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Based on case studies, the book creates a multidisciplinary conversation on the gendered vulnerabilities resulting from extractive industries and toxic pollution, and also charts the resilience and courage of women as they resist polluting industries, fight for clean water and seek to protect the land. While ecumenical in scope, the book takes its departure from the concept of integral ecology introduced in Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’. The first three sections of the book focus on the social and ecological challenges facing minoritized women and their communities that are related to mining, pollutants and biodiversity loss, and toxicity. The final section of the book focuses on the possibilities and obstacles to global solidarity. All chapters offer a cross disciplinary response to a particular local situation, tracing the ways ecological destruction, resulting from extraction and toxic contamination, affects the lives of women and their communities. The book pays careful attention to the political, economic, and legal structures facilitating these life-threatening challenges. Each section concludes with a response from a ‘practitioner’ in the field, representing an ecclesial organization or NGO focused on eco-justice advocacy in the global South, or minority communities in the global North.

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Author:   Associate Professor Hilda P. Koster (University of St Michael's College, University of Toronto, Canada) ,  Dr. Celia Deane-Drummond (Campion Hall, University of Oxford, UK) ,  Arnfr��ur Gu�mundsd�ttir
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   T.& T.Clark Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.394kg
ISBN:  

9780567706126

ISBN 10:   0567706125
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   24 April 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction, Hilda P. Koster (University of Toronto, Canada) and Celia Deane-Drummond (University of Oxford, UK) Chapter 1: Human Rights and the Vulnerabilities of Gender in the Context of Climate Emergency and Extractive Industries, Linda Hogan (Trinity College, Ireland) Part 1: Mining Chapter 2: Toxic Environments, Denise Humphreys Bebbington (Clark University, USA) Chapter 3: Countering Colonial Mining: Water Protectors, Environmental Justice and the Creation Community of Saints, Marion Grau (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway) A Practitioner's Response to Denise Humphreys Bebbington and Marion Grau, Marianna Leite (University of Coimbra, Portugal) Part 2: Pollutants and Biodiversity Loss Chapter 4: Understanding the Impact of Environmental Contaminants on Women from Industrial Pollutants, Felicia Jefferson with B. S. Rheygan Reed and Sierra Cloud (Fort Valley State University, USA) Chapter 5: The Ecological Kairos: Theological Reflections on the Threat of Environmental Plastics to Organismal and Environmental Health, Oliver Putz (University of Oxford, UK) A Practitioner's Response to Felicia Jefferson and Oliver Putz, Kailean Khongsai (A Rocha, UK) Part 3: Toxicology Chapter 6: Toxicity in the Times of Project-Based Development: Indigenous Women Facing Oil and Gold Pollution in the Peruvian Amazon, Deborah Delgado Pugley (Catholic University of Peru, Peru) Chapter 7: Mining and Women’s Activism: Still Under the Surface of Catholic Social Teaching, Lisa Sowle Cahill (Boston College, USA) A Practitioner's Response to Deborah Delgado Pugley and Lisa Sowle Cahill, Dr. Kuzipa Nalwamba (World Council of Churches, Switzerland) Part 4: Global Solidarity Chapter 8: #FRACKOFF: Towards a Decolonial, Eco-Feminist Theological Engagement with Fracking and the MMIWG2S Crisis on the Berthold Reservation in North Dakota, Hilda P. Koster (University of Toronto, Canada) Chapter 9: Rare Earth and Rare Practice of 'Integral Ecology': A Feminist Post-Colonial Reading of ‘Save Malaysia, Stop Lynas’ Protests, Sharon A. Bong (Monash University, Malaysia) A Practitioner's Response to Sharon Bong and Hilda Koster, Josianne Gauthier (CIDSE, Belgium) Theological Vision; Political Implications Chapter 10: Solidarities of Difficult Difference: Towards A Conviviality of the Earth, Catherine Keller (Drew University, USA) Epilogue: Are We Ready to Listen? Tebaldo Vinciguerra Bibliography Index

Reviews

Given the devastating impact of extractive industries on ecosystems and on Indigenous communities, the paucity of engagements with mining from the perspective of ecotheology constitutes a serious caveat, not least where such mining is situated in countries of the global South. This volume offers a well-balanced and most welcome correction in this regard, especially given its recognition of vulnerabilities of gender. As the editors note, the volume focuses mainly on South and North America so that such a volume should now be supplemented with similar engagements, especially from an African perspective. * Ernst M. Conradie, University of the Western Cape, South Africa * It is a rare book project that can summon the cooperative, multi-disciplinary scholarly analysis and advocacy needed to address today’s economic practices and ecological crises. This book does just that. It explores parallel forms of extraction – of life and resources – from the earth and marginalized people. It includes diverse, global scholarly perspectives from the natural and social sciences, gender studies, indigenous perspectives and religion. Avoiding overgeneralizations and un-grounded theory, the focus here is decidedly particular and local in focus. Best yet, this book tests and interrogates research across several academic disciplines by engaging local, on-the-ground practitioners and non-profit workers in order to effect real change. * Marit Trelstad, Pacific Lutheran University, USA * Human solidarity can no longer concern our relationship with other humans only but must include our responsibility for all aspects of the planet. This book provides an extensive and convincing argument for such solidarity and depicts in nuance and detail what lack of such solidarity has implied. By analyzing accelerated forms of extractivism that are destroying ecological systems, land-based livelihoods, and cultures at an unprecedented scale, it also identifies the often-ignored gendered dimension that causes women’s suffering in the face of planetary destruction. The present volume documents both destruction and constructive possibilities for active response. In a literally “down to earth” approach, it represents an important contribution to empirical knowledge and ethical and theological reflection on matters that should concern everyone. * Jan-Olav Henriksen, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway * With precision, methodological rigor, and insight, the authors in this volume foreground the vital and often-toxic interconnections among gender, extraction, and environmental degradation. The authors' areas of expertise and the editors' thoughtful pairings of practitioners and scholars make this volume important in structure as well as content. * Christiana Zenner, Fordham University, USA *

"""Given the devastating impact of extractive industries on ecosystems and on Indigenous communities, the paucity of engagements with mining from the perspective of ecotheology constitutes a serious caveat, not least where such mining is situated in countries of the global South. This volume offers a well-balanced and most welcome correction in this regard, especially given its recognition of vulnerabilities of gender. As the editors note, the volume focuses mainly on South and North America so that such a volume should now be supplemented with similar engagements, especially from an African perspective."" --Ernst M. Conradie, University of the Western Cape, South Africa ""It is a rare book project that can summon the cooperative, multi-disciplinary scholarly analysis and advocacy needed to address today's economic practices and ecological crises. This book does just that. It explores parallel forms of extraction - of life and resources - from the earth and marginalized people. It includes diverse, global scholarly perspectives from the natural and social sciences, gender studies, indigenous perspectives and religion. Avoiding overgeneralizations and un-grounded theory, the focus here is decidedly particular and local in focus. Best yet, this book tests and interrogates research across several academic disciplines by engaging local, on-the-ground practitioners and non-profit workers in order to effect real change."" --Marit Trelstad, Pacific Lutheran University, USA ""Human solidarity can no longer concern our relationship with other humans only but must include our responsibility for all aspects of the planet. This book provides an extensive and convincing argument for such solidarity and depicts in nuance and detail what lack of such solidarity has implied. By analyzing accelerated forms of extractivism that are destroying ecological systems, land-based livelihoods, and cultures at an unprecedented scale, it also identifies the often-ignored gendered dimension that causes women's suffering in the face of planetary destruction. The present volume documents both destruction and constructive possibilities for active response. In a literally ""down to earth"" approach, it represents an important contribution to empirical knowledge and ethical and theological reflection on matters that should concern everyone."" --Jan-Olav Henriksen, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway ""With precision, methodological rigor, and insight, the authors in this volume foreground the vital and often-toxic interconnections among gender, extraction, and environmental degradation. The authors' areas of expertise and the editors' thoughtful pairings of practitioners and scholars make this volume important in structure as well as content."" --Christiana Zenner, Fordham University, USA"

Author Information

Hilda P. Koster is the Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto Associate Professor of Ecological Theology and the Director of the Elliott Allen Institute for Theology and Ecology, Regis St Michael’s Faculty of Theology at the University of Toronto, Canada. Celia Deane-Drummond is Director of the Laudato Si’ Research Institute and Senior Research Fellow in Theology, Campion Hall at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

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