Feminist Political Ecology, Crises and Resistance

Abstract

Planetary threats to our very existence abound and are becoming more urgent. These threats continue to be unequally experienced, building on regimes of inequality, historically rooted in the development of capitalism and of modernity. This planetary crisis is also a crisis of the everyday, where time, space and violence coalesce to undermine social reproduction and our very existence. The resistance to the capitalist threat to life on earth comes at a time of the rise of populist right wing politics and the constricting spaces of democratic mobilisation, eroding social contract and social infrastructures, needing new imaginaries of life and living, of collective rather than individual mitigations and new strategies of addressing ‘loss and damage’ wreaked by the long history of colonialism, extractivism and capitalism, these growing planetary threats. What do feminist perspectives, informed by materialist concerns of social reproduction, democratic approaches to resistance that pay attention to both gender and race, bring the debates, activism and imaginaries challenging our ecological crises? This panel addresses this important question.

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