Eco-sufficiency & Global Justice

✍ Scribed by Ariel Salleh

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✦ Table of Contents

Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
1 Ecological Debt: Embodied Debt
Ariel Salleh
Triangulating political ecology
The meta-industrial labour class
Part I – Histories
2 The Devaluation of Women’s Labour
Silvia Federici
Population and the disciplining of women
Reproductive labour is natural and historical
Women’s productive labour as ‘non-work’
The invention of ‘femininity’ and the ‘housewife’
Sex, race, and class in the colonies
3 Who is the ‘He’ of He Who Decides in Economic Discourse?
Ewa Charkiewicz
Economics as a seriality of truth games
How to train a wife and manage an estate
Sovereignty and patriarchy as dispositif
A national familial household
Sovereign capital and social abandonment
Patria potestas, cura materna
4 The Diversity Matrix: Relationship and Complexity
Susan Hawthorne
Living as part of the whole
Indigenous, feminist, and ecological economics
Particularity, concreteness, and place
Eco-social systems and ‘life’
Towards a wild economics
Part II – Matter
5 Development for Some is Violence for Others
Nalini Nayak
Fishing for export or livelihood?
Technologies of abandonment
Patriarchal cultures old and new
6 Nuclearised Bodies and Militarised Space
Zohl dé Ishtar
One bomb vapourised an entire island
Radioactive ecosystem: human guinea pigs
Nuclear pollution and cancer deaths
Economic, social, and cultural fallout
Crimes against humanity
7 Deliberative Water Management
Andrea Moraes and Patricia E. Perkins
Women, feminism, and NGOs
Ecofeminist and transformative leadership
Deliberative democracy in practice
Part III – Governance
8 Mainstreaming Trade and Millennium Development Goals?
Gigi Francisco and Peggy Antrobus
Engendering neoliberal policies
Between religious and economic fundamentalism
Equality and women’s empowerment
Poverty is embedded in gender relations
9 Policy and the Measure of Woman
Marilyn Waring
Do women count for nothing?
Real life: alternative models
The Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW)
The Human Development Index (HDI)
The Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI)
People setting their own indicators
Interpreting data in non-monetary terms
The Alberta GPI
10 Feminist Ecological Economics in Theory and Practice
Sabine U. O’Hara
Reclaiming neglected contexts
Making the invisible visible
Methods reflect power structures
Feminist ecological economics
Part IV – Energy
11 Who Pays for the Kyoto Protocol?
Ana Isla
Enclosing the forest to sell oxygen
Natural capital or super-organism?
The crisis of gatherers and small farmers
The crisis of women and children
Resisting narrow environmentalism
12 How Global Warming is Gendered
Meike Spitzner
Common but differentiated responsibilities?
From procedural to substantive change
A chance for gender post 2012?
13 Women and the Abuja Declaration for Energy Sovereignty
Leigh Brownhill and Terisa E. Turner
Neoliberal approaches to women and climate change
Gendered, ethnicised, class struggle
Women’s ‘gift’ to humanity
Big Oil and state violence
The Abuja Declaration
Part V – Movement
14 Ecofeminist Political Economy and the Politics of Money
Mary Mellor
Dualist economics
The precarity of global capitalism
Why growth is made ‘an imperative’
Challenging the money system
15 Saving Women: Saving the Commons
Leo Podlashuc
The semantics of savings
Community and autonomy
Savings as praxis
International mobilisation
Saving women
Conscientisation and empowerment
16 From Eco-Sufficiency to Global Justice
Ariel Salleh
Reproductive labour as leverage
An embodied materialism
Capacity building for the global North
Notes on Contributors
Index