Isla A. (Ed.) Climate Chaos: Ecofeminism and the Land Question

Toronto, Canada: INANNA Publications & Education Inc., 2019. — 300 p. — ISBN: 9781771335935.Today's social and ecological crises, which threaten the preservation of life on our planet, require our attention to understand the dynamics of patriarchy and capitalism, as well as to unmask "answers" or false solutions that obscure, perpetuate, and even worsen the current situation. Ecofeminists have critically examined several of the underlying assumptions of the capitalist-patriarchal conceptual framework, such as the promotion of the destructive transformation of nature, hierarchical thinking, the encouragement of dualism, the enforcement of the logic of domination over life, even the hatred for life itself, and speciesism.Yet ecofeminism's attempts to call attention to and stop the destruction of the planet have not yet been able to tackle the growing problem of climate change, which is threatening not only life on earth, but the earth and all her "living systems." Climate change and extreme weather are exacerbating existing social inequalities and political conflicts globally. Climate justice is the starting point from which we can begin to build the kind of local and international solidarity that is needed to address climate change and transform the socio-economic hierarchies that caused it. This volume re-examines existing analyses from this new and much broader point of view in theory and practise, and points to the need for a new concept of nature and the earth as a living being, a cosmic being, so that it is the life of the earth herself that today must be protected.Climate Chaos: Mother Earth Under Threat
Money or Life? What Makes Us Really Rich?
Deconstructing Necrophilia: Eco/feminist Perspectives on the Perversion of Death and Love
The Guardians of Conga Lagoons: Defending Land, Water and Freedom in Peru
Ecofeminism, Commons and Climate Justice
Finite Disappointments or Infinite Hope: Working Through Tensions Within Transnational Feminist Movements
Sasipihkeyihtamowin: Niso Nehiyaw iskwewak
Climate Change and Environmental Racism: What Payments for Ecosystem Services
Means for Peasants and Indigenous People
Biotechnology and Biopiracy: Plant-based Contraceptives in the Americas and the
(Mis)management of Nature
Building Food Sovereignty through Ecofeminism in Kenya: From Capitalist to Commoners†Agricultural Value Chains
Monsanto and the Patenting of Life: Primitive Accumulation in the Twenty-First Century
“I Know My Own Body … They Liedâ€: Race, Knowledge, and Environmental Sexism
in Institute, wv and Old Bhopal, India
Water is Worth More than Gold: Ecofeminism and Gold Mining in the Dominican Republic.
Indigenous Andoas Uprising:
Defending Territorial Integrity and Autonomy in Peru
The Greeningâof Costa Rica: A War Against Subsistence
Earth Love: Finding Our Way Back Home