Feminist Political Ecology and the Economics of Care: In Search of Economic Alternatives

This book explores a feminist vision of a caring economy and proposes changes in economic and ecological approaches to promote care-full relationships and environmental sustainability. It brings together authors from 11 countries and highlights the complex relationship between re/productivity, nature, womanhood, and care. The book covers topics such as community economies, everyday practices of care, the politics of place, and the care of non-human others, and aims to contribute to feminist theory and practice in sustainability, economic development, and gender power relations.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 298 pages
\n Publication date: 30 September 2020
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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This groundbreaking book explores a novel vision of our economies,where care work and care-full relationships hold paramount importance in social and cultural life. It presents a feminist perspective on a caring economy and raises crucial questions about the economic and ecological transformations required to foster a culture of care for both human and non-human others.

Edited by a team of authors from 11 countries, including representatives from 8 countries' institutions, this collection offers a unique and engaging exploration of the challenges for gender-aware economies rooted in an ethics of care for people and the environment. The book aims to challenge the conventional notion of the inseparability of economic growth, social prosperity, and natural resource exploitation, while avoiding romanticizing social-material relations with nature.

Through a diverse range of analytical approaches, contexts, and case studies, the authors delve into diverse understandings of care, paying particular attention to the intricate connections between re/productivity, nature, womanhood, and care. This book includes robust contributions on community economies, everyday practices of care, the politics of place, and the care of non-human others, as well as an engagement with concepts such as wealth, sustainability, food sovereignty, body politics, nature-cultures, and technoscience.

Feminist Political Ecology and the Economics of Care is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the contributions of feminist theory and practice to the current major political, economic, and environmental debates surrounding sustainability, alternatives to economic development, and gender power relations. By advocating for a caring economy, this book offers a transformative vision for a more just and sustainable future.

\n Weight: 468g\n
Dimension: 156 x 231 x 21 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367663896\n \n