Sara Mingorría, Irene Iniesta and Federica Ravera
Monday 2nd July, 10.00-14.00, Cerbère
This workshop focuses on exploring the connections between environmental conflicts generated by increasing economic growth and material extraction and ecofeminisms and feminist political ecologies,
seen as social movementsand as critical perspectives to interpret the world.
We will present and debate the bases of ecofeminisms and feminist political ecologies:
1) the ways in which the oppression of women and the destruction of nature are linked;
2) the denunciation of patriarchal violence against women and other violences against other social groups and non-human forms of life;
3) the alternatives based on environmental and social justice principles, putting life at the center.
We will explore this from different streams: material and constructivist ecofeminisms , queer ecofeminism, and feminist political ecologies and new feminist political ecologies and how they focus on 1) identities, 2) access and dispossession; 2) bodies and matter; and 3) political strategies sufficiency, commoning and a feminist ethics of care.
In this workshop the methodology will be a tool but also a topic itself.
As a feminists were will apply its principles using participatory methodologies.
Brief description of the method
We are going to combine participatory methodologies in order to open a space for learning by experiencing and self-reflecting.
Compulsory readings
Gaard, G. (2011). Ecofeminism Revisited: Rejecting Essentialism and Re-Placing Species in a Material Feminist Environmentalism. Feminist Formations, 23(2), 26–53.