Article
“It's More Than Planting Trees, It's Planting Ideas”: Ecofeminist Praxis in the Green Belt Movement
Southern Communication Journal
(2014)
Abstract
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 democracy 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.
Keywords
- Ecofeminism,
- Critical Rhetoric,
- Praxis,
- Environmental Justice
Disciplines
Publication Date
2014
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2014.890245
Publisher Statement
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Southern Communication Journal (2014), available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2014.890245.
Citation Information
Kathleen P. Hunt. "“It's More Than Planting Trees, It's Planting Ideas”: Ecofeminist Praxis in the Green Belt Movement" Southern Communication Journal Vol. 79 Iss. 3 (2014) p. 235 - 249 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kathleen-hunt/5/