IAH 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Lockean Proviso, Murray Bookchin, Vandana Shiva
Document Summary
"the power and promise of ecological feminism, revisited" Important interconnections among domination of women and others. Important to understand these connections to find solutions. Feminist philosophy should include ecofeminist insights into those interconnections and should so should solutions to env. problems. oppressive conceptual framework logic of domination exploitation of nature/animals is justified by feminizing them. ecofeminist ethic. "ethics and the ecofeminist self" animal rights theories developed by peter singer and. Tom regan are based on questionable philosophical assumptions. Ecofeminist theories are more accurate and useful than others. Connection between domination of nature and social hierarchies. In a society with social hierarchies, we are inclined to accept certain forms of domination, including that of nature. first nature and second nature. "politics of climate change" favors local trade/ agains wto and world bank paradigm shift, not fossil fuel shift extreme weather due to destabilizing ghg development must be defined autopoetically against carbon trading.