Ecofeminisms and varieties of environmentalisms: State of the matter

Abstract

Within the current context of the emergence of new forms of environmental activism in a worrying scenario of global uncertainty, this article sets out the main theories to approach the study of environmentalism, its discourses and its practices, in relation to different kinds of environmentalisms and ecofeminisms. It is found that ecofeminisms have a special narrative desire emphasizing the need for cares in the environmental movement claims. This proposal was born in social and local praxis but spread out to other areas becoming more frequent and legitimized in academic research, in politics and in the international public agenda. Looking at the different links between environmentalism and feminisms offers an opportunity to approach the several uses and appropriations of ecofeminisms, enabling our capacity for abstraction and criticism to imagine and build different, possible and desirable horizons.