This is both an intro and a response to the request by John Ferris.  I
am a PhD candidate at the University of Oregon, working on a
dissertation on the diversity in the US Environmental movement and some
of the emergent forms of pluralist political practice that take note of
and work with that diversity.  I am particularly interested in the
formation of networks as a political strategy (hence my interest in the
environmental justice movement) and the use of discursive practices to
bridge difference (mediation, management councils).

I am in agreement with those who have written of the existence of
ecofeminisms, in the plural.  When both Janet Biehl and Starhawk can
claim themselves to be ecofeminists, you know that describing or
defining the concept in the singular is a futile endeavor.  Just as
there is no one feminism or one environmentalism there can be, and
really shouldn't be a singular notion of ecofeminism.  (And I would
recommend Diamond and Orenstein, eds., Reweaving the World, as an
example of a variety of notions together in one volume).  I look forward
to healthy debates among the various versions on this list.

In response to the request by John Ferris on those working with race,
class, and gender connections in the US environmental movement, I
recommend Robert Gottlieb's recent history, Forcing the Spring (Island
1993).  Also on history, check out Marcy Darnovsky's "Stories Less Told"
in Socialist Review, Vol. 22, No. 4, 1992.  On these types of
connections in the environmental justice movement, check out the edited
volume by Richard Hofrichter, Toxic Struggles (New Society 1993). On
anti-toxics work, see Ecopopulism, by Andrew Szasz (Minnesota, 1994) as
well as a variety of materials available from the Citizen's
Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste.

David Schlosberg
Department of Political Science
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97405
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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