ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how to keep on engaging and caring, with a sense of humility and compassion, for others including non-human others, in order to learn to live with the mess we are undoubtedly in. It provides a post-development and post-capitalist readings of the economy and environment as part of the exploration of how to include ‘Earthothers’ in ecological theory and practice of care. Ecofeminism emerged in the 1970s and 1980s bringing together feminist and ecological critiques of capitalism, modernity and science. Ecofeminism integrates discourses on science, the body, culture, nature and political economy. Differential belonging recognises that we learn to care through relations of belonging determined by political conditions that bind us to others often in ways which are not always visible.
