In the shift from the modernist, competitive and ‘catching up’ orientation of the first generation of feminists to a much more holistic, nurturant and non-dualistic perspective that is beginning to emerge from recent thinking on feminism, this book may prove to be an important contribution. It also commends itself for …

Ever since the Enlightenment, Western philosophers have shown us a Nature that is grand and universal but also passive and mechanical. Nature was a backdrop and resource for the moral intentionality of Man, which could tame and master Nature. It was left to fabulists, including non-Western and non-civilizational storytellers, to …

An Ironic Dream of a Common Language for Women in the Integrated Circuit This essay is an effort to build an ironic political myth faithful to feminism, socialism, and materialism. Perhaps more faithful as blasphemy is faithful, than as reverent worship and identification. Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking …

FOREWORD BY JOHN CLARK Whenever anyone has expressed curiosity concerning the meaning of ecofeminism, I have without hesitation suggested this book. It was a major theoretical breakthrough when it appeared two decades ago, and has since then been an enduring point of reference for me. In fact, it was the …

“Whoever severs himself from Mother Earth and her flowing sources of life goes into exile.”—Emma Goldman A specter is haunting the specter of communism: the specter of the nonhuman. Humankind will argue that the human species is a viable and vital category for thinking communist politics, a politics that this …

The word ‘ecofeminism’ might be new, but the pulse behind it has always driven women’s efforts to save their livelihood and make their communities safe. From the Chipko forest dwellers of North India some 300 years ago to the mothers of coalmining Appalachia right now, the struggle to create life- …

Despite the accomplishments and the vision of radical ecologists, how- ever, most of the world’s power is presently concentrated in economic sys- tems and political institutions that bring about environmental deterioration. The trends that split rich from poor, whites from people of color, men from women, and humans from nature …

In facing up to the many profound crises of our time, we face a conundrum that has no easy resolution: how are we to imagine and build a radically different system while living within the constraints of an incumbent system that aggressively resists transformational change? Our challenge is not just …

«αυτό το δοκίμιο φέρνει στο επίκεντρο την ριζοσπαστική φροντίδα μέσα από το πρίσμα του διαθεματικού οικοφεμινισμού με την ελπίδα ότι θα προσφέρει την απαραίτητη έμπνευση για την πραγματοποίηση ενός μέλλοντος στο οποίο η φροντίδα δεν είναι απλώς κάτι για το οποίο γίνεται λόγος, αλλά επίσης έχει ευρεία εφαρμογή.» …

The ‘City as a Commons’—the idea of urban commoning—is an emerging body of ideas and practices, that have the potential to transform the ways in which we experience and shape our urban environments, and indeed world …