Climate change is already under way with unpredictable consequences. Evidence of changes to the earth's physical, chemical and biological processes is obvious everywhere. Greenhouse gas emissions have increased the carbon cycle concentration in the atmosphere. In the past, half of this carbon was stored in forests, while the other half was removed by oceans, but with deforestation and warming oceans, oxygen is at its lowest breathable point.Climate change deepens ethical issues explored and discussed by ecofeminists around the world. This book describes the academic field of material ecofeminism, provides an overview of the land question, and explores how reigning discourses of sustainable development have led to a commodification of nature and have effaced the multiple visions, uses, and relationships of local human communities. The articles in this book are spaces of political projects and values that nurture anticapitalist, antipatriarchal, and anticolonial oppressions. We argue that the centrality of resisting the colonization of Mother Earth and Pachamama is supreme.--$cProvided by publisher.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2019.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 304.2082
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781771335966 1771335939
- LCCN
- HQ1194
- LCCN Item number
- C55 2019eb
- Modifying agency
- DLC
- Original cataloging agency
- NLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (x, 341 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00240378 (OCoLC)1084977526 (CaOOCEL)457113
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- YDX
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title Page 2
- Copyright 3
- Dedication 4
- Table of Contents 6
- Acknowledgements 10
- Introduction 12
- On Ecofeminism 24
- 1. Climate Chaos 26
- 2. Money or Life? 48
- 3. Deconstructing Necrophilia 93
- 4. The Guardians of the Conga Lagoon 105
- 5. Ecofeminism, Commons, and Climate Justice 136
- 6. Finite Disappointments or Infinite Hope? 158
- On the Land Question 174
- 7. Sasipihkeyihtamowin 176
- 8. Climate Change and Environmental Racism 197
- 9. Biotechnology and Biopiracy 216
- 10. Building Food Sovereignty through Ecofeminism in Kenya 230
- 11. Monsanto and the Patenting of Life 241
- 12. “I Know About My Own Body … They Lied” 255
- 13. “Water is Worth More Than Gold” 274
- 14. Indigenous Andoas Uprising 294
- On Sustainable Development 320
- 15. The “Greening” of Costa Rica 322
- 16. Earth Love 341
- Contributor Notes 349
