On drought and domination
Feminist Political Ecology of Soil
We put our hands in the soil and shake the foundations. We seek out how patriarchal-capitalist domination is inscribed in our relationships. We ask questions until we have reached the bottom, ask about man and nature and the (in)meaninglessness of language, ask what has been historically constructed and grown and still characterises us today. We dedicate ourselves to the invisible, the devalued, and refuse to allow ourselves to be appropriated by productivists.
What has brought us humans to the point where the soil will soon no longer be able to feed us if things go on like this? The thin top layer of the planet, the critical zone that holds all life together. We learn what drought has to do with capitalism and what compost has to do with care. We end up with ideas of care, queer, communalised and political, at the centre of the (land) economy, at the humusy bottom of relationships.
