Mothers, Mothering and Climate Change Format: Trade Paperback

Mothers, Mothering and Climate Change is as much about climate change as it is about the importance of community care and intergenerational justice. Considering climate change and mothering, how do we hold space for seemingly conflicting stories, ones that attempt to document and stall an inevitable end while others focus on new beginnings? Can mothering encompass both conditions, be pulled in opposite directions, and exist within this tension? Are we not, yet again, asking mothers to do it all? In response, this collection answers these questions and explores them in an interdisciplinary anthology that brings together voices of concerned matricentric feminist theorists, researchers, and activists from a wide range of disciplines and fields. These include anthropology, women’ s and gender studies, cultural studies, literary studies, social sciences and humanities. Creative contributions complement academic writing and include personal essay/reflection, academic essay, memoir, creative non-fiction, diary style, poetry, art, photography, and hybrid genres.

Sarah Marie Wiebe, PhD is an Associate Professor, writer, researcher, mixed media storyteller and political ecologist based in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria. Her research interests include Climate CARE (Community Actions and Responses to Extreme weather events), public engagement, participatory governance and environmental justice. She is the Co-Founder of the FERN collaborative (Feminist Environmental Research Network) and her most recently published book with Fernwood Press is entitled Hot Mess: Mothering through a Code Red Climate Emergency. Carolina Toscano, PhD received her doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington. She teaches writing instruction and literature in the English department at Saint Louis University’ s Madrid Campus and oversees the first-year writing program and the student writing center. Carolina studies feminist maternal theory, migration, and climate change in contemporary literature from Spain, Latin America, and the US.