Reworking human identity beyond exclusion of the feminine is now survival, not justice

Evidence

For all the formal knowledge of evolutionary biology, this model of disconnection remains deeply and fatally entrenched in modern conceptions of the human and of nature, inscribed in culture as a result of a dynamic which sought to naturalise domination in both human and non-human spheres. We must find ways to rework our concepts and practices of human virtue and identity as they have been conceived, since at least the time of the Greeks, as exclusive of and discontinuous with the devalued orders of the feminine, of subsistence, of materiality and of non-human nature. The master culture must now make its long-overdue homecoming to the earth. This is no longer simply a matter of justice, but now also a matter of survival. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 52

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘homecoming to the earth’ thesis directly feeds Eco-Justice pedagogy’s re-grounding of identity in place and materiality. — connects to: Ecological selfhood must challenge public instrumentalism, not stay a private practice — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 708; Reworking gender needs both transcendence and affirmation of identity. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 255; Justice restoration is unachievable but identity rebuilding remains possible — Nurit Shnabel and Johannes Ullrich, Identity Needs in Intergroup Relations:…, 78
• SEED: Angle for an essay connecting dualism-driven disconnection to why ecological literacy instruction alone fails as pedagogy.

Broader Connections

• Reworking gender needs both transcendence and affirmation of identity. #expands (0.75) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 255