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Zhafirah, Faizzah Shabrina, Aquarini Priyatna, and Ari Jogaiswara Adipurwawidjana. "THE AMBIVALENT PORTRAYAL OF THE ECOFEMINIST MOVEMENT IN TANAH IBU KAMI (2020)." Metahumaniora 13, no. 3 (December 7, 2023): 220. http://dx.doi.org/10.24198/metahumaniora.v13i3.48736.
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Tanah Ibu Kami (2020), a documentary film produced by The Gecko Project and Mongabay, published on YouTube, follows the travels of journalist Febriana Firdaus to four rural areas in Indonesia where she meets Sukinah from Kendeng, Central Java; Lodia Oematan and Aleta Baun from Mollo, East Nusa Tenggara; Eva Bande from Banggai, Central Sulawesi; and Farwiza from Banda Aceh, Aceh. The film portrays these women leading socio-ecological movements that fight for their rights along with their land rights, as they face the risks of violence, imprisonment, and judgment from large corporations and patriarchal customs and beliefs. Placing the documentary within the ecofeminist framework, exemplified by Warren (2000) and Shiva and Mies (2018), I would like to show how the documentary portrays the state and the cultural institutions having control over women and nature. In its narrative method, the film tends to look at the environmentalism done by women as something to be highlighted not because of its substantial aspects but more as a valorized act because of its masculine attributes. Thus, while the film glorifies women as empowered environmentalists with the ability to exert agency, the structure of and behind the film is based on patriarchal assumptions.
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Osborne, Thomas J. "“Forces of Nature”." California History 100, no. 2 (2023): 62–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.2.62.
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San Francisco Bay is the most historically consequential estuary on the Pacific coast of the Western Hemisphere. From the California gold rush through the mid-twentieth century, the infilling and polluting of the bay had gone on without interruption until three University of California, Berkeley, faculty/administrator wives stepped out of their comfort zones and acted. Catherine (“Kay”) Kerr, Sylvia McLaughlin, and Esther Gulick spearheaded what became a historic and ongoing effort to save the bay they loved. At the outset, they saw themselves neither as feminists nor as environmentalists, and certainly did not expect to be newsmakers. But the campaign they launched in the early 1960s changed the women in significant ways and helped fuel California’s rise to a leadership role in American environmentalism. Moreover, the Save the Bay movement they launched led to similar campaigns on the East Coast and Gulf Coast of the United States and to international recognition of their successes. Their efforts and achievements are perhaps best understood within the historical context of an evolving and greening California Dream of a better and more just life for all.
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Pakulski, Jan, and Bruce Tranter. "Environmentalism and Social Differentiation." Journal of Sociology 40, no. 3 (September 2004): 221–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1440783304045798.
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This is a tribute to the late Steve Crook who shared with us the excitement of research on environmentalism. As we predicted, environmental activism in Australia remains socially circumscribed, but its scope, and the scope of environmental concerns, have been widening. Differentiation and proliferation of environmental issues combine with social diffusion and routinization. The proportion of people who see the environment as a salient issue continues to be relatively high, in spite of an increasing competition from new issue concerns, including security and illegal migration. The new ‘white’ environmental issues enter the public arena reflecting widespread (though less urgent) concerns about genetic modification of food-crops and cloning of human tissue – all interpreted as ‘interference with nature’. The ‘white’ environmental issues attract the concern of new social categories of ‘conscience environmentalists’ who are more likely to be women, tend to be older, religious, and less attracted by green organizations. They are also less metropolitan in their location, and not as leftist and postmaterial in their value preferences as their ‘green’ and ‘brown’ predecessors. The formation of the ‘white’ environmental issue cluster and constituency opens the way for new ideological reinterpretations of environmental outlook – and for new political alliances.
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Merleaux, April. "Equal Risks: Workplace Discrimination, Toxic Exposure, and the Environmental Politics of Reproduction, 1976–91." Environmental History 26, no. 3 (May 29, 2021): 484–507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emab025.
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Abstract This article describes a period when environmental organizations actively worked to achieve equal rights for women in the 1970s and 1980s. Using archival records from the Environmental Defense Fund and from women’s occupational health activists, I argue that a significant, if under-recognized, catalyst for environmentalists’ engagement with feminist politics was the emergence of workplace exclusion policies. Pushed to hire women by newly enforced sex discrimination statutes in the 1970s, industrial employers categorically excluded women from jobs with hazardous toxic substances. Environmentalists joined a coalition of labor and women’s rights advocates that together challenged exclusion policies in the courts and regulatory agencies. The coalition devised a litigation strategy that they hoped would raise environmental standards and end sex discrimination, issues that they saw as intrinsically related. They forwarded an equal protection approach to environmental hazards as part of a broader campaign to expand how regulators assessed toxic risks. They sought gender-neutral protection, and they challenged the gender biases in scientific research priorities and regulatory standards. Their litigation culminated in the US Supreme Court’s decision in United Automobile Workers v. Johnson Controls (1991), which prohibited sex-based exclusion policies. In the realms of women’s employment law and abortion rights, the case was a success. It was not, however, a milestone for environmental protection. It failed to achieve key coalition objectives since it did not raise environmental standards or require companies to remediate toxic workplaces. Ultimately, the ruling preserved equal risks in toxic jobs rather than asserting equal rights to environmental protection.
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Fontes, Eva, António C. Moreira, and Vera Carlos. "The influence of ecological concern on green purchase behavior." Management & Marketing. Challenges for the Knowledge Society 16, no. 3 (September 1, 2021): 246–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/mmcks-2021-0015.
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Abstract The present paper seeks to address a gap in the literature regarding green marketing and examines the relationship between ecological concern, inward and outward environmental attitudes, purchasing behavior and environmental behavior as antecedents of green purchasing behavior. The data was gathered through an online survey carried out in Portugal with 530 valid answers. Structural Equation Modelling Partial Least Squares (SEM-PLS) was used to evaluate the model. A t-test was applied to identify differences between men and women. The results show that ecological concern, environmental attitude, environmental behavior and purchase intention are good predictors of green purchase behavior. Women scored higher than men on all variables, meaning that they are indeed superior environmentalists than men. Green purchase behavior is strongly influenced by both purchase intention and environmental behavior, so green brands should focus on targeting individuals that already take some actions in what concerns the environment, or to those who intend to do so.
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Wase, Anjeh. "THE ENVIRONMENT AND COLONIALISM IN JAMAICA KINCAID’S LUCY AND MY GARDEN (BOOK)." International Journal of Environmental Sciences 4, no. 1 (December 30, 2021): 30–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.47604/ijes.1442.
