Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Gender And Globalisation

Feminist economics criticism

 

How can social relationships with nature and their critical development will be analyzed and designed politically without recurring to constructions of femininity and reproduce the analogy of women and nature? The link between feminist critique of political economy and the gender critical approach of Queer Ecologies enables innovative perspectives on the nature-culture hierarchy. Based on the materiality of economic relations and social relationships with nature ecological feminist policies can be developed. The crisis of social reproduction serves as a starting point in their interconnectedness to understand economic, environmental and social crisis developments together. In the perspective of a critical examination of the concept of sustainability based feminist perspectives societal relationships with nature on the principle of sustainable livelihoods (more)