EnGender EcoSocialism!

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This second volume in Ariel Sallehs Androscene trilogy brings womens labours in from the margins of ecosocialist thinking. With patriarchal capitalist coloniality the main driving force behind our planets degradation, recognising the racialized and gendered meta-industrial labour class is a vital strategic priority if ecofeminist thinking is to offer a vision of a more sustainable future. If we focus on production purely in terms of growth, we miss what Salleh calls the metabolic value of living processes and with it the opportunity for political ecology to encompass life in all of its dimensions biological, libidinal, ego-driven, moral and political. Cutting across existing Marxist ideas, EnGender EcoSocialism! is an ecofeminist conceptualisation of womens reproductive labour. The ecological challenges that face us demand that we break down the barriers between human and nature that have stood in our consciousness for millennia. This is a call to lay the ground for that breakthrough by healing the libidinal rift caused when we ignore the value of unseen labour in our ecological processes. As it stands, this labour is captured by global capitalism and in turn subsidises it for free by regenerating its living resource base: the earths population. With this book, Salleh illustrates the limits of mending the damage caused by industry and urbanisation without further understanding the immense importance of a combined ecosocialist, ecofeminist approach.

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Ariel Salleh is Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Humanities, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa; former Senior Fellow in Post-Growth Societies, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany and Research Associate in Political Economy, University of Sydney, Australia. She is author and editor of many books including Ecofeminism as Politics (ZED, 2017).