Wangari Maathai – an African woman leader who decolonised environmental discourse

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1 The term emerged in the 1990s to describe a movement that “connected ecology and democracy through everyday material practices and local participatory democracy from a … communitarian perspective” (Eckersley 2020, p.1). Specifically, I refer to the centring of the relationship between the earth/land and ecology and women – who are the providers for families. As a form of material practise it needs to be distinguished from the dominant colonial land-use which leached and deforested the land.

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Lou Haysom

 LOU HAYSOM has worked for Agenda for several years in the capacity of editor and more recently consulting editor. Email: [email protected]