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Preface and Acknowledgements
                       An integrating politics - who speaks and how?

PART I - WOMEN AND ECOPOLITICS

1     ecology re-frames history
the green conjuncture - species, gendered and postcolonial others -
an old blindspot - agents of history/nature - notes

2     ecofeminist actions
a global tapestry - the roaring inside her - deepening ecology - bio-colonisation – notes


PART II - AN EMBODIED MATERIALISM

3     body logic : 1/0 culture
the politics of difference - reproductive consciousness - boundaries
and spills - in the name of the father - attunement - notes

4     man / woman = nature
head, hand, and womb - the purity of science - silver and spice -
orbital debris - notes

5     for and against Marx
nature, his real body - the chain of appropriation - necessity v freedom - the transcendent tool - production/reproduction - notes

6     the deepest contradiction
the inconsequential society - capital incarnate - natural and gendered resources - inclusion/exclusion - notes


PART III - MAKING POSTCOLONIAL SENSE


7     when feminism fails
the mothering class - a culture of narcissism? - global structures: critical mass - shame and assimilation - notes

8     terra nullius
ecological economics - corporate harmonisation - capacity building - very primitive accumulation - models of self-reliance - notes

9     a barefoot epistemology
the neo-feudal order - grounded solidarity - pleasures of enduring time - indigenous knowledges - holding and sustainability - notes

10     as energy / labour flows
boundary conditions - extracting the surplus - bio-energetics nature ' s holograph - self as ensemble - a postmodern marx? - the meta-industrial vantage point - notes

11     agents of complexity
enfoldment and resonance - erasure and non-identity - an embodied materialism - and precautionary ethic

12     beyond virtual movements
sociology and bio-politics - the democratic subject - states of mind - four revolutions in one - coda - notes

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Copyright Ariel Salleh 1997