女人,水,能源:生态女性主义路径

Women, Water, Energy: An Ecofeminist Approach

生态女性主义视角如何帮助我们理解并回应当今所要面对的水污染及能源生产问题?本文以当前的几个案例——"曼尼托巴水利"的阿诺海德—韦斯顿工程、"萨默斯能源2号"以及哥伦比亚河大坝——来揭示公司对本属于人民及土地的水能的擅用。生态女性主义阐明了关于水、权力、人际关系的性别化与文化假定是如何引导了水利基础设施的建构的,而这样的基础建设又延续了环境性别歧视、环境种族歧视和环境阶级歧视。作为替代的选择,走向水资源公正的生态女性主义路径倡导的策略,能够生发生态民主、生态经济学以及伙伴关系的文化,在其中水与能源自由通畅地流淌。

How can an ecofeminist perspective help us understand and respond to the problems of water pollution and energy production that we face today？ Using contemporary examples ranging from the Arrowhead-Weston Project to Manitoba Hydro, Sumas Energy 2, and the Columbia River dams, this article exposes the corporate appropriations of water power from the people and from the land. Ecofeminism illuminates the way in which gendered, cultural assumptions about water, power, and human relations have led to creating a water-power infrastructure that perpetuates environmental sexism, environmental racism, and environ？mental classism. As an alternative,an ecofeminist approach to water justice advocates strat？egies for bringing about an ecological democracy, an ecological economics,and a partner？ship culture in which water and energy flow freely.