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This research paper sets out to show how Jamaica Kincaid, in her celebrated works, Lucy and My Garden (Book), intrinsically links the degradation of the environment to colonialism through memory even though most critics posit that men/women should preserve their environment.
Purpose: To the protagonists, the environment brings back memory of subjugation and oppression that undermine man-nature relationship in Kincaid’s selected works.
Methodology: Qualitative research was used to write this paper since it involves textual analysis. Information of this research paper was gathered from the primary sources (Lucy and My Garden (Book) and secondary sources. Post colonialism and ecocriticism were deemed suitable theories on which this research paper could be hitched, in order to show how the environment is related to colonialism. The paper stresses on Kincaid’s protagonists’ hostility to the environment. In fact, whenever they see elements of the environment, they reflect on colonial trauma.
Findings: The traumatic feeling from the characters under study stifles their relationship with the environment despite the fact that environmentalists and ecofeminists advocate for a close relationship with nature and its preservation in order to combat the current environmental crisis.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Policy and Practice: This research, just like most environmentalists and ecofeminists will make people to understand that the natural environment is very vital to man and its preservation is a main concern for human beings. It will as well deepen discussion in the field of postcolonialism and ecocriticism. Readers of this article will help sensitize leaders of the world to stop colonialism so that the environment can be saved because traumatic memories are detrimental to the preservation of nature.
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Fitri, Ainal, and Putri Maulina. "NARASI HEROISME PEREMPUAN DALAM ISU LINGKUNGAN (Analisis Framing Berita Farwiza Farhan di Media Daring Lokal dan Nasional)." Gender Equality: International Journal of Child and Gender Studies 6, no. 1 (March 31, 2020): 51. http://dx.doi.org/10.22373/equality.v6i1.6198.
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Environmental discourse is considered as one of the essential narratives since it involves the role of women. In the gender perspective, women in environmental issues are often described as a sidekick. Farwiza Farhan is one of the environmentalists who contributes to the environmental campaign effort. The study aims to focus on the framing of Farwiza Farhan’s figure against her contribution as the keeper of the Leuser Ecosystem (KEL) on online media environmental reports. This study used the Framing Analysis approach, Environmental Journalism, and Heroism concept. The researchers chose and analyzed three news from online news media: serambinews. com as a local source; and republika. co. id and bbc. com as national sources. This research was analyzed by using Zhongdang Pan and Gerald M. Kosicki’s Framing Analysis method. The finding shows that the news media frames Farwiza Farhan as an environmental activist with a heroism narrative. Farwiza is portrayed as a heroic, selfless, courageous, and intelligent personality. She is adaptive and determined to deal with conflict, and she also has initiative and leadership. Heroism is perceived as an environmental perspective-journalism strategy of online news media to deliver environmental knowledge and to raise public awareness towards the environmental issue.
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Greguš, Jan, and John Guillebaud. "Scientists’ Warning: Remove the Barriers to Contraception Access, for Health of Women and the Planet." World 4, no. 3 (September 11, 2023): 589–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/world4030036.
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The human population reached 8 billion in 2022 and is still growing, and will possibly peak at 10.4 billion in 2086. Environmental science mandates that continued growth of the human enterprise on a finite planet is unsustainable and already in overshoot. Indeed, 3 billion is an evidence-based target number, for our species in competition with all non-human life-forms. We must achieve zero population growth and, ultimately, a massive decrease. Commonly, even among environmentalists who are not “population-deniers”, human numbers are seen as a given, to be adapted to rather than influenced or managed. Yet, just and appropriate interventions exist. The fundamental requirement is the empowerment of women, removing the barriers in many settings to their education (including environmental education, and the reproductive ethics of smaller families) and to realistic, voluntary access to contraception. Wherever “reproductive health” includes access to rights-based family planning, this not only promotes the health of the planet but also women’s health through, inter alia, their choice to have fewer and better-spaced children. This is ethical, pragmatic, and cost-effective—a prime example of preventive medicine. Politicians (mostly men) everywhere must embrace this long-term thinking and significantly increase the currently inadequate funding of contraceptive care. Herein is another Scientists’ Warning: there is just one planet for all life.
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Bankole, _______, Dada Toyin, and _____ Jegede. "Spatial Distribution of Natural Tourism Potentials and Rural Development of Host Communities in Some Selected Areas of Ekiti State, Nigeria." International Research Journal of Management, IT & Social Sciences 2, no. 11 (November 1, 2015): 31. http://dx.doi.org/10.21744/irjmis.v2i11.79.
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This study examined the spatial distribution of natural tourism potentials and rural development of host communities in some selected Areas of Ekiti State, Nigeria. Natural tourism potentials gives the tourism industry great respect among other industries in Ekiti State, as well as a major concern to business men and women, tourists, government officials, and the general public. Data for this study were collected from personal survey and the random administration of one hundred and fifty (150) questionnaires on respondents in the study area. Results from this study showed that tourists vary frequently, visit the tourists’ potential sites, due to a large number of tourists’ attraction sites in the area. This study recommended that, there is need for improvement of tourists’ potential sites in the study area. This study will be of great help to tourists, environmentalists’, researchers, planners and policy makers in the tourism industry, as well as boost the economy of Ekiti State and in-turn impact positively on the development of the State.
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Lassinaro, Kaisa. "Articulating Political Feelings." lambda nordica 28, no. 4 (December 31, 2023): 46–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.34041/ln.v28.918.
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This article introduces two local cases of political activism where performative methods were used: the 1987 demonstration by the feminist antimilitarists Women for Peace, and a campaign by Extinction Rebellion’s queer environmentalists in 2021, both in Helsinki, Finland. The article argues that through diversity and complexity, collectives become fluid and adaptive and thus stay ahead of party politics while advancing social change in an effective manner. This requires aesthetic strategies explored in this text: how ambivalent feelings are formed into an aesthetics to communicate political feelings and demands. The artistic methods used in these actions are considered through Jacques Rancière’s and Judith Butler’s theorising on the relational and the communal, while José Esteban Muñoz’s notions of queer temporality and the ephemeral apply to the acts as well. Through the framework of social aesthetics, as well as feminist and queer philosophy, I argue for the significance of aesthetics in collective agency building and social change.
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Wallhagen, Marita, and Peter Magnusson. "Ecological Worldview Among University Staff." Ethics & the Environment 29, no. 1 (March 2024): 29–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/een.00003.
