Caring Communities for Radical Change: What Can Feminist Political Ecology Bring to Degrowth?

  1. Barca, Stefania 2
  2. Di Chiro, Giovanna 3
  3. Harcourt, Wendy 4
  4. Iengo, Ilenia 2
  5. Kotsila, Panagiota 2
  6. Kulkarni, Seema 5
  7. Leonardi, Irene 6
  8. Sato, Chizu 1
  1. 1 Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
  2. 2 University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  3. 3 Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA
  4. 4 International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Hague, The Netherlands
  5. 5 SOPPECOM, Pune, India
  6. 6 IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands
Libro:
Contours of Feminist Political Ecology

ISSN: 2730-7328 2730-7336

ISBN: 9783031209277 9783031209284

Ano de publicación: 2023

Páxinas: 177-206

Tipo: Capítulo de libro

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-20928-4_8 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso aberto editor

Resumo

In this chapter, we share the insights of feminist political ecology (FPE) for degrowth, building from the debates on “caring communities for radical change” at the 8th International Degrowth Conference in August 2021. We discuss how FPE links to the principles of degrowth as an academic and activist movement and why it is necessary to take feminist political ecology perspectives on care and caring communities in resisting, questioning, and counteracting the structural racial, gender, and wider social inequalities that uphold and are perpetuated by growth-dependent economic systems. As we critically reflect on the experiences of paid versus unpaid, collectivised versus feminised care work, we argue that care is crucial to social and ecological reproduction in order to build just, sustainable and convivial societies.

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