Paper short abstract:

This study examines the potentiality of ecofeminism in cyberspace in realizing a global public sphere and polity, and integrating non-represented or underrepresented worldviews in sustainability governance while mitigating traditional power imbalances rooted in hierarchy and value dualism.

Paper long abstract:

Women, minorities (particularly indigenous), and Nature have spatially and temporally borne the brunt of domination systems – epitomized by neoliberalism's exclusionary modus operandi – which underlies contemporary society's biggest existential threat: climate change. Contextualized by the socio-ecological polycrisis, this study proposes and examines, through an ontological and critical theory lens, the potentiality of ecofeminism in cyberspace and digital networks in realizing a global public sphere and polity empowered with a deeper socio-ecological relational consciousness and the capacity to integrate non-represented or underrepresented worldviews in sustainability governance while mitigating traditional power imbalances rooted in hierarchy and value dualism. In this regard, the study highlights the African ethical epistemology and ontology of Ubuntu in challenging the mechanistic mindset and the logic of domination and hierarchical valuation of Eurocentric cosmopolitanism that have traditionally governed relations between North and South, genders, peoples, and humanity and Nature.