Gender a výzkum | Gender and Research; Ivy Helman and Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová (Web)

Proposals by: 31.12.2026

Environmental crises, climate disruption, and extractivist petromodernity have come to existence not only as products of the global capitalist system, but equally significantly as products of cisheteropatriarchal structures. This mono-thematic issue of Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research titled Ecofeminisms and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Environment takes this position as a departure for investigation of political, academic, social, cultural, spiritual, and epistemic responses to life on a planet, whose capacity to sustain lifeworlds and ecosystems as we currently know them, has been and is continually being compromised by human actions.
As the world tips closer and closer to the 1.5 degree Celsius rise in global temperatures and 2024 and 2025 were yet more years with the highest temperatures recorded, with the current year possibly following suit, the very existence of a healthy, thriving planet is at risk not only for human societies, but also for our non-human relatives. Attempts to solve the global climate disruption and the current state resulting from industrial devastation include, in international and larger governmental circles, lessening our dependence on fossil fuels, switching to sustainable energy sources, lowering carbon emissions, eliminating the environmental impact of and/or ending animal agriculture, addressing overpopulation, and preventing species extinction. Policies that respond to such topics are articulated in diverse green movements, deep ecologies, and ecological conservation efforts, as well as environmental resistances, indigenous decolonial projects and local activisms. Yet, due to democratic backsliding, many existing solutions are not necessarily as beneficial to the planet as they could be, offering bandaids to larger issues, such as technological fixes as mitigations to climate change, and even serve the needs of late-stage capitalist patriarchy without those in political and economic charge having to change much if any of their wasteful habits. In other words, many dominant political, economic and technological proposals and discussions almost completely ignore what will bring about actual sustainable environmental change as detailed within ecological, environmentalist, and ecofeminist circles already since the late 1960s and early 1970s; that is system-wide change, criticism of anthropocentrism, the end of patriarchy and of colonialist and capitalist exploitation of environmental resources and physical bodies, both human and non-human (Salleh, 1992; Vance 1997; Mellor, 1997; Mies and Shiva, 2014). Read more … (Web)

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