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Ecofeminism as Politics
Nature, Marx and the Postmodern
Ecofeminism as Politics
Nature, Marx and the Postmodern
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Ecofeminism as Politics is now a classic, being the first work to offer a joined-up framework for green, socialist, feminist and postcolonial thinking, showing how these have been held back by conceptual confusions over gender. Originally published in 1997, it argues that ecofeminism reaches beyond contemporary social movement ideologies and practices, by prefiguring a political synthesis of four-revolutions-in-one: ecology is feminism is socialism is postcolonial struggle. Ariel Salleh addresses discourses on class, science, the body, culture and nature, and her innovative reading of Marx converges the philosophy of internal relations with the organic materiality of everyday life.
This new edition features forewords by Indian ecofeminist Vandana Shiva and US philosopher John Clark, a new introduction, and a recent conversation between Salleh and younger scholar activists.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Vandana Shiva
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Part I: Women and Ecopolitics
1. Ecology Reframes History
2. Ecofeminist Actions
Part II: An Embodied Materialism
3. Body Logic: 1/0 Culture
4. Man/Woman=Nature
5. For and Against Marx
6. The Deepest Contradiction
Part III: Making Postcolonial Sense
7. When Feminism Fails
8. Terra Nullius
9. A Barefoot Epistemology
10. As Energy/Labour Flows
11. Agents of Complexity
12. Beyond Virtual Movements
Interview: Embodied Materialism in Action
Product details
Published | 15 Aug 2017 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 2nd |
Extent | 402 |
ISBN | 9781786990419 |
Imprint | Zed Books |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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A powerful work of scholarship that will continue to shape our thinking, debates, and actions concerning inequalities, ecology, and justice for generations to come.'
Journal of World-Systems Research
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Ecofeminism as Politics has pioneered the integration of social movement debates, and its dialectical approach viewing these concerns as internally related is pathbreaking. Ariel Salleh is a must-read authority on how to challenge capitalism in theory and as practice in the twenty-first century'.
Adam David Morton, University of Sydney, author of Revolution and State in Modern Mexico
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One of the most original and important thinkers in the international political ecology field; Ariel Salleh unveils the blind spot at the root of contemporary ecological and social crises and her lucid call for an 'embodied materialism' enlightens like no other framework I know.
Arturo Escobar, anthropologist, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author of Designs for the Pluriverse
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Ecofeminism as Politics makes a powerful critique of both anthropocentrism and the androcentric thinking that permeates scholarship and activist discourses on the Left. Its social movement synthesis is an essential read for those seeking solutions to our deepening systemic crises.
Jackie Smith, Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, and editor of the Journal of World-Systems Research
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In a feisty attack on the view of feminism and environmentalism as single issue, disconnected movements, Ariel Salleh convincingly argues that ecofeminist politics will be the strongest force in the world against environmental depredation, economic exploitation and cultural globalisation.
Praise for the First Edition, Joan Martinez-Alier, editor of Ecologica Politica and author of Ecological Economics
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This challenge to feminists, Marxists, and environmentalists, is sustained by a deep knowledge of struggles on the ground by women's, worker's, indigenous, and ecological groups. As integrative political actions are called for, their effectiveness depends on multi-dimensional theory; and here is Salleh's contribution.
Lau Kin Chi, Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, and founding member of the Global University for Sustainability

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