Stefania Barca is Distinguished Researcher “Beatriz Galindo” senior at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain); she also holds the position of Senior Researcher at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (Portugal). Previous to this, she was Zennström professor in Climate Change Leadership at Uppsala University. As an environmental historian and political ecologist, she investigates the labour/ecology/gender nexus in the industrial era. Her scholarly works appeared in highly acclaimed academic journals such as Geoforum, Capitalism Nature Socialism, Environmental History, Ecological Economics, Environment and History, Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy and Globalizations among others, and have been also disseminated in extra-academic publications in several languages. She is active in international ecosocialist and degrowth networks.
Keeping the world alive and healthy: The radical realism of the “forces of reproduction” – An interview with Stefania Barca
While capitalism has taught us to identify the first with money-making and the second with life-making – a necessary but nevertheless subordinated, dependent and qualitatively inferior activity – climate justice movements are claiming the progressive, i.e. egalitarian, emancipatory, and wealth-producing agency of reproductive forces.
February 7, 2022