Toward a postcapitalist feminist political ecology’ approach to the commons and commoning

Feminist scholars are deeply involved in current global debates surrounding natural resource management. Looking at feminists’ engagement through the entry point of the commons and commoning, feminists’ voices are diverse. Somewhat separate from feminist discussions on commons and commoning, scholar...

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Main Authors: Chizu Sato, Jozelin María Soto Alarcón
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals (Publishing Services) 2019-05-01
Series:International Journal of the Commons
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Online Access:https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/933
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spelling doaj-7710f2c73a8f47de8129e09563536ade2020-11-25T03:02:44ZengUtrecht University Library Open Access Journals (Publishing Services)International Journal of the Commons1875-02812019-05-01131366110.18352/ijc.933423Toward a postcapitalist feminist political ecology’ approach to the commons and commoningChizu Sato0Jozelin María Soto Alarcón1Wageningen UniversityInstituto de Ciencias Económico Administrativas (ICEA), Universidad Autónoma del Estado de HidalgoFeminist scholars are deeply involved in current global debates surrounding natural resource management. Looking at feminists’ engagement through the entry point of the commons and commoning, feminists’ voices are diverse. Somewhat separate from feminist discussions on commons and commoning, scholars of postcapitalist community economies have recently linked their scholarship to the study of commoning. This essay expands feminist political ecology’s approaches to the study of the commons and commoning by integrating some insights from existing eco- and autonomist Marxist feminims as well as postcapitalist community economies. We first discuss a postcapitalist feminist political ecology’ perspective. After introducing our site and methods, we explore the productivity of this framework through examination of the case of a women-led cooperative that has been producing agave syrup in rural Mexico for the last two decades. To conclude, we discuss several insights this approach may offer for transformative politics.https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/933feminist political ecologycommunity economiescommoningmultispeciescooperativesmexico
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author Chizu Sato
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Toward a postcapitalist feminist political ecology’ approach to the commons and commoning
International Journal of the Commons
feminist political ecology
community economies
commoning
multispecies
cooperatives
mexico
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Jozelin María Soto Alarcón
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title Toward a postcapitalist feminist political ecology’ approach to the commons and commoning
title_short Toward a postcapitalist feminist political ecology’ approach to the commons and commoning
title_full Toward a postcapitalist feminist political ecology’ approach to the commons and commoning
title_fullStr Toward a postcapitalist feminist political ecology’ approach to the commons and commoning
title_full_unstemmed Toward a postcapitalist feminist political ecology’ approach to the commons and commoning
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publisher Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals (Publishing Services)
series International Journal of the Commons
issn 1875-0281
publishDate 2019-05-01
description Feminist scholars are deeply involved in current global debates surrounding natural resource management. Looking at feminists’ engagement through the entry point of the commons and commoning, feminists’ voices are diverse. Somewhat separate from feminist discussions on commons and commoning, scholars of postcapitalist community economies have recently linked their scholarship to the study of commoning. This essay expands feminist political ecology’s approaches to the study of the commons and commoning by integrating some insights from existing eco- and autonomist Marxist feminims as well as postcapitalist community economies. We first discuss a postcapitalist feminist political ecology’ perspective. After introducing our site and methods, we explore the productivity of this framework through examination of the case of a women-led cooperative that has been producing agave syrup in rural Mexico for the last two decades. To conclude, we discuss several insights this approach may offer for transformative politics.
topic feminist political ecology
community economies
commoning
multispecies
cooperatives
mexico
url https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/933
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