Review article

ECOLOGICAL FEMINISM OF VANDANA SHIVA

Mirna Žuržulović

Abstract

As opposed to the dominant reductionist paradigm and its reformist environmentalist – in which environmental problems are being solved by the externalization of their costs into the non–developed and developing countries presenting the Western model of development and knowledge as the only acceptable model for the whole mankind – ecofeminism points out at the negative aspects of its uniform activity and possible alternatives. Ecofeminism, being a part of radical ecology, deals with the possibilities of changing the dominant patriarchal paradigm in which nature and women are legitimated as inferior, passive and non–productive categories due to domination and exploitation.
Vandana Shiva, one of the most prominent representatives of ecofeminism, points out at ambiguous problems of such dominant reductionist world–view, which – in fear of its existence – offers no alternatives, but new mechanisms of centralization and global control imposing its development model as universal and the only acceptable cultural, economic and political pattern.

Keywords

ecofeminism; globalization; monoculture of reason; patriarchy; radical ecology; reductionism

Hrčak ID:

141724

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/141724

Publication date:

15.1.2000.

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