Ecofeminism and Deinstitutionalization: Educational Practices and Visions of Care

Abstract

Over the past two decades, there has been increasing effort to identify points of convergence between the principles of abolitionist feminism and the struggles of ecofeminist movements. The publication of Golden Gulag (2007) by Black feminist geographer Ruth W. Gilmore was a groundbreaking contribution, sparking a series of reflections on how the presence and persistence of carceral institutions harm both the environment and the lives and survival of women. This paper aims to reflect on the educational care practices that can be inferred from and suggested by the contributions of ecofeminist and abolitionist authors. Why is the horizon of prison abolition ecofeminist? What are the characteristics of educational practices shaped by a feminist, decolonial, ecological, and abolitionist perspective?