Erika Cudworth's Developing Ecofeminist Theory provides a helpful foundation for a non-essentialist, properly intersectional ecofeminist account of oppression, marginalization, and domination, but her rejection of what she refers to as "postmodernism" appears to be based on a misreading of Judith Butler. I attempt to provide a synthesis of Cudworth's framework with Butler, particularly through the use of Karen Barad's agential realism, in order to provide possibility for new alliances between ecofeminism and other anti-oppressive frameworks. I then examine what it might look like to do ecofeminist praxis, given the complex view of agency, ontology, and intersectionality rendered by such a synthesis. I draw from bicycling as an example from which to extrapolate what it means to resist oppression, and then draw from the Philosophy for Children movement to consider what such resistance might look like within the classroom. This dissertation thus attempts to move from theory to practice, recognizing that "the real world" is both always at hand and also subject to performative deconstruction.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc1808436 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Johnson, Benjamin D |
| Contributors | Rowe, Terra, Altiok, Ӧzlem, Briggle, Adam, Chatterjee, Ipsita, Klaver, Irene |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | iv, 130 pages, Text |
| Rights | Public, Johnson, Benjamin D, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved. |
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