Labors of Love and Loss: Radical Acts of Human, Plant, and Nonhuman Mothering

Alexa M. Dare and C. Vail Fletcher
Additional contact information
Alexa M. Dare: University of Portland, Portland
C. Vail Fletcher: University of Portland, Portland

Journal of Ecohumanism, 2023, vol. 2, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: As we begin to pick up the scattered pieces of our lives upended by a global pandemic, there is still little clarity about what comes next; and yet it has been laid perfectly bare that mothering is both essential and chronically undervalued. For the two editors of this special issue, we are among millions who are raising kin (human and nonhuman alike) in the Anthropocene. Who both worry desperately for what the future will look like, and who practice love and care in the face of crisis, extinction, contamination, aggression, and more. We are interested in taking seriously mothering and other forms of caregiving as radical acts of ecosurvival, and so we invited human animal collaborators to this special issue to help us collectively think through the ways in which love, intimacy, mothering, caregiving, and/or kinmaking are practices of resistance, solidarity, or world-making. The response to our invitation – in both scope and depth – was immense. Scholars and poets and artists everywhere have already been imagining – and witnessing – a new world being born and broadened to allow new stories of survival and kinship to take hold.

Keywords: Labors; Love; Loss; Radical Acts; Human; Plant; Nonhuman; Mothering (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.tplondon.com/ecohumanism/article/view/2928/2105 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:mig:ecohjl:v:2:y:2023:i:1:p:1-7

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://ecohumanism. ... ormation/librarians/

DOI: 10.33182/joe.v2i1.2928

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Ecohumanism is currently edited by Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki

More articles in Journal of Ecohumanism from Transnational Press London, UK
Bibliographic data for series maintained by TPLondon ().