class struggle
Women's 'gift' to humanity
Big Oil and state violence
The Abuja Declaration
PART V - MOVEMENT
Extract: Vandana Shiva, Earth Democracy
14 Ecofeminist Political Economy and the Politics of Money
Mary Mellor
Dualist economics
The precarity of global capitalism
Why growth is made 'an imperative'
Challenging the money system
15 - Saving Women: Saving the Commons
Leo Podlashuc
The semantics of savings
Community and autonomy
Savings as praxis
International mobilisation
Saving women
Conscientisation and empowerment
16 - From Eco-Sufficiency to Global Justice
Ariel Salleh
Reproductive labour as leverage
An embodied materialism
Capacity building for the global North
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