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Literature

Ecofeminism

Vandana Shiva (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandana_Shiva)

– Vandana Shiva (1988). STAYING ALIVE Women, Ecology and Survival in India 
https://ia800408.us.archive.org/4/items/StayingAlive-English-VandanaShiva/Vandana-shiva-stayingAlive.pdf

– Vandana Shiva, Maria Mies (1993). Ecofeminism, Fernwood Publications + Zed Books
In this groundbreaking work, two world-renowned scholars argue that ecological destruction and industrial catastrophes constitute a direct threat to everyday life, the maintenance of which has been made the particular responsibility of women. In both industrialized societies and the developing countries, the new wars the world is experiencing, violent ethnic chauvinisms and the malfunctioning of the economy also pose urgent questions for ecofeminists. Is there a relationship between patriarchal oppression and the destruction of nature in the name of profit and progress? How can women counter the violence inherent in these processes? Should they look to a link between the women’s movement and other social movements? Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva offer a thought-provoking analysis of these and many other issues from a unique North-South perspective. They critique prevailing economic theories, conventional concepts of women’s emancipation, the myth of ‘catching up’ development, the philosophical foundations of modern science and technology, and the omission of ethics when discussing so many questions, including advances in reproductive technology and biotechnology. In constructing their own ecofeminist epistemology and methodology, these two internationally respected feminist environmental activists look to the potential of movements advocating consumer liberation and subsistence production, sustainability and regeneration. They argue for an acceptance of limits and reciprocity and a rejection of exploitation, the endless commoditization of needs, and violence.

Vandana Shiva (1991). Ecology and the Politics of Survival: Conflicts Over Natural Resources in India, UN University Press, Sage Publications

Vandana Shiva, Ingunn Moser (editors), (1995). Biopolitics -A Feminist and Ecological Reader on Biotechnology, Zed Books

Hynes, H.P. (1989). The Recurring Silent Spring, The Athene Series, Pergamon Press

Environmental and feminist posthumanities

Introduction to ecofeminism

  • Haraway’s manifesto for cyborgs was a resounding confrontation with eco-feminism, such a good starting point. After the more nuanced, less essentialized, approaches of Stacy Alaimo and Cecilia Åsberg – feminist environmental humanities became forms of queer, neomaterialist posthumanitarian practices based on environmental history and ecocriticism.
  • Lena Gunnarsson (former gender researcher/future researcher/sustainability researcher at KTH – now at WHITE arkitektbyrå) has written about eco-feminism – available on KTH:s website, in the gender kit (online training tool)
    • There is also an online text about gender and science based on feminist history of science – and sustainability.
  • Stacy Alaimo – since her thesis has worked with queer criticism of ecofeminism based on Haraway and feminist technoscience studies such as cultural studies and eco-critique – So read Alaimo’s classic texts and books!
  • Introduction to posthuman/new materialist feminist technoscience studies – C Åsberg, N Lykke (2010) European Journal of Women’s Studies 17 (4), 299-305.
    • Åsberg, C. & Braidotti R. (2008). A Feminist Companion to Post‐humanities, NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 16:4, 264-269, DOI: 10.1080/08038740802441071
  • A classic in a European context, when feminist EH is to be introduced: On environmental neomaterialism as a starting point for more than gender-focused gender studies
  • Cecilia Åsberg in the environmental journal Resilience: Environmental Humanities (University of Nebraska) from 2013, Resilience is Cyborg – about Haraway as a starting point for new environmental humanities (eco- and feminist technohumanities)

Environmental/feminist posthumanities

Blue humanities

Animal-human relations

Toxic pollution, Swedish waste management

Toxic Embodiment and Feminist Environmental Humanities 

Summary and relevance of feminist posthumanities