Sherilyn MacGregor on "Heat and Light: Why Environmentalism (Still) Needs Feminism"
Lunchtime Colloquium
24.07.2014 12:00 – 14:00
Location: Katholische Hochschulgemeinde (KHG), Leopoldstr. 11
Sherilyn MacGregor (Keele University) will present on "Heat and Light: Why Environmentalism (Still) Needs Feminism."
Given their similar histories, political aims and public image problems, environmentalism and feminism -- as social movements and interdisciplinary fields of scholarship -- should be natural allies. And yet the two have travelled separate paths with relatively little to do with each other for the past forty years. With some exceptions, environmentalism has tended to ignore gender questions and feminism has tended to overlook environmental questions. Why is this so? What are the consequences? The purpose of this talk is, first, to consider some reasons for why there continues to be a lack of engagement between environmentalist and feminist scholars and, second, to offer arguments for why environmentalism would be better off if it took feminist critiques and visions more seriously. The aim is to challenge the assumption that feminist ideas generate ‘more heat than light’ - that they make people angry but don't provide answers.
The Lunchtime Colloquium is free and open to the public.
Snacks are served at 12:00; the lecture starts at 12:30.
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