{"id":9624,"date":"2020-04-09T11:15:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T15:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/?p=9624"},"modified":"2021-03-04T17:18:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T22:18:57","slug":"organising-in-the-time-of-covid-19-eco-feminist-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/organising-in-the-time-of-covid-19-eco-feminist-perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Organising in the time of COVID-19: Eco-feminist perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"429\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/FB_IMG_1505208337848_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/FB_IMG_1505208337848_1.jpg 429w, https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/FB_IMG_1505208337848_1-150x189.jpg 150w, https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/FB_IMG_1505208337848_1-300x378.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ruth Nyambura is a feminist political ecologist and activist from Kenya working on the intersections of gender, economy and ecological justice. Ruth is a founding member and the convener of the African Ecofeminists Collective and also works with several regional agrarian and climate justice movements to track and challenge the privatization of the agrarian commons. She describes her  work and activism that uses a feminist political ecology lens to critically engage with the continent\u2019s and global food systems, challenging neoliberal models of agrarian transformation and amplifying the revolutionary work of small-holder farmers of Africa\u2014the majority of whom are women\u2014as well as rural agrarian movements offering concrete anti-capitalist alternatives to the ecological, economic and democratic crisis facing the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She discusses Kenya with an eco-feminist analysis on the challenges women are experiencing and on the lessons to be drawn from this period <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Organising in the time of COVID-19: Eco-feminist perspectives\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rkBCx43VYFM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/soundcloud.com\/darajapress\/organising-in-the-time-of-covid-19-eco-feminist-perspectives\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth Nyambura is a feminist political ecologist and activist from Kenya working on the intersections of gender, economy and ecological justice. Ruth is a founding member and the convener of the African Ecofeminists Collective and also works with several regional agrarian and climate justice movements to track and challenge the privatization of the agrarian commons. 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