Forces of Reproduction

Notes for a Counter-Hegemonic Anthropocene

Stefania Barca author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:26th Nov '20

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Forces of Reproduction cover

Revealing the gender, class, race and species inequalities that have made the Anthropocene, this Element offers tools for undoing it.

This Element will develop a counter-hegemonic narrative based on earthcare labour – or the 'forces of reproduction'. Adopting a narrative justice approach, and placing feminist political ecology right at the core of its critique of the Anthropocene storyline, this Element offers a novel contribution to the environmental humanities.The concept of Anthropocene has been incorporated within a hegemonic narrative that represents 'Man' as the dominant geological force of our epoch, emphasizing the destruction and salvation power of industrial technologies. This Element develops a counter-hegemonic narrative based on the perspective of earthcare labour – or the 'forces of reproduction'. It brings to the fore the historical agency of reproductive and subsistence workers as those subjects that, through both daily practices and organized political action, take care of the biophysical conditions for human reproduction, thus keeping the world alive. Adopting a narrative justice approach, and placing feminist political ecology right at the core of its critique of the Anthropocene storyline, this Element offers a novel and timely contribution to the environmental humanities.

ISBN: 9781108813952

Dimensions: 229mm x 151mm x 6mm

Weight: 140g

75 pages