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Inhalt: Food and Care from a Feminist Political Ecology perspective

This course introduces students to Feminist Political Ecology. We will analyse discourses and practices from diverse regional backgrounds concerning interventions from feminist economics into environmental politics. Ecofeminism is often confronted with the charge of essentialism – is this reading correct? What does Feminist Political Ecology contribute to the current ecological crisis? The first part of the course is a theoretical introduction into the debate.

The second part will explore the multiple facets of food from the agricultural production to the final consumption as a meal. It is focusing on analyzing food from a Feminist Political Ecology perspective and thus introduces care as a central conceptual tool. In order to look at practices and politics of care through, for and with food, empirical case studies from the Global North/South are being discussed, looking at, for example, community food initiatives or kitchen gardens as sites of care.

Bauhardt, Christine (2015): Feministische Kapitalismuskritik und postkapitalistische Alternativen. In: APuZ 35–37/2015, S. 32-39

Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik (Hg.)(2015): Mehr geht nicht! Der Postwachstums-Reader. Berlin: Edition Blätter

Feministische Studien 2/2107: Ökonomie jenseits des Wachstums – feministische Perspektiven auf die (Post)Wachstumsgesellschaft.  Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter