Doing Gender – Doing Space – Doing Body. Feministische Kritiken an der De/Ökonomisierung von ‚Natur/en’ – Entwicklung einer Forschungsperspektive

Abstract

Using an interdisciplinary approach, the authors investigate the nexus of gender, space and body, in order to understand if and how the issue of materiality can be integrated into gender research. Assuming that space and body are dimensions of integrationin which nature and gender become effective materially and symbolically, the ecological orientated field of action of nature conservation and the social orientated field of action of medical care are interrogated. The question is, how are nature/s produced via de/economization, and who takes possession of the materiality. The analysis of ‘Caring for nature’ focusses on the category space, the analysis of ‘Caring for humans’ focusses on the category body. While looking at process protection and palliative medicine, such concepts are taken into consideration, which seem to give up dominant access to nature in favor of a process oriented leaving alone. The consideration of rationalities of action becoming effective opens up a social-ecological research perspective, in which current gender and sustainability debates about caring for humans and nature can be deconstructed.