Ecological Debt: Embodied Debt
Feminism and the Ecologically Integrated Politics of the Commons
Silvia Federici & Ariel Salleh
Wednesday, November 11th at 7:00PM
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen Street
New York, New York 10002
http://www.bluestockings.com
In a time of financial meltdown and global warming, alter-globalisation movements look for a shared political analysis – one that is sex-gender literate, culturally inclusive, and grounded materially in nature. Understanding the specific character of peasant, indigenous, and household labor will be critical for an integrated move toward the commons. Such labor models an epistemology that protects ecological integrity and the social metabolism. Ariel Salleh seeks to re-frame political ecology with new concepts like – embodied debt, meta-industrial labour, eco-sufficiency, and metabolic value.
Ariel Salleh will be speaking on themes from her recently edited volume, Eco-Sufficiency & Global Justice: Women Write Political Ecology (Pluto Press, 2009)
Ariel Salleh’s work is widely debated in ecopolitics and her Ecofeminism as Politics (Zed Books, 1997) is a classic in the field. She is published in Environmental Politics, New Left Review, Economic and Political Weekly, Futures, Organization & Environment. A researcher in Political Economy at the University of Sydney, Australia, and a co-editor of Capitalism Nature Socialism, she is a seasoned activist in biodiversity and water politics, and has taught at universities in North America and the Asia-Pacific region.
