Caring communities for radical change: What can feminist political ecology bring to degrowth?

Stefania Barca; Giovanna Di Chiro; Wendy Harcourt; Ilenia Iengo; Panagiota Kotsila; Seema Kulkarni; Irene Leonardelli; Chizu Sato

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-20928-4_8

Caring communities for radical change: What can feminist political ecology bring to degrowth?

Stefania Barca, Giovanna Di Chiro, Wendy Harcourt^*, Ilenia Iengo, Panagiota Kotsila, Seema Kulkarni, Irene Leonardelli, Chizu Sato

^*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review

15 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

In this chapter, we share the insights of feminist political ecology (FPE) for degrowth, building from the debates on “caring communities for radical change” at the 8th International Degrowth Conference in August 2021. We discuss how FPE links to the principles of degrowth as an academic and activist movement and why it is necessary to take feminist political ecology perspectives on care and caring communities in resisting, questioning, and counteracting the structural racial, gender, and wider social inequalities that uphold and are perpetuated by growth-dependent economic systems. As we critically reflect on the experiences of paid versus unpaid, collectivised versus feminised care work, we argue that care is crucial to social and ecological reproduction in order to build just, sustainable and convivial societies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Contours of Feminist Political Ecology
Editors	W. Harcourt, A. Agostino, R. Elmhirst, M. Gómez, P. Kotsila
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	8
Pages	177-206
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031209284
ISBN (Print)	9783031209277
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20928-4_8
Publication status	Published - 26 Jan 2023

Publication series

Name	Contours of Feminist Political Ecology
ISSN (Print)	2730-7328
ISSN (Electronic)	2730-7336

Access to Document

10.1007/978-3-031-20928-4_8Licence: CC BY

https://edepot.wur.nl/629187Licence: CC BY

15 Citations
1 Chapter
1 Article

Preliminary notes towards caring economies: Postcapitalist feminist political ecology strategies
Sato, C., 2025, In: 経済社会とジェンダー : 日本フェミニスト経済学会誌 : Journal of Feminist Economics Japan. 10, 8, p. 4-31 28 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Open Access
Rural women’s business-led commoning in Mexico and Japan: A transnational feminist analysis
Sato, C., Nakamura, N. & Soto Alarcon, J., 2025, Postcapitalist countrysides: From commoning to community wealth building. Gallent, N., Gkartzios, M., Scott, M. & Purves, A. (eds.). UCL Press, p. 191-211
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

Cite this

Barca, S., Di Chiro, G., Harcourt, W., Iengo, I., Kotsila, P., Kulkarni, S., Leonardelli, I., & Sato, C. (2023). Caring communities for radical change: What can feminist political ecology bring to degrowth? In W. Harcourt, A. Agostino, R. Elmhirst, M. Gómez, & P. Kotsila (Eds.), Contours of Feminist Political Ecology (pp. 177-206). (Contours of Feminist Political Ecology). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20928-4_8

@inbook{f55b30979b2a4f318f5fd2ff0a564a30,

title = "Caring communities for radical change: What can feminist political ecology bring to degrowth?",

abstract = "In this chapter, we share the insights of feminist political ecology (FPE) for degrowth, building from the debates on “caring communities for radical change” at the 8th International Degrowth Conference in August 2021. We discuss how FPE links to the principles of degrowth as an academic and activist movement and why it is necessary to take feminist political ecology perspectives on care and caring communities in resisting, questioning, and counteracting the structural racial, gender, and wider social inequalities that uphold and are perpetuated by growth-dependent economic systems. As we critically reflect on the experiences of paid versus unpaid, collectivised versus feminised care work, we argue that care is crucial to social and ecological reproduction in order to build just, sustainable and convivial societies.",

author = "Stefania Barca and \{Di Chiro\}, Giovanna and Wendy Harcourt and Ilenia Iengo and Panagiota Kotsila and Seema Kulkarni and Irene Leonardelli and Chizu Sato",

year = "2023",

month = jan,

day = "26",

doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-20928-4\_8",

language = "English",

isbn = "9783031209277",

series = "Contours of Feminist Political Ecology",

publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",

pages = "177--206",

editor = "W. Harcourt and A. Agostino and R. Elmhirst and M. G{\'o}mez and P. Kotsila",

booktitle = "Contours of Feminist Political Ecology",

address = "United Kingdom",

}

Barca, S, Di Chiro, G, Harcourt, W, Iengo, I, Kotsila, P, Kulkarni, S, Leonardelli, I & Sato, C 2023, Caring communities for radical change: What can feminist political ecology bring to degrowth? in W Harcourt, A Agostino, R Elmhirst, M Gómez & P Kotsila (eds), Contours of Feminist Political Ecology . Contours of Feminist Political Ecology, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 177-206. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20928-4_8

Caring communities for radical change: What can feminist political ecology bring to degrowth? / Barca, Stefania; Di Chiro, Giovanna; Harcourt, Wendy et al.
Contours of Feminist Political Ecology . ed. / W. Harcourt; A. Agostino; R. Elmhirst; M. Gómez; P. Kotsila. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. p. 177-206 (Contours of Feminist Political Ecology).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review