ISBN:
9780190902711
,
9780190902704
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 332 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln
,
Illustrationen
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22 cm
Series Statement:
Heretical thought
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Humanökologie
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Anthropogener Einfluss
;
Ökofeminismus
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Environmentalism / Social aspects
;
Environmentalism / Philosophy
;
Environmental sciences / Language
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Sexism in language
;
Ecofeminism
;
Patriarchy
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Nature / Effect of human beings on
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Geology, Stratigraphic / Anthropocene
;
Humanökologie
;
Ökofeminismus
;
Anthropogener Einfluss
Abstract:
Introduction: In the name of the "mutha'" -- What's going on? -- The dirty/earthy mother -- The gods we worship -- The Anthropocene is a motherfucker -- Color Mother Nature gone -- "Feed the green" -- "Word is born" -- Call (on) your "mutha'" -- Coda: "Gather and vote.
Abstract:
"The proposed new geological era, The Anthropocene (aka Age of Humans, Age of Man), marking human domination of the planet long called Mother Earth, is truly The Age of the Motherfucker. The ecocide of the Anthropocene comes from Man, the Western- and masculine- identified corporate, military, intellectual, and political class that masks itself as the exemplar of the civilized and the human. The word motherfucker was invented by the enslaved children of White slavemasters to name their mothers' rapist/owners. Man's strategic motherfucking, from the personal to the planetary, is invasion, exploitation, spirit-breaking, extraction and toxic wasting of individuals, communities, and lands, for reasons of pleasure, plunder, and profit. Ecocide is attempted deicide of Mother Nature-Earth, reflecting Man's goal to come the god he first made in his own image. The motivational word Motherfucker further reveals the Anthropocene with a flip side signifying an outstanding, formidable, and inexorable force. Mother Nature-Earth is that "Mutha'" -- one defying translation into heteropatriarchal classifications of gender, one capable of overwhelming Man and not the other way around. Drawing upon Indigenous and African American scholarship, ecofeminism, ecowomanism, green activism, femme, queer, and gender non-binary philosophies, literature and arts, Afrofuturism, and popular culture, Call Your "Mutha'" contends that the Anthropocene is not evidence of Man's supremacy over nature, but that Mother Nature-Earth, faced with disrespect, is going away. It is imperative now to call the "Mutha'" by decolonizing land, bodies, and minds, ending rapism, feeding the green, renewing sustaining patterns and affirming devotion to Mother Nature-Earth"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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