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Abstract: University staff play an important role in the development of a more sustainable world. Their attitudes towards pro-environmental behavior and environmental values likely have an influence on ethics, the current society and future generations. Therefore, this study aims to measure and interpret the ecological worldview among university staff using the validated New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) survey. The mean NEP-score was 3.68. This overall value is of the same magnitude as many samples from diverse geographical areas with representatives and students, but it is considerably lower than for environmentalists. The facet Balance of nature reported the highest score whereas Limits to growth the lowest score. Women had higher mean score, mainly explained by the higher score in the facet Human domination over nature . There is a potential for improving the ecological world-view scores of University staff, who are an unstudied and important group. Values in higher education may influence sustainable development, environmental ethics and society.
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Dalal, Anjali. "What Does It Take to Clean the Ganga? Gendered Dimensions of Protest and Policy Perspectives." Indian Journal of Gender Studies 27, no. 2 (June 2020): 183–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0971521520910966.
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In the last two decades, pollution in the river Ganga has become a serious issue, affecting the socio-economic activities and the health of the communities living on the banks and adjacent areas of the river. The impact has been greater on women, because their day-to-day activities for survival are intimately connected with this water resource. The response of the government has been to drastically improve its environmental policies. Social activists on the other hand continued to mobilize civil society in regional protests, which finally led to the beginning of the ‘Save Ganga’ movement. Yet, both the strategies to clean the river pollution have been colossal failures. An analysis was undertaken of various government policies, reports and court judgements on the river’s pollution and a primary survey was done on three sites: Garhwal in Uttarakhand and in Varanasi and Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh to gauge the nature of women’s participation in the movements. It was found that there was greater participation by women in the hilly Garhwal region than in the plains of Uttar Pradesh. The research proved that women’s knowledge and experiences in environmental conservation had led to greater sustainability, in contrast to the results of the modern-technocratic approach of state officials and so-called environmentalists. The article seeks to locate the failure of the project of cleaning the river to the lack of gender sensitive environmental policies and insufficient participation of women in ecological activism.
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Skanavis, Constantina, and Maria Maria Sakellari. "Gender and sustainable tourism:Women’s participation in the environmental decision-making process." European Journal of Tourism Research 1, no. 2 (October 1, 2008): 78–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.54055/ejtr.v1i2.13.
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Environmental education can positively influence attitudes and decision making in environmental protection and sustainable tourism development. Understanding gender differences in environmentalism and in citizen participant’s motivations, preferred participation process characteristics and process evaluation criteria is an important component of this. Women and men are involved differently in the construction and consumption of tourism. Women, for example, report stronger environmental attitudes and behaviours than men. This study examines the special role that women play in the development of sustainable tourism. Within this framework, the relationship between gender and tourism, the role of Environmental education in encouraging citizen participation, and women-environmentalism relationship is examined. Gender issues are a primary factor of tourism social science. One of the ways that Environmental Education can promote sustainable tourism is to understand the gender differences that exist in citizen participant’s motivations, preferred participation process characteristics and process evaluation criteria.
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Prihasti, Elly, and Wuriyani Wuriyani. "Reconfiguration of Women's Environmental Lover (Configuration of Environmentalist Women)." Budapest International Research and Critics in Linguistics and Education (BirLE) Journal 2, no. 4 (November 5, 2019): 163–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/birle.v2i4.503.
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The women's movement continues to grow but their struggles continuesly struggle in Domestic challenge, power and economy. They are considered unfit. Power also threatens in voicing the protection of the natural environment. The description of women's struggle is contained in the text of the Women's Batak Opera on the edge of the Lake by Lena Simanjuntak. This opera text restores the identity of women who are closer and care about the environment that is starting to break down, also to values that are starting to disappear. Inductive methods used range from general to general or general problems. The problem analysis starts from the presentation of evidence in the text which is then dialogue with the concept of ecofeminism. The results show that it is not easy for women to express a voice of concern for nature, even though it has been discourse in the context of their cultural history. Furthermore, due to cultural changes that prioritize the interests of individuals and humans from ecology. This is a strong reason for some women to resist changes in voicing and releasing the natural damage caused by human activities.
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Poli, Corrado. "Gender, Nature and the City." Human Geography 7, no. 3 (November 2014): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/194277861400700301.
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An ecological and eco-feminist critique may promote an innovative environmentalist urban policy. A new relation between humanity and nature implies a different aesthetic and architecture of the city. In the past, in control of the public sphere, men built their cities according to their attitudes and values. Traditional (masculine) behavior produced an efficiency based in dominating a resilient nature. This approach is no longer viable given the environmental crisis. Women are the privileged subjects of radical change, assuming a leadership role in the environmentalist movement and proposing cities envisaged according to a new way of thinking and feeling that accords with a reconsidered relationship between humanity and nature.
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Shaji, Athira. "Theorising Environmentalism and Caregiving: A Critique of Ecofeminism." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 8, no. 4 (2023): 073–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.84.12.
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The paper focuses on the conceptualization of care giving during ecological disasters from a gender perspective. There has not been adequate research on care from a socio cultural context (T. Revenson, 7). The cultural context of care is important as it helps to understand the different dimensions of caregiving and the experience of caregivers. The research documented by Heller and Rowitz in 1997 shows that majority of the caregivers are women especially mothers. In a cultural setting of home, it is normative for women to invest themselves in the role as a caregiver. Caregiving is perceived as a self sacrificing role that women are expected to undertake because of moral responsibility (Lefley, 443). The ethic of care is an important part of the ecofeminist practice. Women’s role as a caregiver also positions them as natural environmental carers. With reference to the socio-cultural background in the selected eco-narratives, the study intends to make a critical appraisal of the ecofeminist theory in order to understand its relation between women and nature. The study further examines how such a relationship reinforces the gendered nature of care and its impact on women at a cultural level.
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Yogmaya, Kandel. "The Language of Eco-feminism and Early 20th century Feminist writers Buck and Cather." International Research Journal of Parroha Multiple Campus 1, no. 1 (2022): 22–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.61916/prmn.2023.v0101.003.
