Mothering in a Time of Climate Change Precarity in North America

Edited by Allison Davis

Mounting scientific evidence and observable environmental shifts have led to widespread acknowledgment of climate change as an undeniable reality. In this context, increased attention has been brought to motherhood and mothering practices within the climate crisis—a time in which planetary doom is a real possibility. Drawing on their maternal standpoints, contributors explore such issues as mainstream environmentalism’s exclusion of mothers as environmental advocates, hegemonic motherhood discourses and practices, mothering in shared human and more-than-human ecosystems, and transformational maternal ethics. They demonstrate that innovative, ecologically informed mothering practices can shift harmful paradigms of normative motherhood, deepen our relationships with nature, and build foundations for more ethical, ecological advocacy.