In Solidarity with the Earth A Multi-Disciplinary Theological Engagement with Gender, Mining and Toxic Contamination
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Hilda P. Koster is the Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto Associate Professor of Ecological Theology and the Director of the Elliott Allen Institute for Theology and Ecology, Regis St Michael’s Faculty of Theology at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Celia Deane-Drummond is Director of the Laudato Si’ Research Institute and Senior Research Fellow in Theology, Campion Hall at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
Given the devastating impact of extractive industries on ecosystems and on Indigenous communities, the paucity of engagements with mining from the perspective of ecotheology constitutes a serious caveat, not least where such mining is situated in countries of the global South. This volume offers a well-balanced and most welcome correction in this regard, especially given its recognition of vulnerabilities of gender. As the editors note, the volume focuses mainly on South and North America so that such a volume should now be supplemented with similar engagements, especially from an African perspective.
Ernst M. Conradie, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
It is a rare book project that can summon the cooperative, multi-disciplinary scholarly analysis and advocacy needed to address today’s economic practices and ecological crises. This book does just that. It explores parallel forms of extraction – of life and resources – from the earth and marginalized people. It includes diverse, global scholarly perspectives from the natural and social sciences, gender studies, indigenous perspectives and religion. Avoiding overgeneralizations and un-grounded theory, the focus here is decidedly particular and local in focus. Best yet, this book tests and interrogates research across several academic disciplines by engaging local, on-the-ground practitioners and non-profit workers in order to effect real change.
Marit Trelstad, Pacific Lutheran University, USA
Human solidarity can no longer concern our relationship with other humans only but must include our responsibility for all aspects of the planet. This book provides an extensive and convincing argument for such solidarity and depicts in nuance and detail what lack of such solidarity has implied. By analyzing accelerated forms of extractivism that are destroying ecological systems, land-based livelihoods, and cultures at an unprecedented scale, it also identifies the often-ignored gendered dimension that causes women’s suffering in the face of planetary destruction. The present volume documents both destruction and constructive possibilities for active response. In a literally “down to earth” approach, it represents an important contribution to empirical knowledge and ethical and theological reflection on matters that should concern everyone.
Jan-Olav Henriksen, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway
With precision, methodological rigor, and insight, the authors in this volume foreground the vital and often-toxic interconnections among gender, extraction, and environmental degradation. The authors' areas of expertise and the editors' thoughtful pairings of practitioners and scholars make this volume important in structure as well as content.
Christiana Zenner, Fordham University, USA
Based on case studies, the book creates a multidisciplinary conversation on the gendered vulnerabilities resulting from extractive industries and toxic pollution, and also charts the resilience and courage of women as they resist polluting industries, fight for clean water and seek to protect the land. While ecumenical in scope, the book takes its departure from the concept of integral ecology introduced in Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’.
The first three sections of the book focus on the social and ecological challenges facing minoritized women and their communities that are related to mining, pollutants and biodiversity loss, and toxicity. The final section of the book focuses on the possibilities and obstacles to global solidarity. All chapters offer a cross disciplinary response to a particular local situation, tracing the ways ecological destruction, resulting from extraction and toxic contamination, affects the lives of women and their communities. The book pays careful attention to the political, economic, and legal structures facilitating these life-threatening challenges. Each section concludes with a response from a ‘practitioner’ in the field, representing an ecclesial organization or NGO focused on eco-justice advocacy in the global South, or minority communities in the global North.
