What would a just approach to ‘sustainability’ look like that supports ‘life-making’ in all its forms? In this special Political Ecology lecture, Professor Giovanna Di Chiaro will discuss the intersections between social reproduction theory and environmental justice praxis.
- Date
- Wednesday 12 Jun 2024, 15:30 - 17:30
- Type
- Seminar
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Aula A
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
- Ticket information
No registration required to attend this event. Please contact Professor Wendy Harcourt if you have any queries.
In this special Political Ecology seminar, Professor Giovanna Di Chiro will share her research on social reproduction and the impact of the climate crisis.
Di Chiaro argues for the importance of building intersections between social reproduction theory and environmental justice praxis.
Using a critical ecofeminist lens, she will examine how neoliberal 'green' solutions to the climate crisis have not taken seriously the material effects of embodiment and the capacity for communities (human and non-human) to accomplish social reproduction – that is, the capacity to sustain everyday life and to thrive into the future.
What would a just approach to ‘sustainability’ look like that supports ‘life-making’ in all its forms, even — or especially — in the wake of the ruins of capitalism?
She provides examples of how environmental justice and reproductive justice activists from marginalized communities demonstrate the intersections between the health of their environments and the health and survival into the future of their bodies, lands and communities.
About the speaker
Giovanna Di Chiro is Professor of Environmental Studies at Swarthmore College, USA where she teaches courses on environmental justice theory, ecofeminism(s) and community sustainability, and coordinates the Environmental Justice & Community Resilience Program.
She has published and lectured widely on the topics of environmental and climate justice movements, human rights, feminism and ecology, and food security. She has collaborated with and served as a faculty partner with environmental justice organizations focusing on environmental health, urban agriculture and food justice, biocolonialism and ‘just’ sustainability.
She co-editor of Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power (U of Minnesota Press) and is completing a book entitled Worldmaking from the Ground Up: The Praxis of Environmental Justice (U of California Press).
- Related links
- Political Ecology research group
