Ecofeminism

Required: Robin Wall Kimmerer, “Learning the Grammar of Animacy,” in Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Minnesota: Milkweed Editions, 2013): 48-59.

Required: Greta Gaard, “Eco-Feminism on the Wing: Perspectives on Human-Animal Relations,” Women and Environments 4 (2001): 440-443.

Required: Sascha Pare, “Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same. But why?” europe-and-appear-to-be-teaching-others-to-do-the-same-but-why

Required: Sascha Pare, “White Gladis the Orca may have been pregnant when she started attacking the boats” have-been-pregnant-when-she-started-attacking-boats

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Required: Robin Wall Kimmerer, “Collateral Damage,” in Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Minnesota: Milkweed Editions, 2013): 348-360.

Required: Week Six: Ecofeminism and the Eating of Animals (February 13)

Required: Maneesha Deckha, “Veganism, dairy, and decolonization” Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 11, no. 2 (2020): 244-267.

Required: Tom Tyler and Carol J Adams, “An Animal Manifesto: Gender, Identity, and Vegan-Feminism in the Twenty-First Century” Parallax 12, no. 1 (2006): 120-128

Required: Week Eight: Narratives (February 27)

Required: Thomas King, “‘You’ll Never Believe What Happened’ is Always a Great Way to Start,” 2003, McGill University Montreal, CBC Radio, 54:22

Required: Carolyn Merchant, “A Garden Planet,” in Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture (New York: Routledge, 2003), 1-9.

Required: Laura Piersol and Nora Timmerman, “Reimagining environmental education within academia: Storytelling and dialogue as lived ecofeminist politics,” The Journal of Environmental Education, 48, no. 1 (2017): 10-17.

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Required: Shelly Carmen Collette, “Implications: Eroticizing Environmentalism,” in The Garden, the Serpent, and Eve: An Ecofeminist Narrative Analysis of Garden of Eden Imagery in Fashion Magazine Advertising (University of Ottawa: PhD Thesis, 2012), 218-241.

Required: Robin Wall Kimmerer, “Skywoman Falling,” in Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Minnesota: Milkweed Editions, 2013): 2-10.

Required: Week Nine: Resistance (March 6)

Required: Main Readings Jessica Hernandez, “Tierra Madre: Indigenous Women and Ecofeminism” in Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science (Huichin/Berkley: North Atlantic Books, 2022): 155

Required: Naomi Klein, “Care and Repair: Left Politics in the Age of Climate Change” Dissent 67, no. 1 (2020): 97-108.

Required: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, A Short History of the Blockade: Giant

Required: Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2021): 1-17.

Required: Nelly P. Stromquist, “In Search of the Good Life: Promises and Challenges of Buen Vivir for Knowledge, Education, and Gender” in Educational Alternatives in Latin America: New Modes of Counter-Hegemonic Learning (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019): 39-62.

Required: Week Ten: Capitalism (March 13)

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Required: Terran Giacomini, “Ecofeminism and system change,” Canadian Women’s Studies/Les cahiers de la femme 31, no. 1/2 (2014): 95-100.

Required: Vandana Shiva, “Capitalist Patriarchy has Aggravated Violence Against Women” Democracy Now (2013):

Required: Khayaat Fakier and Jacklyn Cock, “Eco-feminist organizing in South Africa: Reflections on the feminist table,” Capitalism Nature Socialism 29, no. 1

Required: Ingrid R. G. Waldron, “Racial Capitalism: Addressing Environmental Racism’s Profit Motive” in There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities (Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2018): 44-49.

Required: Mirela Holy, Marija Geiger Zeman and Zdenko Zeman, “From ecofeminist theories to ecofeminist practice: Women, sustainability and ethical consumerism,” in The Sustainability Debate: Policies, Gender and the Media (Emerald Publishing Ltd., 2021): 123-140.

Required: Week Eleven: Essay Workshop (recorded), no class!

Required: Week Twelve: Queer Theory and Ecofeminism (March 27)

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Required: Asame Ourkiya, “Queering Ecofeminism: Towards an Anti-Far-Right Environmentalism” Network in Canadian History & Environment (2020).

Required: pattrice jones, “Queer Eros in the Enchanted Forest: The Spirit of Stonewall as Sustainable Energy” QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 6, no. 2

Required: Jonathan M. Gray, “Heteronormativity without Nature: Toward a Queer Ecology,” QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 4, no. 2 (2017): 137

Required: Katie Hogan, “Undoing Nature: Coalition Building as Queer Environmentalism,” in Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010): 231-252.

Required: Astrida Neimanis and Catriona Sandilands, “A Very Queer Nature: On Queer Ecologies, Gardens, and Flourishing Multispecies Practices,” Sydney Environment Institute: Opinions (2018).

Required: Week Thirteen: Ecofeminist Futures (April 3)

Required: Main Readings: Robin Wall Kimmerer, “All Flourishing is Mutual” in The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (New York: Scribner Publishing, 2024): 1-26.

Required: Leigh Brownhill and Terisa E. Turner, “Ecofeminist Ways, Ecosocialist Means: Life in the Post-capitalist Future,” Capitalism Nature Socialism 31, no. 1 (2020): 1-14.

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