ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author explains some of Haraway's engagements with what has come to count as nature, and the resulting challenges and contributions she offers for feminist and environmental theory. She focuses on some of the distinctive conceptual tools that Haraway has developed in pursuing her non-dualist approach to nature. These include resisting the divide between the sciences and humanities; insisting on the indivisibility of nature and culture, or what she terms 'naturecultures'; understanding the complex relations of stories and narratives to the material; and her attention to the human/non-human relation. Thinking in terms of naturecultures has consequences for all the other dualisms flowing from their separation – most significantly for a feminist perspective, that of sex/gender. As Sara Ahmed has noted, what is worrying in calls to recognize or mark out a 'new' feminist materialism is what she calls a 'routinization of the gesture towards feminist anti-biologism or constructionism'.
