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A review by lattelibrarian
Ecofeminism by Maria Mies
4.0
Ya girl LOVES bringing up hot topics such as ecofeminism and environmental justice and what we as consumers need to do about such topics and this book gave me loads of information with which to fire back. As it would turn out, while factories and companies do cause a lot of harm, so do consumers! And it's our job to help. Not only that, but screw recycling and reducing, we need to flat out refuse. I've been saying these things for so long, and this book has just given me the academic ammunition I need.
Both Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, upon agreeing to coauthor this book, decided to only write about their own countries and perspectives and experiences--to try to write a book with a mutual understanding and mutual goal in sight for both a daughter of Germany and a daughter of India would be too difficult, and perhaps counterproductive. Both highly-industrialized countries and colonized countries have vastly different goals. For example, industrialized countries are dealing with carbon, CO2, pollution, so on and so forth. Colonized countries deal with factories, environmental racism, garbage deposits, and more. The problems can't necessarily be conflated, but there are solutions and ideological shifts that folks in either country can make in order to make our world more livable.
On the academic side of things, I find that this book was well-sourced, well-argued, and well-cited. They bring in interesting concepts such as consumerism, surrogate mothers, Chernobyl, and more in order to make their point: there is something we can all do for each other, and something we can all do for this earth, despite what billionaires may have us believe.
Most shocking to me, however, is that I'm personally still making the same arguments today, despite this book being published in 1993. It's older than I am, yet so few people understand the very real and necessary individual actions we need to make in order to become a collective. It only goes to show that this book is as important as ever, and hugely necessary in the world of ecofeminism and environmental justice.
Review cross-listed here!
Both Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, upon agreeing to coauthor this book, decided to only write about their own countries and perspectives and experiences--to try to write a book with a mutual understanding and mutual goal in sight for both a daughter of Germany and a daughter of India would be too difficult, and perhaps counterproductive. Both highly-industrialized countries and colonized countries have vastly different goals. For example, industrialized countries are dealing with carbon, CO2, pollution, so on and so forth. Colonized countries deal with factories, environmental racism, garbage deposits, and more. The problems can't necessarily be conflated, but there are solutions and ideological shifts that folks in either country can make in order to make our world more livable.
On the academic side of things, I find that this book was well-sourced, well-argued, and well-cited. They bring in interesting concepts such as consumerism, surrogate mothers, Chernobyl, and more in order to make their point: there is something we can all do for each other, and something we can all do for this earth, despite what billionaires may have us believe.
Most shocking to me, however, is that I'm personally still making the same arguments today, despite this book being published in 1993. It's older than I am, yet so few people understand the very real and necessary individual actions we need to make in order to become a collective. It only goes to show that this book is as important as ever, and hugely necessary in the world of ecofeminism and environmental justice.
Review cross-listed here!