Sumários
Revision for exam
8 Janeiro 2025, 15:30 • Chiara Nifosi
Today's class was dedicated to the revision of the main concepts of each chunk of the program in view of the final exam.
Queer ecofeminism + Beyond the gender binary
20 Dezembro 2024, 15:30 • Chiara Nifosi
We finished our discussion on Gaard's text on queer ecofeminism and drew some conclusions about ecofeminist approaches. We also looked at some passages of Alok Vaid-Menon's text "Beyond the gender binary" + video on YouTube (Performance of "Trans/generation": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLPwZZjMqyI).
Queer ecofeminism/1
18 Dezembro 2024, 15:30 • Chiara Nifosi
Today we discussed the theoretical premises of Gaard's argument on queer ecofeminism, namely her use of Plumwood's critique of classical logic in order to introduce the further binary structure heterosexism vs. queer, based - according to her - on erotophobia and the naturalization of sexuality, something that we also see reflected in various historical contexts (the development of Christianity, witch-hunting, colonization, etc.).
Val Plumwood and ecofeminism
13 Dezembro 2024, 15:30 • Chiara Nifosi
Explication and commentary on Val Plumwood's text on dualism and the logic of colonization, preceded by a debate on the definition of ecofeminism. The dualistic formation of otherness as negation; the key elements in the dualistic structure of Western thought; the linking postulates and the organization of dualistic patterns in a network (fundamental oppositions around which all other dualisms develop: humanity, masculinity, reason // Nature, femininity, physical-material).