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In the context of climate change and rising risk of environmental crisis caused by pollution and unsustainable exploitation of natural resources, the concept of environmental security, primarily defined as the resilience of countries and individuals to the challenges of environmental degradation, is rapidly obtaining the interest of general public and experts from various scientific disciplines. However, it seems that the gender aspect of security in general, and particularly of environmental security has not been given the amount of attention it deserves until recently. Thanks to the ecofeminist movement, based upon the idea that women are more closely related to nature than men and more vulnerable and susceptible to the negative impacts of environmental degradation (especially those emerging as the consequences of pollution and climate change), the role of women in the improvement of environmental security through participation in decision-making processes in legislation and public policy making is finally being recognised. The aim of this paper is to analyse the modern concept of environmental security as well as the evolution and contemporary discourses within ecofeminist movements and to explain the link between them, i.e., the contribution of ecofeminism to the shift in the approach to environmental security in the sense of taking into consideration the rights and interests of women as more common victims of negative environmental impacts as well as their potentials as relevant stake holders in this field. ; U kontekstu klimatskih promena i rastućeg rizika od ekološke krize izazvane zagađenjem i nedrživim eksploatisanjem prirodnih resursa, koncept ekološke bezbednosti, prvenstveno određen kao spremnost država i pojedinaca da se suoče sa izazovima degradacije životne sredine ubrzano pobuđuje interesovanje kako šire javnosti tako i eksperata iz različitih naučnih disciplina. Međutim, čini se da rodnom aspektu bezbednosti uopšte, a posebno ekološke bezbednosti, sve do nedavno nije pruženo oniliko pažnje ...

About the author; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Forewords; Preface to the first edition; Introduction to the twentieth anniversary edition; Part I: Women and Ecopolitics; 1. Ecology reframes history; 2. Ecofeminist actions; Part II: An Embodied Materialism; 3. Body logic: 1/0 culture; 4. Man/Woman=Nature; 5. For and against Marx; 6. The deepest contradiction; Part III: Making Postcolonial Sense; 7. When feminism fails; 8. Terra nullius; 9. A barefoot epistemology; 10. As energy/labour flows; 11. Agents of complexity; 12. Beyond virtual movements.

Challenges exclusivist versions of Afrocentrism to call for a coalition of reform-minded groups that share the struggle against oppression & being defined as the "other" in order to develop a consensual philosophical basis for real democracy. The origin, evolution, & ontology of Afrocentricity are described; noting that the late-20th-century movement founded by Molefi K. Asante was based on historical self-knowledge that preserves cultural difference while moving toward a global community. Distinctions are made between Afrocentricity & Afrocentrism. It is contended that the centering process associated with Afrocentricity that restores Africana peoples' agency will work for other groups that have lost their natural human agency. The alliance between Afrocentric holistic thinkers & ecocentric philosophers is explored, along with ecofeminist critiques of a holistic ontology; & similarities between Afrocentric & feminist thought pointed out by Asante. It is concluded that Asante erred by dismissing much of Marxist theory & suggested that Afrocentrists & socialists both have much to gain by recognizing the common bond in their holistic ontology. 39 References. J. Lindroth