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Practising Feminist Political Ecologies : Moving Beyond the 'Green Economy'.
Title:
Practising Feminist Political Ecologies : Moving Beyond the 'Green Economy'.
Author:
Harcourt, Wendy.
ISBN:
9781783600892
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (336 pages)
Series:
Gender, Development and Environment
Contents:
Front Cover -- About the Editors -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Are We 'Green' Yet? and the Violence of Asking Such a Question -- Encountering Shared Histories -- Where We Situate the Book -- Connecting Insights, Contentions and Conversations -- Staying with the Troubles -- Trouble 1: Challenging Neoliberal Logic and Narrow Analyses of Neoliberalism -- Trouble 2: Sustaining Livelihoods, Engaging Technologies and Queering Ecologies -- Trouble 3: Appropriation and Naming and Claiming FPE -- Trouble 4: Naturecultures, Response-able Encounters and Making Coalitions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Section One: Positioning Feminist Political Ecology -- 1: A Situated View of Feminist Political Ecology from My Networks, Roots and Territories -- Introduction -- Early Seeds of FPE -- Another Slice of Space and Time: Kenya 1983-93 -- FPE Emerging in Place -- The Paradox of FPE and My Place in It -- The Decolonial Turn -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2: Contesting Green Growth, Connecting Care, Commons and Enough -- Introduction -- Feminist Political Ecology Meets Feminist Political Economics -- Green Growth and the Economization of Nature -- Inclusive Liberalism and Value Creation -- Inclusion and Neoliberal Empowerment -- Othering and Exclusion -- Great Transformation or Small Transitions - A European Perspective -- Labour and the Logic of Care -- Commoning and Commons -- Sufficiency and the Culture of Enough -- Conclusions: Connecting Care, Commons and Enough -- Notes -- References -- 3: Life, Nature and Gender Otherwise: Feminist Reflections and Provocations from the Andes -- Openings -- Nature, Gender and the Modern/Colonial/Imperial Matrices of Power -- (En)genderings and Naturings -- Transcendental Shifts, Transformative Horizons and (En)gendering(s) of the Otherwise.

Challenges and Contradictions -- Of Relationalities, Feminisms and Pluri-Interversalizations -- Moments, Movements and Openings That Help Conclude -- Notes -- References -- Section Two: Rethinking Feminist Political Ecology -- 4: Feminist Political Ecology and the (Un)making of 'Heroes': Encounters in Mozambique -- Introduction -- Reading and Teaching Post-Colonial Critiques of 'Great White Saviours' -- Responding to Persistent Desires for Heroes -- Research in Practice -- Heroic Anxieties -- Concluding Thoughts -- Notes -- References -- 5: Hegemonic Waters and Rethinking Natures Otherwise -- Introduction: Lived Ecologies and Enlivened Feminist Political Ecologies -- Neoliberalization of Nature, and Working Towards Counter-Hegemonies -- FPE as a Critical Intellectual-Political Site to Think Through 'Alternatives' -- Building Post-Colonial, Decolonial and Feminist-Ecological-Inspired Alternatives to Neoliberalized Environmental Governance -- Note -- References -- 6: Challenging the Romance with Resilience: Communities, Scale and Climate Change -- Introduction -- Scale -- Resilience: The New Holy Grail of Climate Change Adaptation -- Resilience in Nepal and Scotland -- 'It's How We Do Things': Community in Scotland -- The Experts Taught Us All We Know: Nepal -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Section Three: Living Feminist Political Ecology -- 7: A New Spelling of Sustainability: Engaging Feminist-Environmental Justice Theory and Practice -- Introduction: A Socio-Ecological Genealogy -- Environmental Justice: An Ecological Politics of Articulation -- Seres Puentes: Bridge-Building as Feminist Ecological Politics.

Practising Naturecultures and Feminist Ecocosmopolitics in Environmental Studies -- A Course on Urban Ecology -- A Course on Sustainable Community Action -- Epilogue: Storms and Peace -- Notes -- References -- 8: The Slips and Slides of Trying to Live Feminist Political Ecology -- Ontological Politics -- From Where Do I Speak? -- Feminist Environmental Activism in Australia -- Global Environmental Activism at the UN -- Collusions and Delusions -- Labours of Love in Bolsena, Italy -- Place-Based Globalism -- Further Wanderings: Ecofeminism -- Will We Be Able to Love Them? -- Notes -- References -- 9: Knowledge About, Knowledge With: Dilemmas of Researching Lives, Nature and Genders Otherwise -- Introduction -- 'Ustedes Somos Nosotras': Our Commitments -- The Power of Words -- Research Practices to Transform Ecologically Violent Contexts -- On Bodies, Violence and Technologies -- Social Locations and Research -- Notes -- References -- 10: World-Wise Otherwise Stories for Our Endtimes: Converations on Queer Ecologies -- Introductions -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
A new, politically timely and engaging text that puts feminist political ecology back on the map.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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