By Andrea Santos Baca
“What is Ecofeminism?” is the third session in South Feminist Future’s Political Education series. This series is an initiative by South Feminist Futures that seeks to strengthen cross-regional, inter-generational dialogue and build a cross-regional feminist constituency. The series cuts through various topics to interrogate and strengthen understanding of issues shaping conditions in the Global South.
“What is Ecofeminism” took place on the 27th of January and was taught by Andrea Santos Baca. In this session, the speaker explored the links between ecology and feminism. Baca discusses the ecofeminist framework and looks into how gender equality, climate change and social injustice are interrelated as well as how women are disproportionately affected by environmental problems.
Andrea Santos Baca is a Mexican professor in the area of Critical Political Economy and Political Economy of the agri-food system at the Federal University of ABC, Brazil. She holds a master’s degree in Social Sciences (FLACSO-México) and a Ph.D. in Economics (UFF-Brazil). In 2013, she won first place in the Juan F. Noyola International Prize for Research in Economic Development 2012-2013 of CEPAL-UNAM with her master’s thesis. The research was published in 2014 under the name The Food Consumption Pattern of Free Trade by CEPAL-UNAM. Currently, she researches about the contradictions of capitalist food systems, the agrarian question and the alternatives developed by the peasant and indigenous populations in Latin America. She is part of the Interdisciplinary Nucleus of Studies and Research in Marx (NIEP-MARX), the Brazilian Network for Research in Food and Nutrition Sovereignty (Rede PENSSAN) and the International Agrifood Studies Network REDAGRI. In 2020-2022 she participated in the international project Extimacies: Critical Theory from the Global South and currently is part of the interdisciplinary research project: Global Politics and Indigenous Peoples.
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