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Contribution short abstract

The paper analyses how Italian transfeminist collectives construct a master frame of political ecology that critiques Europe’s green transition, articulating intersectionality, care and body-territory to imagine energy futures beyond green extractivism

Contribution long abstract

This paper analyses the construction of a master frame of political ecology within contemporary transfeminist mobilisations in Italy, highlighting its critical potential in relation to Europe’s green transition and its persistent colonial logics. Drawing on social movement framing theory (Snow & Benford, 1988; Benford & Snow, 2000) and the notion of “critical conjuncture”, the research investigates how transfeminist activists weave together ecological, decolonial and social justice perspectives, elaborating imaginaries that move beyond extractivism and green growth.

Based on semi-structured interviews and materials produced by different transfeminist collectives, the analysis identifies three key bridging frames — intersectionality, care, body-territory — through which a shared ecopolitical master frame is articulated. In this perspective, care emerges as an ethical, material and political device of resistance that redefines the relations between social reproduction, environment and climate justice, challenging the mere replacement of fossil extractivism with its “green” counterpart.

In dialogue with ecofeminist and decolonial ethnographies of Europe’s energy transition, the paper shows how ecotransfeminism operates as a space of collective re-imagination of energy futures, capable of deconstructing the logics of conquest, displacement and substitution that underpin dominant sustainability narratives. Against the “green infernal alternative” discussed by Stengers and Pignarre, ecotransfeminist practices advance a politics of reciprocity, repair and shared vulnerability, situating ecological transformation within a horizon of interspecies solidarity and the decolonisation of relations of care.