Presentation short abstract

This contribution focuses on the way in which the predicative deconstruction of attributes historically assigned to nature, women, and colonized peoples allows us to question the distinction between the concepts of human and nature still present in the debate on environmental question.

Presentation long abstract

This contribution aims to analyze the way in which materialist ecofeminist investigations allows us to overcome the distinction between human and nature that is still present in narratives relating to environmental question. The context of these narratives is one that views human and nature as concepts representing the two generic subjects of the ecological relationship, where the postulation of their intrinsic relationality actually conceals a philosophical paradigm that still treats them as two distinct domains to be united through an effort of conjunction. With regard to the interpretation of the global climate crisis, the ecofeminist perspective offers the tools to re-understand the concepts used. By focusing on the association between women and nature in a movement aimed at its deconstruction, it allows us to question the specific subjects present within the two concepts mentioned above, thus managing to go beyond the abstraction that presupposes a difference between the two. Following the importance recognized by the authors in the study of descriptive attributes, this work will be conducted through an examination of the predicates assigned to the different subjects present in the two reference categories, showing how the predicative commonality that affected nature, women, and colonized peoples leads to questioning the very concepts of human and nature in their formal distinction, revealing how their historical roots actually conceal their true interpenetration.