ABSTRACT
The introductory chapter provides the theoretical and structural framework for the volume. It situates the volume in the context of the critical re-emergence of feminism-informed work focused on the production of important transformations towards more just and sustainable futures, pointing to the problematic discriminatory processes and ways of thinking that define our historicity. The chapter critically engages with the idea of a political and socially just science dedicated to the reinvention, at least to a certain extent, of the critical debates on the construction of cultures of equality, the latter defined broadly as referring to, inter alia, gender, sexual, age, class, religious, national differences as well as to the relationship that the humans developed with the non-human world. This programmatic statement also defines the aims of this edited collection, indicating the need to set out an epistemological framework for generating a more just and response-able knowledge, where response-ability is understood, along with Donna Haraway, as an ability to responsibly respond to others.
