Description: Mothers, Mothering and Climate Change is as much about climate change as it is about the importance of community care and intergenerational justice. Considering climate change and mothering, how do we hold space for seemingly conflicting stories, ones that attempt to document and stall an inevitable end while others focus on new beginnings? Can mothering encompass both conditions, be pulled in opposite directions, and exist within this tension? Are we not, yet again, asking mothers to do it all? In response, this collection answers these questions and explores them in an interdisciplinary anthology that brings together voices of concerned matricentric feminist theorists, researchers, and activists from a wide range of disciplines and fields. These include anthropology, women's and gender studies, cultural studies, literary studies, social sciences and humanities. Creative contributions complement academic writing and include personal essay/reflection, academic essay, memoir, creative non-fiction, diary style, poetry, art, photography, and hybrid genres.
Review Quotes: Mothers, Mothering, and Climate Change is a generative and provocative transdisciplinary text, taking on various forms and attending to multiple fields. This becomes an active and creative refusal of the b/ordering regimes trying to (en)force a normative world that excludes, divides, and oppresses; a world that many are now realizing has created the polycrises we are currently facing. In this way, the very shape of the text invites readers to necessarily embrace the entangled complexities of mothers, mothering, and climate change as a vital reorientation to worldmaking for more livable presents and futures. - Mairi McDermott, Associate Professor of Curriculum and Learning, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary A profound, moving, and diverse collection?diverse both in terms of disciplinary approaches and the identities and perspectives of the artists included. This will be a great entry point for readers, scholars, and students interested in motherhood, climate change, and ecofeminist approaches to both. - Jennifer Case, author of We Are Animals: On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood