Foreword by John Clark 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
Updates Ariel Salleh’s landmark exploration of the relationship between feminism and ecology.
Ariel Salleh is a founding member of the Global University for Sustainability, Hong Kong; Visiting Professor in Culture, Philosophy & Environment, Nelson Mandela University; 2013 Senior Fellow in Post-Growth Societies, Friedrich Schiller University Jena: and Research Associate in Political Economy, University of Sydney.
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*
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*
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*
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*
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*
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*
Neoliberalism has not eliminated poverty, nor discrimination of
women, nor exploitation of the Earth; neither economists,
politicians, nor theoreticians know a way out. Marxists ignore both
nature's and women's contribution to the production of wealth, but
as ecofeminists show, this is the lost key to building Another
World.
*Maria Mies, ecofeminist activist and author of Patriarchy and
Accumulation on a World Scale*
I place Ariel Salleh’s scholarship in the front rank with the work
of other socialist ecofeminists such as Vandana Shiva or
ecofeminists generally like Rosemary Ruether and Susan Griffin.
*Praise for the First Edition, Max Oelschlaeger, philosopher,
author of Caring for Creation and editor of Postmodern
Environmental Ethics*
Ariel Salleh's explanation of how "environmental struggle is
socialist struggle is feminist struggle" sets the standard for
intersectional study of the crises we face in nature, economy and
society - from global climate to household. In her praxis
epistemology and labours for repair of the humanity-nature
metabolism, we find the most passionate, humbling truths.
*Patrick Bond, political economist, University of Witwatersrand
School of Governance, South Africa*
The combination of eco-socialist, feminist and decolonial
perspectives is analytically and politically thrilling. Ecofeminism
as Politics offers an integrative understanding of our world, its
multiple processes and crises, and possibilities for change.
*Ulrich Brand, political scientist, University of Vienna, and
co-author of Theorizing the Imperial Mode of Living*
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