Feminist Political Ecology and the Economics of Care: In Search of Economic Alternatives

Cover
Half Title
Endorsement Page
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction: Conversations on care in Feminist Political Economy and Ecology
	Introduction: more questions than answers
	Diverse meanings of care
	Going beyond capitalism
	Gender, sustainability and post-development
	A shared vision?
	References
Chapter 2 Nature, care and gender: Feminist dilemmas
	Central concepts of Feminist Political Economy: Social reproduction and the care economy
	Ecofeminism and Queer Ecologies: Feminist analyses of socially constructed relations between society and nature
	Feminist Political Ecology – a promising future for a strong feminist critique of capitalism and for creating economic alternatives
	References
Chapter 3 White settler colonial scientific fabulations on otherwise narratives of care
	Introduction
	What we can learn from ecofeminism
	White settler narratives and erasures
	Feminist political ecology in conversation with white settler narratives
	Caring for non-human others over generations
	Learning to tell Gaia stories
	Interpreting histories
	Feminist imaginaries and scientific fabulations
	Natureculture otherwise
	Conclusion: Differential belonging
	Notes
	References
Chapter 4 Environmental feminisms: A story of different encounters
	Introduction: Living in the ‘Anthropocene’
	The Anthropocene and environmentalism
	Why environmentalism needs feminism (and vice versa)
	Ecofeminism: Women and nature
	Feminist Political Ecology
	Feminist new materialism and posthumanism
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 5 Climate change, natural disasters and the spillover effects on unpaid care: The case of Super-typhoon Haiyan
	Introduction
	Conceptual framework: Relationship between climate change, natural disasters and care work
	The case of Super-typhoon Haiyan
	Health expenditures faced by affected households
	Concluding remarks
	Notes
	References
Chapter 6 Care-full Community Economies
	Introduction
	Common threads: CEC and FPE
	Who cares?
	What do we care for?
	How do we care?
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 7 Care as wellth: Internalising care by democratising money
	The ecofeminist critique of the externalisation of care
	Internalising care
	Social money
	Internalisation through a basic income
	Privatising money and feminising the state
	Where does money come from?
	Reclaiming money from the market
	Care as wellth
	Democratising money
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 8 Diverse ethics for diverse economies: Considering the ethics of embodiment, difference and inter-corporeality at Kufunda
	Introduction
	Community and diverse economies
	Unpacking the diverse ethics of community economies
	The community economy of Kufunda Village
	Concluding our journey with diverse ethics: Contributions and questions
	Notes
	References
Chapter 9 Striving towards what we do not know yet: Living Feminist Political Ecology in Toronto’s food network
	Introduction
	Embodied gendered economies
	Living feminist ecological citizenship
	Restructuring food and place
	Striving towards what we do not know yet: Feminist food politics in Toronto
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 10 ‘The garden has improved my life’: Agency and food sovereignty of women in urban agriculture in Nairobi
	The politics and cultures of food sovereignty
	Agency and the gendered urban landscape in Nairobi
	African Indigenous Vegetables as gendered and place-based cultivation practice
	Nairobi’s policy and urban planning in urban agriculture
	Methodological disclosure
	Between conformity and creativity: Gender relations in urban agriculture in Nairobi
	Discussion: Urban agriculture as a practice of care, agency and sovereignty
	Notes
	References
Chapter 11 Transnational reconfigurations of re/production and the female body: Bioeconomics, motherhoods and the case of surrogacy in India
	From desire to right: Discourses around one’s own child
	Biopower and the political regime of re/production in India
	Bioeconomies and market efficiency of baby production
	Labour and care extractivism
	New subjectivities and dilemmas
	Perspectives
	Notes
	References
Chapter 12 Menstrual politics in Argentina and diverse assemblages of care
	Introduction
	Feminist Political Ecology
	The ethics of care
	Why looking into menstrual management technologies matters in an analysis of care
	Care for the body, care for the environment and care for the future generations
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 13 Bodies, aspirations and the politics of place: Learning from the women brickmakers of La Ladrillera
	Introduction
	Encounters
	The politics of place
	La Ladrillera
	The brickmaker women and their families
	A methodological note
	The places and the encounters
	First generation
	Second generation
	Third generation
	Three generations of brickmaker women
	Care, the brickmaker women and their practices of the difference
	References
Chapter 14 Towards an urban agenda from a Feminist Political Ecology and care perspective
	Introduction
	Sustainability and sustainable development: A post-development and gender perspective
	Human rights institutions and the new urban agenda
	Feminist Political Ecology and care: Challenging the agenda
	Implementing other views at the local level
	Final reflections
	Notes
	References
Index