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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Main Authors: Salleh, A.
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Publishing House Discourse-P 2022-04-01
Series:Дискурс Пи
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Online Access: http://madipi.ru/images/uploads/62-83_Саллех.pdf
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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
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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
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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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