Episode 45: Erased, Not Dead: Ecofeminism Against Speciesism (Ecofeminism Revisited - Greta Gaard)

An unfortunately longevous legacy of feminism--particularly its liberal brand from the 1970s--is a willful disregard for and violent erasure of ecological politics, specifically species justice. In her 2011 essay "Ecofeminism Revisited: Rejecting Essentialism and Replacing Species in a Material Feminist Environmentalism", Greta Gaard surveys the rise and fall of ecofeminist scholarship and activism, noting its frequent clashes with the mainstream. Inspired both by her work and its references, as well as our own academic pursuits into the ecological critique of gender liberation, this is a conversation that has been long in the making. We hope that this serves as the first of many necessary entries for a series on "eco-social critique" (we just made that up).

Ecofeminism is not dead!

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References in the episode:

1) Ecofeminism and Climate Justice. Interview with Greta Gaard.

2) Silent Spring by Rachel Carson.

3) Mind your Buffaloby Buffalo Intellectual.

4) #OilYouNeed on Nutrition and Flavour with Swetha Sivakumar.

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