CNS Journal Special Issue: Ecofeminist Responses to Capitalist Extractivism

By Ana Isla, Selina Gallo-Cruz & Leigh Brownhill

Today, humanity faces overlapping existential crises: climate change, the destruction of the biosphere, and persistent ecological imperialism. In fact, these are all one crisis, originating in the violence of capitalism’s global domination through extractivist social, ecological, and economic relations. CNS Journal’s latest Special Issue delves into the belly of the capitalist beast and brings you an instructive collection of responses from ecofeminist perspectives.

A significant consequence of the corporate capture of sustainable development discourse and the attendant ramping-up of extractivist projects has been the bifurcation of extractivism into legal operations (regulated and embraced by states) and illegal operations (unregulated and undertaken by private actors, including criminal syndicates). To complement these analyses, we must propose new horizons where social movements converge, centering the voices of the daughters of rebellion and their vision for a new future.

Our Special Issue features contributors’ works in these three sections advance ecofeminist frameworks to explore ongoing processes of and struggle against the perpetuation of the conditions, relations, and results of the eco-imperialism through which extractivisms are pursued, including racism, patriarchy, war, climate change, and ecological destruction.

Image: Photographer: Samuel Warom. Courtesy of: Environmental Defenders