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This paper explores the language of eco-feminism and its intersection with the works of early 20th-century feminist writers Buck and Cather. Ecofeminism is a branch of feminism that examines the connections between women and nature, emphasizing the ways both nature and women are treated by patriarchal society. The paper examines the historical evolution of ecofeminist thought and its key tenets, including the revaluing of nonpatriarchal structures and a view of the world that respects organic processes and holistic connections. It also discusses the early critiques of ecofeminism and its relationship with environmentalism. The works of early 20th-century feminist writers Buck and Cather are analyzed in the context of ecofeminist philosophy, exploring how their language and themes intersect with the principles of ecofeminism. Keywords: Ecofeminism, Feminism, Environmentalism, Early 20th-century, Writers, Buck,Cather
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Jackson, cecile. "Women in critical realist environmentalism: subaltern to the species?" Economy and Society 26, no. 1 (February 1997): 62–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03085149700000004.
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Spieth, Bethany. "Book Review: American Women Speak: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection of Women’s Oratory." Reference & User Services Quarterly 58, no. 2 (January 18, 2019): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rusq.58.2.6942.
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American Women Speak provides brief biographies and oratorical samples for American women notable for their use of the spoken word from the 1630s through the present. Aside from brief front and back matter, including a subject guide and chronology, the book consists entirely of biographical sketches of the women along with, for most of the women, examples of their oratory. The examples include excerpts from and the full text of speeches, testimonies, and interviews. They cover a wide range of progressive topics, including women’s rights, environmentalism, pacifism, and gun control. Only two of the included women are activists for conservative causes.
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Suarez Estrada, Marcela, García Peter Sabina, and Campos Motta Renata. "Women in Movement & Feminisms: Critical Materialisms & Environmentalisms (Editors' Introduction)." Studies in Social Justice 17, no. 2 (March 30, 2023): 152–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v17i2.4263.
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Cuomo, Chris J. "War Is Not Just an Event: Reflections on the Significance of Everyday Violence." Hypatia 11, no. 4 (1996): 30–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1996.tb01033.x.
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Although my position is in basic agreement with the notion that war and militarism are feminist issues, I argue that approaches to the ethics of war and peace which do not consider “peacetime” military violence are inadequate for feminist and environmentalist concerns. Because much of the military violence done to women and ecosystems happens outside the boundaries of declared wars, feminist and environmental philosophers ought to emphasize the significance of everyday military violence.
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Shqair, Manal, and Mahmoud Soliman. "Rethinking the everyday domestic sphere: Palestinian women as environmentalist and anti-colonial warriors." Community Development Journal 57, no. 1 (December 23, 2021): 40–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsab052.
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Abstract This paper examines the role of rural Palestinian women in the South Hebron Hills (SHH) in fighting back against both Israeli settler colonial practices and environmental destruction resulting from such practices. We contend that Israel is waging a war on the environment as a tool to deprive Palestinians in Area ‘C’ of what sustains life, land and natural resources. Through their everyday practices of defiance, we argue that, rural women wielding an indigenous lifestyle of farming in the SHH create an agro-ecological structure of sumud, or steadfastness through their domestic everyday practices, where they strengthen their attachment to the land and regenerate the environment.
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Plumwood, Val. "Nature, Self, and Gender: Feminism, Environmental Philosophy, and the Critique of Rationalism." Hypatia 6, no. 1 (1991): 3–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1991.tb00206.x.
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Rationalism is the key to the connected oppressions of women and nature in the West. Deep ecology has failed to provide an adequate historical perspective or an adequate challenge to human/nature dualism. A relational account of self enables us to reject an instrumental view of nature and develop an alternative based on respect without denying that nature is distinct from the self. This shift of focus links feminist, environmentalist, and certain forms of socialist critiques. The critique of anthropocentrism is not sacrificed, as deep ecologists argue, but enriched.
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Karlsson, Mariko Takedomi, and Vasna Ramasar. "Selling women the green dream: the paradox of feminism and sustainability in fashion marketing." Journal of Political Ecology 27, no. 1 (April 30, 2020): 335–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/v27i1.23584.
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This article explores the paradox of corporations using social and environmental justice concerns to market products that are themselves made in conditions of environmental and social injustice, most often in the Global South. The effects of the fashion industry on people is two-pronged: 1) the unsafe and exploitative conditions under which many garment workers operate, and 2) the severe and harmful water and air pollution caused by fashion industry factories. There are thus contradictions inherent in the manner in which corporations, through their marketing, seek to foster feminism and environmentalism, whilst sourcing their garments from factories that operate in problematic ways. Using case studies of advertising campaigns from three Swedish companies, HM, Monki and Gina Tricot, we conducted a discourse analysis to understand the messages to consumers as well as the image of the company that is portrayed. Through our political ecology analysis, we suggest that the promotion of feminism and environmentalism is not consistently applied by companies in their own practices and could at worst be labeled green and 'fem washing.' These approaches can also be deeply problematic when they lead to the exotification of others, and cultural appropriation. We further find that the marketing strategies in fashion serve not only to promote the sale of products but also have the effect of placing environmental responsibility onto individual consumers. Ultimately, fashion marketing serves to obfuscate ecologically unequal exchange and the true costs of fashion.Key words: gender, marketing, consumption, feminism, fashion, textiles, advertising, ecologically unequal exchange, sustainability
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Larri, Larraine J. "Lifelong learning, well-being, and climate justice activism: Exploring social movement learning among Australia’s Knitting Nannas." International Journal of Population Studies 10, no. 2 (March 15, 2024): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.36922/ijps.381.
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The participation of older people in social movement learning presents a unique perspective on lifelong learning opportunities and well-aging in later life. Australia’s Knitting Nannas Against Gas and Greed exemplifies how older women have challenged the “double jeopardy of old age” embodied in ageist sexism and become well-regarded anti-coal seam gas environmental activists. This article explores how engagement in environmental activism has fostered a learning ecology, which promotes transformative and emancipatory learning dispositions that benefit well-aging. A significant gap exists in transformative environmental adult educational research in relation to the motivation for and engagement of older women in environmentalism. Drawing on my Ph.D. research, I identify how women acquire environmental and ecological literacy, develop activist skills, and cultivate emancipatory learning dispositions. They benefit from being part of a supportive community of older women, enhancing their quality of life. This phenomenon is referred to as “Nannagogy.”
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Antoniadou, Maria, Georgios Chrysochoou, Rafael Tzanetopoulos, and Elena Riza. "Green Dental Environmentalism among Students and Dentists in Greece." Sustainability 15, no. 12 (June 13, 2023): 9508. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15129508.
