Perspectives from ecofeminism towards climate change and the Amazon

Abstract

Undoubtedly, climate change has become one of the greatest challenges of our era. Following the inclusion of opposing characters such as Greta Thunberg and Jair Bolsonaro in the environmental scene, the debate on the current socio-ecological crisis has taken on new nuances. In turn, spaces such as the Amazon have brought to the fore the voices that a visibly state-centric discipline with a strong imperial baggage, such as International Relations, has silenced. Unlike those hegemonic discourses based on entropocentric and positivist assumptions, according to ecofeminism, the environmental crisis has its origin in certain processes of domination that have oppressed women, underprivileged social groups and nature. Thus, integrating processes of domination such as colonialism and patriarchy into discussions on the environment becomes imperative in order to confront this type of dominant approaches. Thus, the purpose of this reflection is to glimpse, from a gender perspective, those hegemonic discourses, structures and practices that have made nature and women a subalternized other.