Isis International-Manila invites feminists, researchers, and academics to submit original work on or related to feminist political ecology—the theme for the upcoming second issue of Isis’ Women in Action (WIA) this year.

Feminist political ecology provides an interdisciplinary framework for understanding the importance of gender in shaping processes of resource management and sustainable development. Although still an evolving concept, feminist political ecology weaves into a single framework a feminist perspective combined with analysis of ecological, economic and political power relations. It reveals how women are further marginalised when basic needs, like food and water, are privatised.

This second issue of WIA for 2007 intends to look at how the framework allows women from the developing South to further interrogate and critique how neoliberal policies play out in the local and national contexts. More specifically, policies geared towards the implementation of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), and ongoing Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAP) will be examined. Issues such as agriculture, fisheries, forestry, mining, water management, food sovereignty, and land rights, among others will be analysed from a feminist political ecology lens.

Isis International-Manila invites feminists, researchers, and academics to send articles for the upcoming issue of WIA No. 2, 2007 on the thematic area of Feminist Political Ecology, specifically looking at:
1) Gender roles
- How do dimensions of identity such as race, class, ethnicity and age inflect our gendered experiences of the environment? How are these experiences implicated within both the microlevel practices of everyday life, as well as the macrolevel policies of state and corporate entities?
2) Gendered knowledge
-In what ways has the feminist political ecology framework problematise ongoing discussions on the environment vis-à-vis modernisation and development?
- What are the implications of feminist political ecology on more “mainstream” discourses surrounding both feminism and political ecology?
3) Gendered activism
- What tools does the feminist political ecology framework brings to social movements involved in feminism and/or political ecology?
- How do women's engagement in the decision-making processes on environmental policies at the local, national, and international levels restructured environments, economies and cultures?

Isis welcomes original articles, or previously presented but unpublished presentations and workshop reports. Submissions may be tailored for the following WIA sections:

*Features—Articles in this section are short research papers, empirical or otherwise, with in-depth analysis. Approximately 3,500-4,500 words.

*Community and Independent Media (CIM)—This section features articles with a CIM take on the theme. Approximately 3,500-4,500 words.

*One on One—This section features an interview or exchanges between two perspectives. Approximately 3,000–4,000 words.

*Talking Points—Articles in this section are opinion pieces. Approximately 1,500-2,500 words.

*We’ve Got Male—This section features a male perspective on the theme. Approximately 3,000–4,000 words.

*Isis Reviews—This section features reviews of books, films, exhibits, websites and the like on the theme. Approximately 1,000-2,000 words.

Contributors are requested to submit together with their article, a short biography of not more than 80 words, and contact information (postal address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail). As well, photos or graphics that may be used for their article or for the issue in general, are most welcome.

Email submissions to <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.> on or before July 20, 2007.

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