Ariel Salleh


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Name: Ariel Salleh
Title: Prof/Dr
Organization: University of Sydney/ Friedrich Schiller University Jena/ Nelson Mandela Metropolitan U

Brief profile:                                                                                                                                                           

  • Ariel Salleh is a Foundation Member of Global University for Sustainability
  • www.arielsalleh.info.
  • She is an Australian scholar-activist whose interests are global social movements, technology
    critique, ecofeminism, decoloniality, ecosocialism.
  • Appointed Visiting Professor, Instituto de Humanidades, Artes e Ciências, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil 2025; formerly Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Queen Mary University of London and Visiting Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Nelson Mandela University.

Books

2017 [1997] Ecofeminism as Politics: nature, Marx, and the postmodern. 

London: Zed Books. 

 

2019 Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary – Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria and Alberto Acosta (eds.) 

New York: Columbia University Press and New Delhi: Tulika/ AuthorsUpFront.

– Spanish translation – 2019 – Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria and Alberto Acosta (eds.) Pluriverso: un diccionario del posdesarrollo. Barcelona: Icaria / Quito: Abya-Yala 

 

2009 Eco-Sufficiency & Global Justice: Women write Political Ecology.

London: Pluto Press and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 

– Polish translation Ch 1 – 2009 ‘Dlug Ekologiczny: Dlug Ucielesniony’ [Ecological Debt: Embodied Debt], Biblioteka Online Think Tank Feministycznego: http://www.ekologiasztuka.pl/pdf/f0082salleh2009.pdf.

– Chinese translation Ch 16 – 2010 ‘From Eco-Sufficiency to Global Justice’, Marxism and Reality, No. 5, 174-180.

 

2024 DeColonize EcoModernism! London: Bloomsbury .

 

Articles

 

2008 ‘Eco-socialism and “Ecological Civilization” in China’, Capitalism Nature Socialism, Vol. 19, No. 3, 122-128. (US)

 

2008 ‘Climate Change and the “Other” Footprint’: The Commoner, No. 13: www.thecommoner.org.uk (UK)                                                                                                           

– Chinese translation – 2008 ‘How the Ecological Footprint is Gendered: Implications for eco-socialist theory and praxis’, Green Leaf, Ministry for Environmental Protection, Beijing, No. 126, 68-73. 

– Japanese translation – 2010 ‘Climate Change – and the Other Footprint’, Journal of Environmental Thought and Education, Vol. 4, 218-224. (JP)

 

2009 ‘The Dystopia of Technoscience: An Ecofeminist Critique of Postmodern Reason’, Futures, Vol. 41, No 4, 201-209. (UK)

 

2010 ‘From Metabolic Rift to Metabolic Value: Reflections on Environmental Sociology and the Alternative Globalisation Movement’, Organization & Environment, Vol. 23, No. 2, 205-219. (US)   

                      

2012 ‘Women, food sovereignty and ‘green jobs’ in China’, Chain Reaction, No. 115. 46-47. (AU)

 

2012 ‘Rio+20 and the Green Economy: Technocrats, Meta-industrials, WSF and Occupy’: http://rio20.net/en/documentos (BR)

– Korean translation – 2014 ‘The Value of a Synergistic Economy’ in Anitra Nelson and Frans Timmerman (eds.), Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies. Paju: Booksea Publishing. 

 

2014 ‘Eco-socialism, Gendered Imaginaries and the Informatic-Securitization Complex’, Capitalism Nature Socialism, Vol. 25, No. 1, 24-39. (US)

 

2015 ‘Neoliberalism, Scientism, and Earth System Governance’ in Raymond Bryant (ed.), International Handbook of Political Ecology, Cheltenham: Elgar. 

 

2016 ‘The Anthropocene: Thinking in “deep geological time” or deep libidinal time? International Critical Thought, Vol. 6, No. 3, 422-433. (CN)

– Croation translation – 2020 ‘Antropocen: razmišljajući u “dubinskom geološkom vremenu” ili “dubinskom libidinalnom vremenu” in Ekofeminizam: između zelenih i ženskih studija (Ecofeminism: between Green and Women’s Studies), G. Đurđević, S. Marjanić (eds.), Zagreb: Durieux, 43-59.(HR)

– Japanese translation – 2016 ‘Listening to Ecological Voices from the global South’, Journal of Synthetic Anthropology, Vol. 10, 77-95. (JP)

 

2016 ‘Climate, Water, and Livelihood Skills: A post-development reading of the SDGs’, Globalizations, Vol. 13, No. 6, 952-959. (UK)

 

2016 with James Goodman and Hamed Hosseini, ‘From Sociological Imagination to Ecological Imagination’ in Jonathan Marshall and Linda Connor (eds.), Environmental Change and the World’s Futures: Ecologies, Ontologies, Mythologies. London: Routledge. 