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Ηuman sustainability in dental enterprises, as in every workplace, is connected to air and water quality, eco-friendly and naturally designed working spaces, and the culture of the 4Rs. The purpose of this study was to assess pro-environmental behavior, as well as knowledge of preferences for circular economies and green building construction, among a sample of dental students and dentists in Greece. We further assessed the factors influencing their choices. Students (N1 = 93) and dentists (N2 = 126) filled in e-questionnaires from April to December 2022. The data revealed that both students and dentists lack knowledge about the circular economy (N1 = 67.74%, N2 = 68.25%), EU regulations on amalgam disposal (N1 = 64.51%, N2 = 58.73%), and plastic recycling (N1 = 76.34%, N2 = 76.98%); meanwhile, they do recycle at home (N1 = 80.64%, N2 = 82.54%) and have participated in voluntary environmental initiatives (N1 = 58.06%, N2 = 66.66%). Gender influences the importance of factors related to green dental practices, with women students being more likely to agree that increased costs for network changes (p = 0.02) and poor wastewater management (p = 0.01) are significant. Students from urban areas are more likely to give positive answers to questions related to the lack of state financial support (p = 0.02), low levels of green design in buildings (p = 0.03), the negligible direct financial benefits of green dental offices (p = 0.04), the negligible reputational benefits of green dental offices (p = 0.02), and the lack of continuing education training seminars on green dentistry (p = 0.05). For dentists, no significant relationships were observed, except for a weak positive relationship for the increases in costs due to changes related to utility networks (p = 0.08), while increases in waste energy (p = 0.12) and the waste of dental materials (p = 0.19) seemed significant only for dentists in urban areas. Women dentists were more likely to answer positively regarding wasting energy (p = 0.024) and the use of unapproved disinfection products (p = 0.036). The findings contribute ideas and solutions for green dental practice buildings and sustainable behaviors through educational activities and regarding the social aspects of factors such as age, experience in dentistry, gender, and urbanism. This study also provides a basis for future multi-disciplinary research on dental quality assurance, the psychology of environmentalism, economics, and behavioral science in dentistry.
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BANTJES, ROD, and TANYA TRUSSLER. "Feminism and the Grass Roots: Women and Environmentalism in Nova Scotia, 1980-1983*." Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie 36, no. 2 (May 1999): 179–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-618x.1999.tb01274.x.
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Alrasheedi, Naeemah J. "An Exploration of the Decolonization and Ecofeminist Activism of Indigenous Kenyan Women in Wangari Maathai's Memoir Unbowed: One Woman’s Story." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 13, no. 12 (December 1, 2023): 3346–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1312.33.
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Wangari Maathai, perhaps one of the world’s most renowned African female writers, frequently writes on the struggles faced by indigenous Kenyan women who lack the essentials for survival. Her writings are infused with the efforts of indigenous women to establish themselves as contributing members who can create new ethical, cultural, and territorial agendas. In her writings, Maathai also places a strong emphasis on indigenous female ideal transformation and decolonization narratives. Environmentalism and indigenous women’s agency have always been a key unrelenting passion in Maathai’s writings. Following this passion, this study examines the decolonization and ecofeminist activist narratives that shape the indigenous Kenyan women's national collective identity and agency. The purpose of this article is to explore Maathai's inspiring activism which is a succession of countless acts of activism toward the planting of both the seeds of land and the agency of indigenous Kenyan women.
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Pease, Bob. "Recreating Men’s Relationship with Nature: Toward a Profeminist Environmentalism." Men and Masculinities 22, no. 1 (March 12, 2019): 113–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184x18805566.
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While feminist and profeminist scholars are increasingly in agreement with the thesis that hegemonic and destructive forms of masculinity are the source of current environmental crises, there is less agreement on how to address this issue or on the way forward for ecologically conscious and profeminist men. Some forms of ecofeminism essentialize women as being closer to nature than men, while arguing that men are closer to culture. There seems little capacity for men to change in this view. In a parallel development, some ecomasculinity theorists argue that the problem is not with the nature of masculinity per se but with the separation of men’s natural maleness from forms of masculinity that suppress their infinite capacity to care. It will be argued that such latter approaches espouse either an ecofeminine or ecomasculinist perspective rather than a social ecofeminist view. This article will explore the implications of the social ecofeminist critique (or what some writers refer to as feminist environmentalism) for understanding socially constructed masculinism, and what men can do about it, in the context of the social divisions between men across the world.
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Nida, Nushrotun, and Mundi Rahayu. "Ecological Environmentalism in Geg Ary Suharsani's Kunang-Kunang Hitam." NOBEL: Journal of Literature and Language Teaching 14, no. 2 (October 31, 2023): 149–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.15642/nobel.2023.14.2.149-163.
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The Tamblingan land conflict is closely related to the investment trend heading towards Bali’s upstream area. Investors are converting Tamblingan forest land into hotels and tourism to reap the benefits of nature tourism in the most natural forest. This issue is discussed in the novel Kunang-Kunang Hitam by Geg Ary Suharsani. This paper aims to describe the struggle of the female character Ni Luh Candri in the Tamblingan land conflict as narrated in the novel Kunang-Kunang Hitam (KKH). This study uses a Susan Griffin perspective ecofeminism approach. The results of this study indicate that the struggle of the female character Ni Luh Candri in defending the Tamblingan forest is divided into two forms: Ni Luh Candri’s struggles related to nature, such as refusing land conversion, protecting rare plants, symbolic communication to fireflies and Ni Luh Candri’s struggles related to nature humanistic environment, such as becoming Leak, burning incense, displaying rangda mask, and advocating for communities around the forest. This research proves that women can take various important actions (ecological environmentalism) to preserve the environment.
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Dewi, Yogi Paramitha, and Etheldreda E. L. T. Wongkar. "Membangun Resiliensi dari Bawah: Perempuan dengan Disabilitas dan Keadilan Iklim di Indonesia." Jurnal Perempuan 27, no. 3 (December 27, 2022): 191–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.34309/jp.v27i3.723.
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Socially, the impacts of climate change are unevenly distributed within the society. Those who have been marginalized, albeit their less contribution to climate change, have been the most vulnerable group suffered from those impacts due to their lack of access to resources and capacities to act. One segment within the group is women with disabilities. Although many policies dealing with adaptation and mitigation to climate change have been adopted by the government, specific interests of women with disabilities are not considered as a result from their lack of involvement and participation in the decision-making process. Nevertheless, women with disabilities have been undertaking voluntary initiatives to build resilience among themselves in dealing with the climate crisis. This article aims to examine the essence and significance of accommodating women with disabilities in formulating policies on climate change and to discuss how they exercise their agency to develop initiatives in responding to the problem. A combined conceptual framework from feminist environmentalism and climate justice is used here in addressing both issues
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Mickelburgh, Renée. "Compassion in the Garden: Radical Homemakers or Just More Women’s Work?" Emotions: History, Culture, Society 4, no. 1 (September 14, 2020): 146–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2208522x-02010092.
