Practising Feminist Political Ecologies

Wendy Harcourt is associate professor at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University. She was editor-in-chief of the journal Development from 1995 to 2012 and during that period published five books, including Women and Politics of Place with Arturo Escobar (2005). Her monograph Body Politics in Development: Critical Debates in Gender and Development (Zed Books, 2009) received the 2010 Feminist and Women’s Studies Association’s Prize. She is currently completing three books on transnational feminism, embodiment and civic change, and gender and development, and is editor of the book series Gender, Development and Social Change.Ingrid L. Nelson is assistant professor in the Department of Geography and the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Vermont. She completed her PhD in geography and a graduate certificate in women’s and gender studies from the University of Oregon. Her research in Mozambique examines masculinities, class and gender dynamics in forest conservation; afforestation ‘land grabs’; and illegal timber trade contexts. She is currently preparing a monograph focused on the practices and rumours that make forest landscapes in Mozambique. Beyond academia, she contributed to the Women’s Major Group submission for the ‘zero draft’ document, leading up to Rio+20.

• Introduction: are we 'green' yet? And the violence of asking such a question - Wendy Harcourt and Ingrid L. NelsonSection I: Positioning feminist political ecology1. A situated view of feminist political ecology from my networks, roots and territories - Dianne Rocheleau2. Contesting green growth, connecting care, commons and enough - Christa Wichterich3. Life, nature and gender otherwise: feminist reflections and provocations from the Andes - Catherine WalshSection II: Rethinking feminist political ecology4. Feminist political ecology and the (un)making of 'heroes': encounters in Mozambique - Ingrid L. Nelson5. Hegemonic waters and rethinking natures otherwise - Leila M. Harris6. Challenging the romance with resilience: communities, scale and climate change - Andrea J. NightingaleSection III: Living feminist political ecology7. A new spelling of sustainability: engaging feminist-environmental justice theory and practice - Giovanna Di Chiro8. The slips and slides of trying to live feminist political ecology - Wendy Harcourt9. Knowledge about, knowledge with: dilemmas of researching lives, nature and genders otherwise - Larissa Barbosa da Costa, Rosalba Icaza and Angélica María Ocampo Talero10. World-wise otherwise stories for our endtimes: conversations on queer ecologies - Wendy Harcourt, Sacha Knox and Tara Tabassi

This outstanding volume at last brings us a much-awaited sequel to the highly acclaimed Feminist Political Ecology. It illustrates like no other book I know the unprecedented coalitions being pioneered by women in regions across the world.