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The dystopia of technoscience: An ecofeminist critique of postmodern reason
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In this article, the authors make a critical reading of epistemological postures adopted by these postmodern feminists, revealing a number of internal incoherencies and finding their substantive analyses as unhelpful to radical political action in the here and now, as it is to utopian prefiguration of a just and sustainable future.About:
This article is published in Futures.The article was published on 2009-05-01. It has received 13 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Technoscience & Ecofeminism.read more
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Degrowth and post-extractivism: two debates with suggestions for the inclusive development framework
TL;DR: The authors assesses both debates and discusses their strengths and shortcomings and makes suggestions for the concept of inclusive development, but they do not link these debates to the inclusive development framework, which is surprising, because the chances to realize degrowth and post-extractivist strategies depend on global social-ecological transformations.
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Gender in futures: A study of gender and feminist papers published in Futures, 1969–2009
TL;DR: This paper reviewed and discussed papers related to women's studies, gender or feminist perspectives, published in the scientific journal Futures, with the aim of providing new understandings and remapp...
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Visualization of Future Landscapes, Postmodern Cinema and Geographical Education
TL;DR: In this article, a study fuses geographical education with film studies, by addressing the question of how might university students of Geography visualize a future urban landscape on the basis of key elements of Riddley Scott's classic postmodern film "Bladerunner" (1982).
Female and male teachers' pro-environmental behaviour, conceptions and attitudes towards nature and the environment do not differ: Ecofeminism put to the test
TL;DR: Teachers' pro-environmental behaviour, conceptions and attitudes towards nature and the environment were investigated using 47 questions from the BIOHEAD-Citizen questionnaire as mentioned in this paper, and the results showed that teachers were proenvironmental behavior, conceptions, and attitudes toward nature.
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Should utopians have perfect bodies
TL;DR: Is one who imagines a “perfect” (or vastly improved) society also obliged or inclined to imagine a "perfect" or vastly improved body as part of her project? If there is in fact a utopian tradition imagining perfect bodies, what new alternatives are conceivable? Should utopian writers pursue any or all of them? Attempts to provide an answer provide critics with perhaps their most penetrating objections to the utopian project since imagining and reproducing perfect bodies entails an intrusiveness even greater than political or economic perfection.
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Exergy: Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development
Ibrahim Dincer,Marc A. Rosen +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors deal with exergy and its applications to various energy systems and applications as a potential tool for design, analysis and optimization, and its role in minimizing and/or eliminating environmental impacts and providing sustainable development.
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Feminism and the mastery of nature
TL;DR: Plumwood as mentioned in this paper argues that feminist theory has an important opportunity to make a major contribution to the debates in political ecology and environmental philosophy, and explains the relation between ecofeminism, or ecological feminism, and other feminist theories including radical green theories such as deep ecology.
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Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development
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Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development
TL;DR: Staying Alive as discussed by the authors is a story of extraordinary strength and the power of love in survival of breast cancer in a close-knit, extended Jewish family set apart only by a genetic propensity for breast cancer.