Ecofeminism as Sociology

In: Capitalism, nature, socialism: CNS ; a journal of socialist ecology, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 61-74

Abstract

Offers an ecofeminist consideration of knowledge, nature, & the social that endorses a critical realist understanding based on the social constructedness of languages & disciplines. Like dialectics, this approach depends on an assumption of overdetermination & flows constantly between the abstract & concrete. Such knowledge is identified as tacit when recognition of internally linked forces is not verbally articulated. Lay knowledge, often mistaken for tacit knowledge, is occasionally deemed to stay on the concrete level. However, it is here argued from an ecofeminist perspective that political interests limit the further development of lay knowledge into discourse. K. Coddon