Mary’s presentation for The Food Research Collaboration argues that ecofeminism can provide a framework for sustainable provisioning based on sufficiency (enough) and social justice (an equal right to livelihood). Ecofeminism provides a critique of neoliberal economics because it exposes the linked oppression and marginalisation of ‘women’s work’ (work around the body and sustenance) and the exploitation and degradation of the natural environment.

The boundary that excludes both is economic value expressed through the allocation of money: paid versus unpaid or low-paid work and nature as a ‘free’ resource. Rather than arguing for the abandonment of money systems the case will be made that money needs to be democratised and re-oriented to public and social benefit.

Mary Mellor’s book Money: Myths, Truths and Alternatives is available here.

The video was filmed and posted on The Food Research Collaboration in February 2016.

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