Introduction, Hilda P. Koster (University of Toronto, Canada) and Celia Deane-Drummond (University of Oxford, UK)
Chapter 1: Human Rights and the Vulnerabilities of Gender in the Context of Climate Emergency and Extractive Industries, Linda Hogan (Trinity College, Ireland)
Part 1: Mining
Chapter 2: Toxic Environments, Denise Humphreys Bebbington (Clark University, USA)
Chapter 3: Countering Colonial Mining: Water Protectors, Environmental Justice and the Creation Community of Saints, Marion Grau (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)
A Practitioner's Response to Denise Humphreys Bebbington and Marion Grau, Marianna Leite (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Part 2: Pollutants and Biodiversity Loss
Chapter 4: Understanding the Impact of Environmental Contaminants on Women from Industrial Pollutants, Felicia Jefferson with B. S. Rheygan Reed and Sierra Cloud (Fort Valley State University, USA)
Chapter 5: The Ecological Kairos: Theological Reflections on the Threat of Environmental Plastics to Organismal and Environmental Health, Oliver Putz (University of Oxford, UK)
A Practitioner's Response to Felicia Jefferson and Oliver Putz, Kailean Khongsai (A Rocha, UK)
Part 3: Toxicology
Chapter 6: Toxicity in the Times of Project-Based Development: Indigenous Women Facing Oil and Gold Pollution in the Peruvian Amazon, Deborah Delgado Pugley (Catholic University of Peru, Peru)
Chapter 7: Mining and Women’s Activism: Still Under the Surface of Catholic Social Teaching, Lisa Sowle Cahill (Boston College, USA)
A Practitioner's Response to Deborah Delgado Pugley and Lisa Sowle Cahill, Dr. Kuzipa Nalwamba (World Council of Churches, Switzerland)
Part 4: Global Solidarity
Chapter 8: #FRACKOFF: Towards a Decolonial, Eco-Feminist Theological Engagement with Fracking and the MMIWG2S Crisis on the Berthold Reservation in North Dakota, Hilda P. Koster (University of Toronto, Canada)
Chapter 9: Rare Earth and Rare Practice of 'Integral Ecology': A Feminist Post-Colonial Reading of ‘Save Malaysia, Stop Lynas’ Protests, Sharon A. Bong (Monash University, Malaysia)
A Practitioner's Response to Sharon Bong and Hilda Koster, Josianne Gauthier (CIDSE, Belgium)
Theological Vision; Political Implications
Chapter 10: Solidarities of Difficult Difference: Towards A Conviviality of the Earth, Catherine Keller (Drew University, USA)
Epilogue: Are We Ready to Listen? Tebaldo Vinciguerra
Bibliography
Index
This international book series promotes creative and innovative theological engagements at the intersection of gender and ecology. The series aims to publish books that respond theologically to the multiple changes at different levels in the environmental landscape—such as evolution, climate change, biodiversity, Anthropocene, extinction and de-extinction, technological innovation, food security, animal ethics and other geo-political concerns—and the various ways these changes interact with issues of gender and sexuality. To this end, the books published in this series may intersect with the following fields of study: critical theories of gender, race, class and sexuality; evolutionary and ecological science; new materialism; affect theory; animal studies; and Indigenous cultures and spirituality.
An important characteristic of this series is its emphasis on the engagement with Judeo-Christian theology. The precise form of theological engagement may vary, including potential for inter-theological dialogue with other theological traditions. Thus the series will consider studies in systematic, constructive, fundamental, philosophical, biblical theology, moral theology or theological ethics (or a combination of these), including works that draw on either traditional theological sources from particular denominational traditions or religious studies’ methodologies. The series will include studies working within an eco-feminist/womanist/mujerista theological framework. Whatever theological discipline or framework is chosen, the series operates with the assumption that issues of gender and ecology raise important questions for Christian theological traditions and practices, and vice versa that theology can chart alternative narratives for engaging concerns at the intersection of gender and ecology.
Board Members: Celia Deane-Drummond, Sharon Bong, Lisa Cahill, Melanie Harris, Susan Rakoczy, Lisa Sideris, Barbara Rossing, Elaine Wainwright
Produktdetaljer
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Hilda P. Koster is the Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto Associate Professor of Ecological Theology and the Director of the Elliott Allen Institute for Theology and Ecology, Regis St Michael’s Faculty of Theology at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Celia Deane-Drummond is Director of the Laudato Si’ Research Institute and Senior Research Fellow in Theology, Campion Hall at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.