Description
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.
Table of Contents
Foreword: Facing the future, honouring the past: whose gender? Whose nature? Noël Sturgeon
Gender and environment: an introduction Sherilyn MacGregor
PART I: Foundations
Chapter 1. Rachel Carson was right – then and now Joni Seager
Chapter 2. The Death of Nature: foundations of ecofeminist thought Charis Thompson and Sherilyn MacGregor
Chapter 3. The dilemma of dualism Freya Mathews
Chapter 4. Gender and environment from ‘women, environment and development’ to feminist political ecology Bernadette P. Resurrección
Chapter 5. Ecofeminist political economy: a green and feminist agenda Mary Mellor
Chapter 6. Naturecultures and feminist materialism Helen Merrick
Chapter 7. Posthumanism, ecofeminism, and inter-species relations Greta Gaard
PART II: Approaches
Chapter 8. Gender, livelihoods, and sustainability: anthropological research Maria Cruz-Torres and Pamela McElwee
Chapter 9. Gender’s critical edge: feminist political ecology, postcolonial intersectionality, and the coupling of race and gender Sharlene Mollett
Chapter 10. Gender and environmental justice Julie Sze
Chapter 11. Gender differences in environmental concern: sociological explanations Chenyang Xiao and Aaron M. McCright
Chapter 12. Social ecology: a transdisciplinary approach to gender and environment research Diana Hummel and Immanuel Stieß
Chapter 13. Gender and environmental (in)security: from climate conflict to ecosystem instability Nicole Detraz
Chapter 14. Gender, environmental governmentality, and the discourses of sustainable development Emma A. Foster
Chapter 15. Feminism and biopolitics: a cyborg account Catriona Sandilands
Chapter 16. Exploring industrial, eco-modern, and ecological masculinities Martin Hultman
Chapter 17. Transgender environments Nicole Seymour
Chapter 18. A fruitless endeavour: confronting the heteronormativity of environmentalism Cameron Butler
PART III: Politics, policy and practice
Chapter 19. Gender and environmental policy Seema Arora-Jonsson
Chapter 20. Gender politics in Green parties Stewart Jackson
Chapter 21. Good green jobs for whom? a feminist critique of the green economy Beate Littig
Chapter 22. Gender dimensions of sustainable consumption Ines Weller
Chapter 23. Sexual stewardship: environment, development, and the gendered politics of population Jade Sasser
Chapter 24. Gender equality, sustainable agricultural development, and food security Agnes A. Babugura
Chapter 25. Whose debt for whose nature? gender and nature in neoliberalism’s war against subsistence Ana Isla
Chapter 26. Gender and climate change politics Susan Buckingham
Chapter 27. Changing the climate of participation: the gender constituency in the global climate change regime Karren Morrow
Chapter 28. Planning for climate change: REDD+SES as gender-responsive environmental action Marcela Tovar-Restrepo
PART IV: Futures
Chapter 29. Pragmatic utopias: intentional gender-democratic and sustainable communities Helen Jarvis
Chapter 30. Feminist futures and ‘other worlds’: ecologies of critical spatial practice Meike Schalk, Ulrika Gunnarsson-Östing and Karin Bradley
Chapter 31. Orca intimacies and environmental slow death: earthling ethics for a claustrophobic world Margret Grebowicz
Chapter 32. The end of gender or deep green trans-misogyny? Laura Houlberg
Chapter 33. Welcome to the white (m)Anthropocene? a feminist-environmentalist critique Giovanna Di Chiro
