Ecofeminist Strategy. The Politics of Holding Life-On-Earth
The article presents ecological feminism or ecofeminism as the praxis and strategy for holding-together or sustaining the bio-social relations that make possible life-onEarth. In contrast to Liberal feminism, as well as some versions of Marxism, materialist ecofeminism attends to re-productive labor...
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description | The article presents ecological feminism or ecofeminism as the praxis and strategy for holding-together or sustaining the bio-social relations that make possible life-onEarth. In contrast to Liberal feminism, as well as some versions of Marxism, materialist ecofeminism attends to re-productive labor, as distinct from so-called productive labor. The author introduces the term ‘meta-industrial class' to describe the activities of women caring for family, peasant farmers, gatherers, and indigenous peoples living at the economic margins of industrial civilization. Their labor is not only foundational to human existence, it is a prerequisite to productive labor as such. However, the debt owed by modern societies to meta-industrial labor, especially housework, is constantly underestimated. In contrast to the rhetoric of scientific mastery that justifies ever increasing exploitation and consumption of ‘inexhaustible' nature, the immanent logic of meta-industrial labor protects the humanity-nature metabolism. While the linear instrumental reason of modern industry leaves behind disorder and entropy, meta-industrial labor, engaging directly with the Earth's metabolic cycles, restores thermodynamic stability. With its precautionary epistemology learned through experiential labors, the meta-industrial class has no use for the linear logic of productivism. Re-production follows a regenerative circular logic. The author considers this through the prism of water as it mediates the metabolism of humans embodied in nature. By this eco-logic, all phenomena, objects, processes, are inter-related components of a stable organic whole. A materialist ecofeminist political strategy demonstrates the possibility of a de-growth grounded in the empiricism of vernacular science. |
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spelling | doaj.art-dd7213df14584551947350d6edbaf9b42022-12-22T02:55:27ZrusPublishing House Discourse-PДискурс Пи1817-95682022-04-01Т. 19 110.17506/18179568_2022_19_1_62518Ecofeminist Strategy. The Politics of Holding Life-On-EarthSallehA.The article presents ecological feminism or ecofeminism as the praxis and strategy for holding-together or sustaining the bio-social relations that make possible life-onEarth. In contrast to Liberal feminism, as well as some versions of Marxism, materialist ecofeminism attends to re-productive labor, as distinct from so-called productive labor. The author introduces the term ‘meta-industrial class' to describe the activities of women caring for family, peasant farmers, gatherers, and indigenous peoples living at the economic margins of industrial civilization. Their labor is not only foundational to human existence, it is a prerequisite to productive labor as such. However, the debt owed by modern societies to meta-industrial labor, especially housework, is constantly underestimated. In contrast to the rhetoric of scientific mastery that justifies ever increasing exploitation and consumption of ‘inexhaustible' nature, the immanent logic of meta-industrial labor protects the humanity-nature metabolism. While the linear instrumental reason of modern industry leaves behind disorder and entropy, meta-industrial labor, engaging directly with the Earth's metabolic cycles, restores thermodynamic stability. With its precautionary epistemology learned through experiential labors, the meta-industrial class has no use for the linear logic of productivism. Re-production follows a regenerative circular logic. The author considers this through the prism of water as it mediates the metabolism of humans embodied in nature. By this eco-logic, all phenomena, objects, processes, are inter-related components of a stable organic whole. A materialist ecofeminist political strategy demonstrates the possibility of a de-growth grounded in the empiricism of vernacular science. http://madipi.ru/images/uploads/62-83_Саллех.pdf ecofeminism ecology sustainability meta-industrial class humanity-nature metabolism water reproductive/regenerative labor |
spellingShingle | Salleh A. Ecofeminist Strategy. The Politics of Holding Life-On-Earth Дискурс Пи ecofeminism ecology sustainability meta-industrial class humanity-nature metabolism water reproductive/regenerative labor |
title | Ecofeminist Strategy. The Politics of Holding Life-On-Earth |
title_full | Ecofeminist Strategy. The Politics of Holding Life-On-Earth |
title_fullStr | Ecofeminist Strategy. The Politics of Holding Life-On-Earth |
title_full_unstemmed | Ecofeminist Strategy. The Politics of Holding Life-On-Earth |
title_short | Ecofeminist Strategy. The Politics of Holding Life-On-Earth |
title_sort | ecofeminist strategy the politics of holding life on earth |
topic | ecofeminism ecology sustainability meta-industrial class humanity-nature metabolism water reproductive/regenerative labor |
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