- Title
- Women’s voices in permaculture: exploring women’s experiences and views on the transformative potential of ‘social permaculture’
- Creator
- Voznesenskaya, Maria
- Resource Type
- thesis
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Bachelor Honours - Bachelor of Social Science (Honours)
- Description
- Permaculture is a prefigurative eco-social movement based on the ethics of Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share. The goal of permaculture is to design ecologically regenerative and socially just ways to organise communities of all scales, from household to whole societies. Regenerative land management practices typically receive due attention from permaculture practitioners. The movement, however, is lacking an equal attention to the socially transformative potential of permaculture, or social permaculture. Previous studies show that social movements, which do not address the dominant social patterns of inequality, such as sexism and racism, inevitably re-create these patterns in their work despite their egalitarian claims and goals. This research examines socially transformative potential of permaculture from women’s perspectives. The insights from ten in-depth interviews with female permaculturists reveal the complex terrain in which women engage with permaculture communities and mainstream cultures in which they are situated. The ways in which the women perceive and address sexism and gender bias in permaculture are complex. The stories of re-connecting to land and community, enabling other women, redefining kin, and revalorising the importance of ‘women’s work’ reveal a broad range of women’s creative approaches to re-designing the dominant patriarchal neoliberal culture within and outside permaculture circles. The research findings highlight the perspectives and visions of ‘better future’, which permaculturist women hold, examine applicability of permaculture to broad social settings, and discuss some practical ways in which women utilise social permaculture to engender the eco-social transformation they wish to see in the world.
- Subject
- permaculture; ecofeminism; feminist standpoint theory; social permaculture; social movements; prefigurative movement; re-productive work-life; alternative future(s); women’s perspectives
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1427566
- Identifier
- uon:38548
- Rights
- Copyright 2020 Maria Voznesenskaya
- Language
- eng
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