Ecofeminism as decolonial and transindividual ecology

Authors

  • Chiara Bottici New School for Social Research, Nova Iorque, Estados Unidos da América
  • Thiago César Carvalho dos Santos Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4167-1308

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53981/destroos.v2i2.37737

Keywords:

feminism, ecology, coloniality, patriarchy, democracy

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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Author Biographies

  • Chiara Bottici, New School for Social Research, Nova Iorque, Estados Unidos da América

    É Doutora em filosofia pela University of Florence (1999) e em Ciências Sociais e Políticas pelo European University Institute. É professora associada em Filosofia na New School for Social Research, e Diretora dos estudos de Gênero e Sexualidade. E-mail: botticic@newschool.edu

  • Thiago César Carvalho dos Santos, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasil

    Mestre em Direito e Justiça pelo Programa de Pós-graduação em Direito da UFMG, com bolsa CAPES. Bacharel em Direito pela PUC Minas. Pesquisador do grupo “O estado de exceção no Brasil contemporâneo: para uma leitura crítica do argumento de emergência no cenário político-jurídico nacional”. E-mail: carvalho.thiagoc@gmail.com

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Published

2022-04-17

How to Cite

BOTTICI, Chiara. 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: 27 feb. 2026.

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