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Abstract Compassion is key to Australian women’s garden stories and return-to-the-home environmentalism. These stories highlight the gendered power implications of women’s work. Questions about who is suffering and who is caring are paramount. Women’s garden narratives are hopeful: they capture the interconnection between the local and global and the ethics of care promoted by ecofeminists. Yet when women gardeners embrace a care ethic which sees their own domestic workload skyrocket in order to alleviate environmental suffering, their compassion stories risk becoming what Lauren Berlant terms ‘collective norms of obligation’. Through aural storytelling in Pip permaculture magazine podcasts, women gardeners consider how the responsibility of ordinary, caring garden work fits within their already numerous, significant, and everyday caring responsibilities. Their collaboration reveals innovative solutions to this conundrum. Their compassionate garden work becomes a domestic practice of time, effort, and joy.
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Harrow, Kenneth. "Time and ecology in African cinema: Pumzi and Felix in Exile." International Journal of Francophone Studies 23, no. 3 (December 1, 2020): 289–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijfs_00023_7.
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This article examines how time and space-time relate to eco-critical films and their charge of intervening in issues dealing with environmentalism. From the earliest films the question of capturing the truth gave impetus to the desire to represent reality accurately, including its social and political ‘truths’. Increasing concerns over the environment have come to mean that filmmakers have also felt the necessity to present eco-critical dramas. The drama has been how to create environmentally significant films without condescending to the viewers. The key question Rob Nixon poses in Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor might be how the social-economic order, over time, informs the health of the environment and the conditions of life for the working class. Two short films and the Green Belt Movement extend that question: Pumzi asks how a future marked by nuclear disaster might be survived by the sacrifice of an exceptional woman; Felix in Exile asks how the brutal practices of Apartheid might be survived. In both cases the questions of space and time prove to be basic, opening the possibility of joining the concept of space-time to eco-critical thought.
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Somma, Mark, and Sue Tolleson-Rinehart. "Tracking the Elusive Green Women: Sex, Environmentalism, and Feminism in the United States and Europe." Political Research Quarterly 50, no. 1 (March 1997): 153. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/449033.
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Somma, Mark, and Sue Tolleson-Rinehart. "Tracking the Elusive Green Women: Sex, Environmentalism, and Feminism in the United States and Europe." Political Research Quarterly 50, no. 1 (March 1997): 153–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/106591299705000108.
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Musitu-Ferrer, Daniel, Celeste León-Moreno, Juan Evaristo Callejas-Jerónimo, Macarena Esteban-Ibáñez, and Gonzalo Musitu-Ochoa. "Relationships between Parental Socialization Styles, Empathy and Connectedness with Nature: Their Implications in Environmentalism." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 14 (July 11, 2019): 2461. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16142461.
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Parents exert a strong influence on several adjustment outcomes. However, little is known about their influence on adolescents’ connectedness with the environment. This study examined the relationships between parenting styles, empathy and connectedness with the environment. The two-dimensional socialization model was used with four resulting styles: Indulgent, authoritative, neglectful and authoritarian. The sample comprised 797 adolescents (52.7% girls) from six public secondary schools who were aged between 12 and 16 years (M = 13.94, SD = 1.28). The results showed significant relationships between parental socialization styles, empathy and connectedness with nature. It was also observed that adolescents from indulgent and authoritative families showed higher levels of empathy and connectedness with the environment than adolescents raised by authoritarian and neglectful parents, with males from such families consistently presenting the lowest levels of empathy and connectedness, which was not the case among women. Additionally, women, regardless of the parental style in which they had been educated, showed greater cognitive and emotional empathy with the natural environment, while adolescents raised in indulgent and authoritative families displayed higher levels of empathy and connectedness than those with authoritarian and neglectful parents. These results suggest that indulgent and authoritative styles are stronger enablers of empathy and connectedness with nature.
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D’Amico, Linda. "Cultivating Sustainability Literacy and Public Engagement in Intag, Ecuador." Anthropology in Action 23, no. 2 (June 1, 2016): 4–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/aia.2016.230202.
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AbstractThis article describes ways rural women and men in the Ecuadorian Cloud Forests created regional and trans-regional institutions to develop and sustain effective environmental governance. It traces their interpretation of political ecology within local realities, based on household concerns centred upon water and food security, and how they came to draw upon global discourse and increased civic participation. The article shows how they created communities of practice that came to define local (and glocal1) sustainability. Their proactive and generative approaches to environmentalism – expressed through actions and institutions – are significant, offering examples of expanded social equity and adaptive resilience in the face of change.1Glocal is the connectivity and co-presence of local and global people, ideas and institutions.
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Mandarić, Doroteja, and Prof Dr Sc Anica Hunjet. "Are there gender differences in pro-environmental attitudes? Evidence from Croatia." 15TH GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES ON 14 - 15 SEPTEMBER 2023, NOVOTEL BANGKOK PLATINUM PRATUNAM, THAILAND 15, no. 1 (September 14, 2023): 181. http://dx.doi.org/10.35609/gcbssproceeding.2023.1(181).
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The objective of this research was to investigate potential disparities between genders in terms of their pro-environmental attitudes and mindsets in Croatia. By employing an online survey through snowball sampling, a total of 263 adult participants from Croatia were recruited for the study. The findings in this research indicate that gender plays a role in influencing individuals' environmental attitudes and behaviors, as women exhibit a higher degree of environmental consciousness and environmentally positive manners. Specifically, women demonstrate greater concern for environmental issues in the country, show more support for policies aimed at recycling, and hold a more positive outlook toward health problems caused by ecological problems. This study provides valuable insights into the connection between gender and environmentalism in Croatia, making significant contributions to existing literature. Moreover, it offers implications for the development of policies targeting environmental management and recognizing the need to influence the environmental behavior of the opposite sex. Keywords: Environmental Attitudes, Sustainability, Eco-Awareness, Consumer Behavior
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Grochowska, Irena. "Osobowość ekologiczna płci - badania ankietowe." Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae 6, no. 1 (December 31, 2008): 15–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.21697/seb.2008.6.1.02.
