CRITIQUE-GenderEd Seminar Interlocking Crises, Intersectional Visions: Eco-Feminism in Conversation with Degrowth – 8 February 2023, 3 pm

CRITIQUE-GenderEd Seminar Interlocking Crises, Intersectional Visions: Eco-Feminism in Conversation with Degrowth with Professor Sherilyn MacGregor (University of Manchester).

This seminar explores the theoretical and practical implications of bringing ecological feminism into conversation with degrowth. The speaker will explain how insights from eco-feminist political economy (EPE), a field with a long but often overlooked and misrecognised history, can inform research and policy approaches that are necessary for socio-ecological transformation. She will begin with a brief introduction to eco-feminism and EPE, summarising their histories and signature insights. After laying these foundations, she will discuss four areas of where EPE makes significant contributions to degrowth studies. She will argue for a shift in values away from the ‘master model’ that informs most economic visions (degrowth included) toward comprehensive, transformational solutions to the interlocking ecological, social and economic crises that are informed by intersectional and decolonial eco-feminist praxis.

Professor MacGregor will draw on her recent work on eco-feminist political theory (e.g., see ‘Making matter great again?’ ) and eco-feminist policy research (e.g., see a policy road map for a feminist green new deal for the UK; ‘Caring in a Changing Climate’). This presentation closely follows the content of a chapter she has co-authored with PhD researchers Anna-Marie Köhnke and Aino Ursula Mäki for the forthcoming De Gruyter Handbook of Degrowth, edited by Lauren Eastwood and Kai Heron. Please contact Sherilyn for an unpublished copy of the chapter.

Location: CMB Violet Laidlaw Room.