“It's more than planting trees, It's planting ideas”: ecofeminist praxis in the Green Belt Movement

• Hunt, Kathleen P. ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Utah

     University of Utah

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Southern communication journal, ISSN 1041-794X, Vol. 79, nº 3, 2014, págs. 235-249
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Led by Wangari Maathai, the Green Belt Movement emerged as a response to environmental degradation in postcolonial Kenya. This essay examines three Green Belt Movement campaigns that operated as praxis to resist environmental and political oppression, empowering rural women to enact a political consciousness toward democ- racy and environmental justice. The ecofeminist conception of power-toward drives an analysis of the ways participants were empowered to materially rearticulate an environmentally stable and democratic Kenya. As a case study of environmental justice in the Global South, this essay demonstrates the applicability of an ecofeminist framework in critical rhetorical analysis by exploring the dynamics of social change.