ABSTRACT

This chapter explores practical and pedagogical approaches, tools, and methods for cultivating more socio-environmentally just relations that are inspired by feminist spatial critique. Scholars working in the field of gender and environment, including ecofeminists, feminist political ecologists, and new materialist feminists, share a criticism of human domination of the environment. Feminist and environmentalist critiques have been strongly interrelated since the 1970s. Feminist futures not restricted to women, but encompass alternative future forms of human and nonhuman relations that imply radical societal transformation of systems and structures that create and sustain gender hierarchy. Feminist spatial practices, in our understanding, work toward more socio-environmentally just relations by performing 'other worlds'. 'Other worlds' are thus constituted not only on the macroscale of societal futures, policy, and planning, but also on the microscale of everyday practices, relations that may be transformed by practice in planning and architecture, and individuals and communities.