In Solidarity with the Earth

Based on case studies, the book creates a multidisciplinary conversation on the gendered vulnerabilities resulting from extractive industries and toxic pollution, and also charts the resilience and courage of women as they resist polluting industries, fight for clean water and seek to protect the land. While ecumenical in scope, the book takes its departure from the concept of integral ecology introduced in Pope Francis'' encyclical Laudato Si'' . The first three sections of the book focus on the social and ecological challenges facing minoritized women and their communities that are related to mining, pollutants and biodiversity loss, and toxicity. The final section of the book focuses on the possibilities and obstacles to global solidarity. All chapters offer a cross disciplinary response to a particular local situation, tracing the ways ecological destruction, resulting from extraction and toxic contamination, affects the lives of women and their communities. The book pays careful attention to the political, economic, and legal structures facilitating these life-threatening challenges. Each section concludes with a response from a ''practitioner'' in the field, representing an ecclesial organization or NGO focused on eco-justice advocacy in the global South, or minority communities in the global North.>

Préface
Engages an international consortium of theologians, sociologists, and environmental scientists on the effects of resource extraction and pollution on the lives of poor, minoritized and Indigenous women.

Auteur
Hilda P. Koster is the Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto Associate Professor of Ecological Theology and the Director of the Elliott Allen Institute for Theology and Ecology, Regis St Michael's Faculty of Theology at the University of Toronto, Canada.Celia Deane-Drummond is Director of the Laudato Si' Research Institute and Senior Research Fellow in Theology, Campion Hall at University of Oxford, UK.

Contenu
Introduction, Hilda P. Koster (University of Toronto, Canada) and Celia Deane-Drummond (University of Oxford, UK) Chapter 1: Human Rights and the Vulnerabilities of Gender in the Context of Climate Emergency and Extractive Industries, Linda Hogan (Trinity College, Ireland) Part 1: Mining Chapter 2: Toxic Environments, Denise Humphreys Bebbington (Clark University, USA) Chapter 3: Countering Colonial Mining: Water Protectors, Environmental Justice and the Creation Community of Saints, Marion Grau (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway) A Practitioner's Response to Denise Humphreys Bebbington and Marion Grau, Marianna Leite (University of Coimbra, Portugal) Part 2: Pollutants and Biodiversity Loss Chapter 4: Understanding the Impact of Environmental Contaminants on Women from Industrial Pollutants, Felicia Jefferson with B. S. Rheygan Reed and Sierra Cloud (Fort Valley State University, USA) Chapter 5: The Ecological Kairos: Theological Reflections on the Threat of Environmental Plastics to Organismal and Environmental Health, Oliver Putz (University of Oxford, UK) A Practitioner's Response to Felicia Jefferson and Oliver Putz, Kailean Khongsai (A Rocha, UK) Part 3: Toxicology Chapter 6: Toxicity in the Times of Project-Based Development: Indigenous Women Facing Oil and Gold Pollution in the Peruvian Amazon, Deborah Delgado Pugley (Catholic University of Peru, Peru) Chapter 7: Mining and Women's Activism: Still Under the Surface of Catholic Social Teaching, Lisa Sowle Cahill (Boston College, USA) A Practitioner's Response to Deborah Delgado Pugley and Lisa Sowle Cahill, Dr. Kuzipa Nalwamba (World Council of Churches, Switzerland) Part 4: Global Solidarity Chapter 8: #FRACKOFF: Towards a Decolonial, Eco-Feminist Theological Engagement with Fracking and the MMIWG2S Crisis on the Berthold Reservation in North Dakota, Hilda P. Koster (University of Toronto, Canada) Chapter 9: Rare Earth and Rare Practice of 'Integral Ecology': A Feminist Post-Colonial Reading of 'Save Malaysia, Stop Lynas' Protests, Sharon A. Bong (Monash University, Malaysia) A Practitioner's Response to Sharon Bong and Hilda Koster, Josianne Gauthier (CIDSE, Belgium) Theological Vision; Political Implications Chapter 10: Solidarities of Difficult Difference: Towards A Conviviality of the Earth, Catherine Keller (Drew University, USA) Epilogue: Are We Ready to Listen? Tebaldo Vinciguerra Bibliography Index