The course is closely linked to the seminar on Water Worries taught by Merle Büter (53950). We highly recommend following both courses. The same class is offered to the students of the Albrecht Daniel Thaer institute under the title of “Gender Analysis in Economics”. close

This course introduces students to feminist environmentalism. We will analyse discourses and practices from diverse regional backgrounds concerning feminist and queer interventions into environmental politics. The binary construction und mutual exclusion of nature and culture, body and mind, production and reproduction, masculinity and femininity, have a long-standing history that deeply mark human-nature-relationships. Ecofeminism is often confronted with the charge of essentialism – is this reading correct? What does Feminist Political Ecology contribute to the current ecological crisis? How have feminist and queer movements influenced environmental policies on global and local levels? close