Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Special Dossier - Constituent and destituent: powers, potencials and (des)instituting thought (jul/dec 2021)
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Ecofeminism as decolonial and transindividual ecology

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Chiara Bottici
New School for Social Research, Nova Iorque, Estados Unidos da América
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Thiago César Carvalho dos Santos
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasil
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Published 2022-04-17

Keywords

  • feminism,
  • ecology,
  • coloniality,
  • patriarchy,
  • democracy

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Ecofeminism as decolonial and transindividual ecology. (Des)troços: revista de pensamento radical, Belo Horizonte, v. 2, n. 2, p. 163–186, 2022. DOI: 10.53981/destroos.v2i2.37737. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/revistadestrocos/article/view/37737. Acesso em: 23 dec. 2024.

Abstract

In this essay, I combine decolonial ecofeminism with a philosophy of transindividuality. The latter depicts a form of somatic communism, in which every individuality is conceived as a transindividuality, that is a process of becoming that takes place at the supra, inter and infra-individual level. By questioning all rigid boundaries, along with the hierarchies that they sustain, a transindividual ecology is also a queer ecology.

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