The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment gathers together state-of-the-art theoretical reflections and empirical research from leading researchers and practitioners working in this transdisciplinary and transnational academic field. Over the course of the book, these contributors provide critical analyses of the gender dimensions of a wide range of timely and challenging topics, from sustainable development and climate change politics, to queer ecology and interspecies ethics in the so-called Anthropocene.
Presenting a comprehensive overview of the development of the field from early political critiques of the male domination of women and nature in the 1980s to the sophisticated intersectional and inclusive analyses of the present, the volume is divided into four parts:
Part I: Foundations
Part II: Approaches
Part III: Politics, policy and practice
Part IV: Futures.
Comprising chapters written by forty contributors with different perspectives and working in a wide range of research contexts around the world, this Handbook will serve as a vital resource for scholars, students, and practitioners in environmental studies, gender studies, human geography, and the environmental humanities and social sciences more broadly.
Author(s): Sherilyn MacGregor
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 542
Cover
Title
Copyright
CONTENTS
List of illustrations
International advisory board
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Acronyms
Foreword: Facing the future, honouring the past: whose gender? Whose nature?
Gender and environment: an introduction
PART I Foundations
1 Rachel Carson was right – then, and now
2 The Death of Nature : foundations of ecological feminist thought
3 The dilemma of dualism
4 Gender and environment in the Global South: from ‘women, environment, and development’ to feminist political ecology
5 Ecofeminist political economy: a green and feminist agenda
6 Naturecultures and feminist materialism
7 Posthumanism, ecofeminism, and inter-species relations
PART II Approaches
8 Gender, livelihoods, and sustainability: anthropological research
9 Gender’s critical edge: feminist political ecology, postcolonial intersectionality, and the coupling of race and gender
10 Gender and environmental justice
11 Gender differences in environmental concern: sociological explanations
12 Social ecology: a transdisciplinary approach to gender and environment research
13 Gender and environmental (in)security: from climate conflict to ecosystem instability
14 Gender, environmental governmentality, and the discourses of sustainable development
15 Feminism and biopolitics: a cyborg account
16 Exploring industrial, ecomodern, and ecological masculinities
17 Transgender environments
18 A fruitless endeavour: confronting the heteronormativity of environmentalism
PART III Politics, policy, and practice
19 Gender and environmental policy
20 Gender politics in Green parties
21 Good green jobs for whom? A feminist critique of the green economy
22 Gender dimensions of sustainable consumption
23 Sexual stewardship: environment, development, and the gendered politics of population
24 Gender equality, sustainable agricultural development, and food security
25 Whose debt for whose nature? Gender and nature in neoliberalism’s war against subsistence
26 Gender and climate change politics
27 Changing the climate of participation: the gender constituency in the global climate change regime
28 Planning for climate change: REDD+SES as gender-responsive environmental action
PART IV Futures
29 Pragmatic utopias: intentional gender-democratic and sustainable communities
30 Feminist futures and ‘other worlds’: ecologies of critical spatial practice
31 Orca intimacies and environmental slow death: earthling ethics for a claustrophobic world
32 The end of gender or deep green transmisogyny?
33 Welcome to the white (m)Anthropocene? A feminist-environmentalist critique
Index