 

2017 ‘Ecofeminism’ in Clive Spash (ed.), Ecological Economics: Nature and Society. London: Routledge. 

– Slovene translation – 2020 ‘Ekofeminizem’, Okoljski Boji Skozi Peizmo Mnozicne Mobilizacije’, Casopis za kritiko znanosti,domisljijo in novo antropologijo, Letnik XLVIII, stevilka 279, UDK 3, 10-25.

 

2017 ‘A tecnociência pós-moderna e o trabalho de cuidado’ [Postmodern Technoscience and the Labour of Care], Cadernos Cemarx: special issue on Marxism, sexuality and gender, No. 10, 175-196. (BR)

 

2017 Conversation with Arturo Escobar, Alberto Acosta, Federico Demaria and Ashish Kothari, ‘Towards a Radical Pluriverse’, Radical Ecological Democracy Dialogue Series: http://www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/towards-a-radical-pluriverse/. (IN)

 

2018 ‘Una estrategia eco-feminista: militar por el agua, el clima, y las luchas post-desarollo’ [Joining Up Water, Climate, and Post-Development Struggles: An Ecofeminist Strategy] in Alberto Acosta (ed.), Ecuador Debate, No.103, 147-158. (EC) 

– Hungarian translation2019 ‘Okofeminizmus’, Fordulat, Vol. 25, No. 1, 147-162. (HU)

 

2019 ‘Ecofeminist Sociology as a New Class Analysis’ in Klaus Dorre and Brigitte Aulenbacher (eds.) Global Dialogue, International Sociological Association Newsletter: Vol. 9, No. 1: http://globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/ (EU)

 

2019 ‘Ecofeminism as (Marxist) Sociology’ in Khayaat Fakier, Diana Mulinari, and Nora Rathzel (eds.) Marxist Feminist Theories and Struggles Today: Essential Writings on Intersectionality, Labour, and Ecofeminism. London: Zed Books.

 

2020 ‘An Embodied Materialist Sociology’ in Michael Bell, Michael Carolan, Julie Keller, and Katharine Legun (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

 

2020 ‘”Holding” a Just and Ecological Peace’ in Joe Camilleri and Deborah Guess (eds.) Towards a Just and Ecologically Sustainable Peace. Singapore: Palgrave.

 

2020 ‘A Materialist Ecofeminist Reading of the Green Economy’ in Hamed Hosseini, James Goodman, Sara Motta, and Barry Gills (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies. London: Routledge. 

 

2021 Interview: ‘A Regenerative Ethic for a Gender Just Transition’, Institute for Global Development, University of New South Wales: http://www.igd.unsw.edu.au/regenerative-ethic- just-transition-ariel salleh.

 

2021 – with F. Demaria, A. Kothari, A. Escobar, and A. Acosta, ‘Post- development’, in S.Villamayor-Tomas and R. Muradian (eds.), The Barcelona School of Ecological Economics and Political Ecology: Essays in Honour of Joan Martinez-Alier. Barcelona: Icaria.

 

2021 ‘An EcoCentric Epistemology for EcoSocialism’ in L. Brownhill, S. Engel-Di Mauro, T. Giacomini, A. Isla, M. Löwy, T. Turner (eds.), Handbook on EcoSocialism. London: Routledge.

 

2022 ‘Interview: A Relational Logic for the Left’ in Walter Baier, Eric Canepis, and Haris Golemis (eds.), Transform ! Europe Yearbook, EU Brussels / London: Merlin Press.

 

2024 ‘Ecofeminism’, Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Sociology, Cheltenham: UK: Elgar.

 

2024 Review: ‘Kroger’s Extractivisms, Existences, and Extinctions: monoculture plantations and Amazon deforestation’, Journal of Peasant Studies: DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2137625.

 

In press: Review: ‘Shiva’s The Nature of Nature: The Metabolic Disorder of Climate Change’, Capitalism Nature Socialism

 

In press: ‘Foreword’ to Matt York and Marina Sitrin (eds.) Deep Commons:  Cultivating ecologies of solidarity and care beyond capitalism, anthroparchy, patriarchy, racism, and the
state.  New York:  SUNY Press.

 

 

Videos

2014 Keynote: ‘The Vicissitudes of an Earth Democracy’, for Affective Habitus: 

New Environmental Histories, 5th ASLEC-ANZ Biennial Conference, 

Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, June:

http://vimeo.com/112245598 (AU)

 

2016 Panel: ‘Marxism and Ecofeminism’, Perspectives on Labour and Nature, Second 

International Congress of Marxist-Feminism, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, October:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWNS4U_E8Gk (AT)

 

2020 Interview with Salvo Torre: ‘Ecofeminist Thinking on Futures after Covid19’, Fridays for Future, Turin, April:

https://youtu.be/_vB7QVmZgMs (IT)