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After analysing the above answers we can deduct some results, which confirm certain behaviour in girls that can be scientifically explained. A survey helped in establishing ecological consciousness and was a help in characterizing a survival persona. Looking at the answers with inclusion of two different sexes we can follow differences in the views concerning environmental protection, the survey results clearly show a difference in approach to the natural environment depending on the sex. Women more clearly see the beauty, harmony and set order in the environment. Nature astonishes them and is a guarantee of life. Analysing the survey results it is not possible not to see the differences in viewing the natural environment. Quoting Estes we can say that mature woman (surviving woman) looking at a forest sees a home for herself and other people, whilst others looking at the same forest imagine cutting down trees and making money on it.
Clean environment allowing life is like air necessary to live and you can only breathe deeply with clean air. It is similar with woman’s psyche where a mechanism of full breath operates and forces her to breathe in the fresh air. The research results confirmed that girls show more concern about harmony and complexity of the natural world and definitely at every opportunity become protectors of life. So a smaller extend that boys they support technological and technical development, they do not see it as a solution to problems connected with degradation of environment.
If you would like to separate pro environment personality types taking into account these characteristic for boys and girls, based on the performed survey, we can present: Rational type , scientific thinker and technocrat, consumer, which is dominant in boys answers and emotional type, esthetic environmentalist which is dominant within girls answers. Woman can show man how to admire nature, how to develop sensitivity and open ones eyes to new perspectives, whose theoretical author is often he himself. It is women who with their hearts read and introduce into life philosophical life and written theological works whose authors are men.
Woman’s task is activity connected with protecting the wisdom of soul, not to accept abnormal state for normal and to hale the courage to celebrate natural forces with elements of Her soul and life, which a priceless treasure of each woman. When women do not follow their voice when intervening in unacceptable situations her views fade, her nature fades and natural world. Love fades as well as the will to repair the world and harmony with nature, The Word lacks fresh air and water, but also the voice of consciousness. Research I have performed confirmed the thesis I had made and allows to precise the desired personality characteristics, needed to shape a survival personality.
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Dalal, Anjali. "Explicating Environmental Patriarchy: An Examination Through Gender and Environment Perspectives." ANTYAJAA: Indian Journal of Women and Social Change 4, no. 2 (November 13, 2019): 145–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2455632719880849.
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Much has been written about the relationship between women, nature and development, a relationship where women’s work, like nature, is often undervalued, in terms of acknowledging the interdependence of women and nature in preservation of environment to foster sustainable growth. Women are perceived as prominent actors in domestic chores as well as contributors to environmental rehabilitation and conservation. However, in comparison to men, their work and knowledge have often been undervalued in both environmental planning and domestic resource management. The existence of environmental patriarchy is, thereby, located at three dimensions; first, women’s exclusion from resource ownership and management; second, women’s exclusion from deliberation of indigenous knowledge; and third, gendered power relationship in society. This article explores the region-specific concerns of women built into theoretical feminist perspectives of the Western world in contrast to the Third World countries, dealt within a theoretical perspective of ecofeminism and feminist environmentalism. However, both the models leave some major theoretical questions unanswered, finally concluded in a perspective as proposed by feminist political ecology. The idea behind doing this is to take account of the various ways of conceptualizing feminist ecological theories so as to emphasize greater role of women in environmental planning and decision-making processes. By simultaneously analysing some environmental movements, it was found that women’s activism was not only sustainable but confronted other social issues and patriarchy in private domain.
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Bracke, Astrid. "Book review of Ecocriticism and Women Writers. Environmentalist Poetics of Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson and Ali Smith // Reseña de Ecocriticism and Women Writers." Artistic Ways of Understanding and Interacting with Nature 6, no. 2 (October 28, 2015): 182–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2015.6.2.677.
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Jordan, Caroline. "Progress versus the Picturesque: white women and the aesthetics of environmentalism in colonial Australia 1820-1860." Art History 25, no. 3 (June 2002): 341–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8365.00325.
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Ruiz de Alegría, Iratxe. "A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains: An Excursion to Empowerment and Environmentalism." Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, no. 88 (2024): 31–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2024.88.03.
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This article proposes a reading of Isabella Bird’s travelogue A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Moun- tains (1879) through the lens of Environmental Studies by focusing on the material and metaphorical uses of nature, scrutinizing the recurrent trope of the mountain, and paying attention to the interaction between the intrepid traveller and nature. While the adventurer deals with the difficulties of the transatlantic pilgrimage, Bird also goes beyond the tradi- tional hymn to the beauty of the landscape in order to condemn the degradation of nature. Arguably, the most valuable insights that this text has to offer beyond empowering women derive precisely from the author’s concern for nature. Bird not only composes an ode to the mountainous scenery in prose, but also an innovative manifesto, where a number of detri- mental consequences of the infamous environmental crises are anticipated well in advance.
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Holtmeier, Matthew, and Chelsea Wessels. "Filmmaking-in-Place." Afterimage 48, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 54–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aft.2021.48.1.54.
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In Meek’s Cutoff (2010) and Eden (2012), filmmakers Kelly Reichardt and Megan Griffiths (respectively) negotiate the interconnection between women, nature, and patriarchal capitalism through their emphasis on place, or one’s separation from it. Ecofeminist aesthetics resonate with regional production when directors emphasize relationships with environments and people over typical neoliberal concerns of production such as cost and infrastructure. A particular political aesthetics emerges when the approach emphasizes building community and the politics of place, rather than the bottom line. Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff shifts from the panoramic landscape shots of the classical Western to allow gendered engagement. This framing redirects the viewer away from the supposedly “male” action and instead focuses on the constant work of the women, which is the real action of survival. In Eden, Griffiths similarly frames human trafficking victim Hyun Jae in closed spaces where she is forced into sex work. Such cinematography is drastically juxtaposed with the open framing that signals potential emancipation. In each film, feminist politics intertwine with aesthetics of space to resist patriarchal capitalism co-opting women’s labor, an approach relevant to both environmentalism and feminism.
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Habsari, Sri Kusumo, Fatkhu Rohmatin, and Istadiyantha Istadiyantha. "Digital ethnography of social media: Srikandi Sungai Indonesia activists in water and river conservation." Masyarakat, Kebudayaan dan Politik 34, no. 1 (February 5, 2021): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/mkp.v34i12021.37-50.
