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Created in 1993 and published since 2008 by Éditions de l’Université de Bruxelles, Sextant is today supported by an interdisciplinary group of teachers from the Université libre de Bruxelles. The journal presents studies, in English or French, on gender and sexuality issues, with a focus on interdisciplinarity (social sciences, literature, law, psychology...). The issues are annual and thematic.
 

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41 | 2024
Écoféminismes

Au cœur de l’Anthropocène
Ecofeminisms
Edited by Nathalie Grandjean
Sextant 41
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Is it still possible to think and represent ourselves solely in terms of the anthropos, i.e. the universal human? Is this category at all appropriate in the face of climate change?

Ecofeminists have challenged the anthropocentric nature of the Anthropocene: describing humankind as a geological force obscures the fact that not all humans share equal responsibility in the process. It would seem that mankind will continue to be the only master on board, and that nothing can be expected of the rest of the living world. The Anthropocene seems to reiterate the naturalist metaphysics organized in the nature-culture binary by advancing the idea that mankind finds itself once again face to face with nature, and remains indispensable to its preservation.

This thematic issue argues that a way out of this aporia could be achieved by adopting an ecofeminist stance. If the Anthropocene is both Capitalocene, Eurocene, and Plantationocene, it can certainly also be ‘Androcene.' Recognizing the artifactual nature of the category ‘woman,' ecofeminists have engaged in a critical reflection on ‘mankind' as universal masculine, and a theorization of subjectivities based on bodies. Their epistemological positioning confers on them the privilege of thinking about the conditions of possibility for breaking out of the loop, as well as the new subjectivities at work in a redeployment of nature-culture relations.

Editor’s notes

Publié avec l’aide financière du Fonds de la recherche scientifique – F.R.S.-FNRS

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