Feminist Political Ecology and the Economics of Care

Christine Bauhardt is Professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, where she heads the division of Gender and Globalisation. The division focuses on the impacts of global political restructuring on economic and gender relations in different societies with respect to both urban and rural areas.Wendy Harcourt is Professor of Gender, Diversity and Sustainable Development and Westerdijk Professor at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She is also Coordinator of the EU H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN) WEGO (Well-being, Ecology, Gender, and Community).

• 1. Introduction: Conversations on Care in Feminist Political Economy and Ecology, Wendy Harcourt and Christine Bauhardt. 2. Nature, Care and Gender – Feminist Dilemmas, Christine Bauhardt. 3. White Settler Colonial scientific fabulations on otherwise narratives of care, Wendy Harcourt. 4. Environmental Feminisms: a story of different encounters, Karijn van den Berg. 5. Climate Change, Natural Disasters and the Spillover Effects on Unpaid Care. The Case of Super-Typhoon Haiyan, Maria S. Floro and Georgia Poyatzis. 6. Care-full Community Economies, Kelly Dombroski, Stephen Healy and Katharine McKinnon. 7. Care as Wellth: Internalising Care by Democratising Money, Mary Mellor. 8. Diverse ethics for diverse economies: considering the ethics of embodiment, difference and inter-corporeality at Kufunda, Pamela Richardson-Ngwenya and Andrea J. Nightingale. 9. Striving towards what we do not know yet: Living Feminist Political Ecology in Toronto’s food network, Carla Wember. 10. ‘The garden has improved my life’: Agency and Food Sovereignty of women in Urban Agriculture in Nairobi, Joyce-Ann Syhre and Meike Brückner. 11. Transnational Reconfigurations of Re/production and the Female Body: Bioeconomics, Motherhoods and the Case of Surrogacy in India, Christa Wichterich. 12. Menstrual politics in Argentina and diverse assemblages of care, Jacqueline Gaybor. 13. Bodies, Aspirations and the Politics of Place: Learning from the Women Brickmakers of La Ladrillera, Azucena Gollaz Morán. 14. Towards an urban agenda from a feminist political ecology and care perspective, Ana Agostino. Index

"This book aims to develop a feminist political ecology, which will enrich ecological economics and feminist economics, by integrating experience-based knowledge. With examples from struggles to cope with social and environmental degradation, it builds a bridge from human values, feminist values, care values, nature values, and solidarity values into economic thinking and policy, challenging the mainstream approach of expressing values in economic terms.", Iulie Aslaksen ecological and feminist economist "This outstanding book traces the possibilities offered by linking feminist political ecology and feminist economics. It brings out an innovative analytical and normative framework, develops economic alternatives as transformative praxis and shows that care can contribute not only towards transforming economies but also society and politics to become intrinsically caring for humans and non-humans.", Daniela Gottschlich, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany