Feminist Political EcologyPapers

Gonda uses climate adaptation in Nicaragua to show how feminist political ecology can return power, emotion, subjectivity, and politics to gender and climate policy.

Gaard responds to anti-essentialist critiques of ecofeminism and argues for retaining its ability to connect gender, race, class, colonialism, species, and environmental justice.

Arora-Jonsson critiques two recurring climate narratives: women as especially vulnerable and women as naturally more virtuous environmental actors.

MacGregor critiques the absence of feminist social analysis in climate change research and calls for attention to power, subjectivity, care, consumption, and political agency.

Drawing on community forestry in Nepal, Nightingale shows gender not as a fixed identity but as a process produced through labor, embodiment, affect, ecological practice, and power.

Agarwal critiques essentialist ecofeminist claims through Indian cases, shifting attention to land, class, caste, labor, and control over resources.