Kvinder, Køn & Forskning

The Other Greta Effect (OGE)

Jenna Coughlin — 2024-11-07

Since Greta Thunberg’s rise to international prominence as a youth climate activist, other youth activists have been identified in mass media as the ‘Greta Thunberg’ of their respective nations or regions. Through an analysis informed by decolonial approaches to global media studies and climate change and scholarship on climate justice, this article finds that this discursive phenomenon, termed the ‘Other Great Effect’ (OGE), constructs Greta Thunberg as a global icon whose identity and approach establish a normative framework for youth climate activism. The OGE supports a universalizing narrative that legitimates the global North as leaders on climate change policy and downplays the different contexts, experiences, and identities represented within youth activism. Through case studies of four young activists who have been subjected to the Other Greta Effect, we find that the OGE paradoxically contributes to these activists’ illegibility while also providing opportunities to call for a more diverse climate movement. Finally, we present the Global Youth Activists Map as an alternative visualization that advances a more intersectional approach to climate justice.

Jordholderske; mere-end-menneskelig keren

Malou Juelskær — 2024-11-07

På 2.7 HA stubbemark som tidligere (ufrivilligt) har gjort tjeneste i den konventionelle, dvs. pesticid- baserede, landbrugsindustri, gør jeg mig erfaringer med at assistere mere-end-menneskelige pro- cesser med at bringe jorden ind i en anden væren: Et lille laboratorium for planetære problematikker og en myriade af entanglements, i alle de handlinger, som finder sted i relation til arealet. I artiklen vender jeg jorden igen og igen, og med et fokus på soil-care-relations undersøges bl.a. landbrugsjor- dens koloniale (nutids)historie. Feltarbejdet begrebssættes som ’økotone processer’ og jeg afprøver ’jordholderske’ som et flertalsbegreb for mere-end menneskeligt mellemartslige anliggender mellem jordvæsener og J/jord.

”Being among the stars”: Et feministisk-posthumanistisk perspektiv på det multiplanetære menneske

Anne Nørkjær Bang — 2024-11-07

I en tid hvor rumudforskning i stigende grad bliver underlagt kommercielle logikker, alt imens konsekvenserne af ekstraktiv kapitalisme på Jordens økosystemer bliver stadig mere tydelige, er det nødvendigt, at feministisk forskning også bidrager til samtalen om vores relationer til de mere-end-menneskelige verdener ”out there”, som nu af nye, private rumfartsvirksomheder bliver iscenesat som en lovende ny ”frontier”. Med den erkendelse som udgangspunkt, søger vi i denne artikel at udvikle et feministisk-posthumanistisk perspektiv på den SpaceX-drevne mission om at gøre mennesket til en multiplanetær art gennem Mars-kolonisering. I artiklen undersøger vi, hvordan mennesket forestilles som multiplanetær art gennem SpaceX’ formidling af dets Mars program og argumenterer for, at det multiplanetære menneske forestilles ud af tre overordnede linjer: 1) Multiplanetaritet som risikohåndtering 2) multiplanetaritet som ”livets gave” og 3) multiplanetaritet som en del af et attraktivt menneskeligt liv i ikke bare den globale, men også galaktiske elite – en idé, der i disse fremstillinger har umiddelbare effekter på det jordiske liv gennem sin affektive kraftfuldhed og evne til at cirkulere optimisme, produktivitet og håb for en fremtid som måske – måske aldrig – materialiserer sig. På den måde viser vores studie, at SpaceX’ forestillinger om multiplanetaritet bygger på opretholdelsen og mobiliseringen af naturkulturelle skillelinjer og animacitetshierarkier gennem antropocentriske, biopolitiske og imperialistiske tænkemåder: Mulitplaneratitet opstår som en redningskrans – ikke så meget for faktiske mennesker, der er truet af klimakatastrofe, men for en særlig måde at leve på, rodfæstet i vestlig forbrugskultur.

Listening to the Ancestral Wisdom of Diatomite Cliffs

Nina Lykke — 2024-11-07

This article focuses on green politics in Denmark, highlighting how mainstream political rhetorics with cruel optimism promote the country as a green world leader, while turning a blind eye to the eco-cides that have formed its landscapes. The primary aim is to critically consider how the terraforming of farmland through ecocidal approaches has been naturalized and normalized as part of national identity-building. A second aim is, affirmatively, to explore whether affected and affecting creative writing and speculative story-telling can be used to counter-act the cruelly optimistic indifference and insensitivity towards the more-than-human world, cultivated through normalization and naturalization. The article uses a vignette methodology. Two vignettes focus on human-human power relations, reflecting on the formation of Danish national identity during modernity. The third vignette shifts the perspective through a writing experiment, telling a speculative-spectrally fictionalized version of Danish history from a more-than-human perspective. A cliff, made by the micro-algae, diatoms, 55 million years ago, performs as the protagonist of a folktale-inspired story about the coming into being of Denmark through series of ecocides. The conclusion reflects on the defamiliarizing effects of the posthuman poetics used in the third vignette’s writing experiment, and compares notes with posthumanist and decolonial scholarship.

The (Im-)Possibilities and (Dis-)Comforts of Watery We’s

Christa Vogelius — 2024-11-07

The political economy of ecofeminist degrowth

Eeva Houtbeckers — 2024-11-07

Socio-ecological crises pose numerous problems for the continuity of human communities and more-than-human beings. First, previous thinkers have shown how capitalism is married to continuous economic growth, which has led to overproduction and overconsumption. Second, ecofeminists point out that not everyone is responsible for these crises. Furthermore, dualist and hierarchical mindsets perpetuate the exploitation of women, minorities, and more-than-human beings. Bridging these two debates is important to dismantling gendered economic exploitation on the one hand and the capitalist growth economy on the other. This text briefly introduces the history of ecofeminism and the ecofeminist political economy. It also identifies themes in ecofeminist degrowth thinking by analysing the works of Ariel Salleh and Stefania Barca. It is important to highlight ecofeminist thinking so that current degrowth debates do not ignore the institutionalised exploitation of women, minorities, and other species in economic activity.

Misogyny against climate justice activists

Katrien van der Heyden — 2024-11-07

The 2019 climate strikes were led by women with Great Thunberg being the first to start the Fridays for Future schoolstrikes. Anuna followed this example in Belgium. Being in this leading position, both received a huge amount of online harassment. The harassers were mainly young boys. The harassment was mainly sexual. This goes to show how the patriarchal masculinity experienced by the boys is felt to be threatened and needs to be defended by instigating violence against women. The deconstruction of patriarchal masculinity into caring types of masculinities/humanities, is to be prioritised in feminist and climate movements.

How Dare You

Signe Uldbjerg — 2024-11-07

Who is Afraid of Gender?

Dorthe Staunæs — 2024-11-07

Introduction: Gender and Climate Catastophe

Tara Mehrabi — 2024-11-07

Redaktionsledelsens forord

Michael Nebeling Petersen — 2024-11-07