Human marginalization and ecological exploitation share one root of value-hierarchized thought

Evidence

Here Social Foundations instructors will find the connection to the traditional content that they teach, but with an important twist. While they are presented in separate chapters here, we teach about these forms of human mar - ginalization and exploitation as interrelated by the structures of valuehierarchized thought and the associated logic of domination that they are grounded in. We emphasize that these forms of unjust social experi - ence are essentially interconnected and impossible to disconnect from our mistreatment of other life forms because they stem from the same fundamentally violent ways of thinking. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 126

Categorization

• DEFINE: Articulates the EcoJustice thesis that androcentrism, classism, racism, and speciesism are one logic of domination, not parallel oppressions.
• XREF: Directly operationalizes Bowers’ theoretical critique that value-hierarchized thinking underlies both social and ecological injustice across the polyad. — connects to: Taken-for-granted language reproduces value hierarchies and centric thinking — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 124; Metaphysical unity with nature justifies exploitation no less than conservation — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 671; Value hierarchies become second-nature through historically embedded discourse — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1099 (+7 more)
• recurring: this claim recurs 4 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Racism uses value hierarchies framed as natural to control and exploit #exemplifies (0.90) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1100
• The mechanistic worldview sanctioned domination of both nature and women #corroborates (0.85) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 64
• Separating nature from value stripped humans of intrinsic worth too #corroborates (0.82) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 399
• Value hierarchies become second-nature through historically embedded discourse #expands (0.78) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1099
• Eco-ethical consciousness requires analyzing cultural roots of ecological harm #qualifies (0.72) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 228