Why ecosocialism is not enough: ecofeminist reflections on another value form
In the context of contemporary social movement politics, the paper offers an ecofeminist argument that globalisation should be analysed as the effect of a single entangled system, a unity of ‘patriarchal-colonial-capitalist’ practices. On this basis, the author reflects on the emergence of ti...
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In the context of contemporary social movement politics, the paper offers an ecofeminist argument that globalisation should be analysed as the effect of a single entangled system, a unity of ‘patriarchal-colonial-capitalist’ practices. On this basis, the author reflects on the emergence of time dissociation and spatialised abstraction as constitutive of the globally dominant patriarchal episteme; ‘a libidinal rift’ projected in the dualisms of Masculine vs Feminine, North vs South, Production vs Reproduction, Humanity vs Nature. With reference to feminist thinkers from several traditions, the author speculates on the origins of this exploitive ‘1/0 imaginary’ wherein the distinction between production versus reproduction is pivotal. A case is made that to build movement unity in a time of ecological crisis, ecosocialists should recognise dissociated constructs as appear in Marxist productivism and orient their politics around the reproduction of Life- on-Earth. The ‘meta-industrial labours’ of household care-giving and indigenous subsistence economies exemplify this holistic, time sensitive attunement to living processes. An ‘embodied materialism’ would replace the Left focus on use and exchange value with a regenerative eco-centric value form, a ‘meta-value’.
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| spelling | doaj-art-328cf8573e4f4815936d29a08951a1c12024-12-29T11:40:25ZengUniversity of the Free StateActa Academica0587-24052415-04792024-12-0156210.38140/aa.v56i2.8969Why ecosocialism is not enough: ecofeminist reflections on another value form Ariel Salleh In the context of contemporary social movement politics, the paper offers an ecofeminist argument that globalisation should be analysed as the effect of a single entangled system, a unity of ‘patriarchal-colonial-capitalist’ practices. On this basis, the author reflects on the emergence of time dissociation and spatialised abstraction as constitutive of the globally dominant patriarchal episteme; ‘a libidinal rift’ projected in the dualisms of Masculine vs Feminine, North vs South, Production vs Reproduction, Humanity vs Nature. With reference to feminist thinkers from several traditions, the author speculates on the origins of this exploitive ‘1/0 imaginary’ wherein the distinction between production versus reproduction is pivotal. A case is made that to build movement unity in a time of ecological crisis, ecosocialists should recognise dissociated constructs as appear in Marxist productivism and orient their politics around the reproduction of Life- on-Earth. The ‘meta-industrial labours’ of household care-giving and indigenous subsistence economies exemplify this holistic, time sensitive attunement to living processes. An ‘embodied materialism’ would replace the Left focus on use and exchange value with a regenerative eco-centric value form, a ‘meta-value’. http://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/aa/article/view/8969time/space dissociationlibidinal rift1/0 imaginarymeta-industrial labourembodied materialismmeta-value |
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| title | Why ecosocialism is not enough: ecofeminist reflections on another value form |
| title_full | Why ecosocialism is not enough: ecofeminist reflections on another value form |
| title_fullStr | Why ecosocialism is not enough: ecofeminist reflections on another value form |
| title_full_unstemmed | Why ecosocialism is not enough: ecofeminist reflections on another value form |
| title_short | Why ecosocialism is not enough: ecofeminist reflections on another value form |
| title_sort | why ecosocialism is not enough ecofeminist reflections on another value form |
| topic | time/space dissociation libidinal rift 1/0 imaginary meta-industrial labour embodied materialism meta-value |
| url | http://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/aa/article/view/8969 |
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