Ariel Salleh, Australian researcher and world figure in ecofeminism, will be in France from May 19 to 28. Here are two moments when we might bump into each other:

On the 20th, she takes part in a study day at La Sorbonne on ecomarxisms, with Sara Marano, Daniel Tanuro and Michael Löwy, among others. Open to the public with prior registration required for access to the University.

On the 22nd, she will be at the Utopia bookshop with Geneviève Pruvost for a discussion moderated by Fabrice Flipo, who also edits the magazine Bifurcation/s.

Le 26 she will be in Toulouse at la Maison de la Recherche.

Finally, on the 28th, she will be in Marseille for a public meeting with Jeanne Burgat-Goutal, who has (aptly) prefaced the French edition of her book. The venue will be 27 Bd Philippon, and I’ll let you know the time as soon as we know it.

Ariel met Françoise briefly through Julia Kristeva in the early ’80s and, as she herself says, only recently gained access to her work, being at the time in other currents, notably that of L’Ecole de Blelefeld and the subsistence feminism of Maria Mies, whom Françoise did not know.

I highly recommend Ariel’s book Pour une politique écoféministe, finally translated 30 years after its publication in English, a seminal work from early 1990. In it, she introduces political concepts such as “embodied materialism” and the “meta-industrial class” to analyze the practical work and epistemology of understanding the natural systems that make possible the life on earth shared by women, farmers and indigenous peoples.