Composing with Gaia: Isabelle Stengers and the Feminist Politics of the Earth
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License: CC BY 4.0
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Title
Composing with Gaia: Isabelle Stengers and the Feminist Politics of the Earth
Journal
PhaenEx
ISSN
1911-1576
Publication state
Published
Issued date
05/06/2016
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
11
Number
1
Pages
1-21
Language
english
Abstract
This essay brings the work of Isabelle Stengers into the fold of feminism to propose a feminist politics of the earth that disrupts the fantasy of human exceptionalism underpinning much Anthropocene discourse. I begin by situating Stengers’s political use of Gaia theory in current debates on the Anthropocene. Next, I show how Stengers’s reworking of Gaia helps in reconsidering the relations between two bodies of feminist theory—Deleuzian feminism and Marxist ecofeminism—that are rarely brought into conversation. On this basis, I explore what a feminist politics of composition with the earth might look like.
Keywords
Anthropocene Feminism, Isabelle Stengers, Deleuzian Feminism, materialist ecofeminism
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Yes
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