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Women have been recognized as environmental activists and having a greater awareness of ecology worldwide since the 19th century. There are many stories of women activists worldwide who have developed significant models for protecting the environment. Social media’s popularity has changed how activists advocate their ideas to generate awareness and environmental protection participation. This study focuses on the grassroots women who join SSI and actively campaign for water and river conservation through social media. It attempts to identify how they use social media to campaign and analyzes their posts’ digital contents to understand their motivation for challenging the water river degradation and their value systems and insights, which drive them to take action. This study considers social media as cultural artifacts and providing spaces for social interaction. The researchers observe SSI’s posting behaviors and identify how they use social media for environmental activism to obtain the data. The finding shows two kinds of women activists join SSI: those who actively involve and participate in the campaign and those who click to support the activities. It also shows that the environmental activist women use social media to communicate their activities rather than maximizing its function to campaign to change the public perspective and attitude concerning the need to take care of the rivers’ water and riverbanks. Women activists continue to adopt dominant Indonesian patterns and social media use orders. Social media’s function is still seen only as a space for selfies rather than to develop a political message concerning environmentalism.
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Sanders, Jeffrey C. "The Battle for Fort Lawton: Competing Environmental Claims in Postwar Seattle." Pacific Historical Review 77, no. 2 (May 1, 2008): 203–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2008.77.2.203.
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Focusing on Seattle in the 1960s and early 1970s, this article argues that the postwar environmental movement grew out of concerns among urbanites about physical and social changes in the metropolitan context. The ““battle of Fort Lawton”” was a series of protests over the conversion of an old army fort to a ““wilderness park.”” In these protests, women and urban Native Americans offered competing arguments about the meaning and uses of nature in the city. This article traces a growing constituency of environmental activists, broadly defined, whose goals ranged from ““beautification”” in the early 1960s to ““ecology”” in the early 1970s. These struggles over open space demonstrate how definitions of nature and of environmentalism often reflected competing visions of politics and of citizenship in the emerging postindustrial city.
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Falconer, Tara, and Marcos Mortensen Steagall. "Grounding: A Practice-led Graphic Exploration of Ecofeminism, Wellbeing and Ecological Consciousness for Young Women." DAT Journal 8, no. 1 (March 15, 2023): 101–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.689.
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This article presents an artistic practice-led visual design research project that employs a reflective inquiry methodology to write and design a series of outcomes responding to a rhetoric approach that looks at how a female designer can develop connections to nature and how the design outcomes can empower women to care for themselves and the planet. A vast amount of literature articulates nature's healing powers (Miyazaki, 2018; Hardman, 2020). There is also an emergency in thinkers discussing the connections between environmentalism and feminism, looking into the ways nature and women are similarly deemed inferior by patriarchal structures (Escobar, 2018; Gruen, 1993). This research project aims to bring these two views together, looking into the benefits of appreciating nature as a form of self-care to empower and strengthen young women and subsequently increase a desire to care for the depleting natural world. Therefore, this thesis asks: how can communication design strategies and conventions encourage young women to connect with a dialogical relation with nature, fostering wellbeing and ecological consciousness? The study is positioned as a reflective inquiry, meaning that the research process utilises the researcher's personal experiences and writing, with reflections about action, in action and after action, as well as stories and photographs anonymously retrieved from other young women. These inspired an exploration of handmade collages and a graphic set, which led to the generation of a series of outcomes that seek to empower young women to care for themselves through nature. The project has been influenced by overarching issues facing women and nature but approaches them through optimism and positivity. It seeks to highlight the fact that small changes matter, and activism starts from caring for your life and the lives of others, which is what the final outcomes seek to instill in the lives of young women facing an uncertain future.
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Simons, Helen. "Cairo: Repackaging Population Control." International Journal of Health Services 25, no. 3 (July 1995): 559–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/yu6w-nyej-g3c4-m1dg.
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Aid agencies, charities, and other Non-governmental organizations once denounced population control programs as racist interference in the third world. Yet, at the United Nations Conference on Population and Development in Cairo last September, these same organizations endorsed very similar ideas. The U.N. can now claim that even its fiercest critics not only have muted their criticism of population control programs but now positively endorse them. Over the last 30 years, population control has been consciously repackaged by the U.S. establishment. The image of population control has changed from being overtly anti-third world to being about giving the people of the third world—especially women—basic rights in family planning. Wrapped up in the language of women's empowerment and environmentalism, the establishment's old arguments about there being too many nonwhite babies in the world, have, unfortunately, won the day.
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Shen, Bingqing, Qin Wen, and Yiting Zhou. "The influence of Key Opinion Leaders attitudes toward Netizens on public opinion." Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media 3, no. 1 (March 1, 2023): 36–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/3/2022451.
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With the rapid development of the Internet, opinion leaders play a very important role in the guidance of public opinion. Gender equality, epidemic prevention measures, and Environmentalism are all global public opinion topics that have attracted much attention in recent years. In the face of these hot topics, more and more opinion leaders speak enthusiastically and express their attitudes. This study uses Key Opinion Leadership theory and secondary communication theory to explore the impact of Key Opinion Leaders on the three public opinion topics of equal rights between men and women, epidemic prevention measures, and environmental issues. More and more ordinary people pay attention to these events, which are affected by the Key Opinion Leader's attitude and make a positive response. This study made a theoretical contribution that how to promote the harmony and stability of the network environment.
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Cannamela, Danila. "A Fairy-Tale Noir: Rewriting Fairy Tales into Feminist Narratives of Exposure." Quaderni d'italianistica 39, no. 2 (November 6, 2019): 85–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/q.i..v39i2.33262.
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This article introduces the fairy-tale noir, a subgenre of fantasy-noir fiction that is particularly present in the work of Italian women writers, including Laura Pugno, Simona Vinci, Nicoletta Vallorani, and Alda Teodorani. This subgenre adopts fairy-tale topoi and characters to elaborate on the theme of vulnerability from feminist and environmental perspectives. Vulnerability is an intrinsic feature of fairy tales (texts that are continually performed and modified, but that remain “non-appropriable”); it is also a pivotal characteristic of the young protagonists of these fictional universes, who are often exposed to abuse. The twenty-first-century fairy-tale noir redeploys the discourse of bodily exposure typical of traditional fairy tales by engaging in an environmentalist reflection on the experience of exposure that human and nonhuman bodies share. The genre also adopts the theme of vulnerability as openness to change and uses the unconventional families of fairy tales to discuss recent social changes in Italian families. Finally, fantasy noir recasts vulnerability to violence as a potential space of empathy, or biophilia, with the broader, nonhuman “family.” Exploring this overlooked genre ultimately shows how Italian women writers, who are still at the margins of the Nuovo Giallo Italiano, have successfully reinvented a male-dominated genre into a literary lens probing socio-environmental concerns, first and foremost gender discriminations.