Climate chaos : ecofeminism and the land question /
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 w...
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| Language: | English |
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Toronto :
Inanna Publications & Education Inc.,
[2019]
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 341 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781771335935 1771335939 |