Our Politics, Our Earth: The Politics of Renewal

Abstract

In this text from the early 1990s, Irene Diamond offers an ecofeminist critique of the domination of tecnocratic knowledge and the narrative of progess that characterised the Enligthenment. While Diamond insists on the harm that such processes can generate, even more so than the devastation created by violent militarism, she also offers a strong answer in favor of an ecological, democratic and egalitarian future by drawing on the intricate struggle of non-western women for their liberation as well as the liberation of the earth; a struggle that Diamond relates to various tendencies within contemporary feminism in general, and ecofeminism in particular: the defense of intersectionality, the valorisaion of activist and situated knowledge, the articulation of a holistic emancipatory agenda of a libertarian nature, that questions the emancipatory potential of the state and the performance of two slogans which have come to define ecologists and feminists’ struggles: the personal is political (and academic), and think global, act local.