Abstract

The aim of this project is to explore the concepts of oppression and the environment, in doing so I aim to prove that the manipulation and exploitation of the environment and oppressed people are constitutive of one another. My central claim being that the subordination of oppressed people and the environment are facilitated by the same mechanisms, namely dualistic logic and the episteme and social structures that come about as a result of its hierarchical value systems. In evaluating the relationship between oppression and environmental degradation I provide methods of resistance and liberation that exist outside of the dualistic logic of of oppression. In changing our environmental ethics to utilize principles of care and respect we can find, develop and establish new resistant ways of being and relating to one another. Changing our relations to one another and the environment necessitates the destruction of all forms of oppression all at once, thus beginning the process of liberation and revolution. These ideas can thus take us out of the oppressive episteme we find ourselves in allowing us to create new and imaginative futures.

Advisor

McBride, Lee

Department

Philosophy

Disciplines

Ethics and Political Philosophy | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Feminist Philosophy | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies

Keywords

Feminism, Decolonial, Ecofeminism, Women, Indigenous Philosophy, Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Oppression

Publication Date

2026

Degree Granted

Bachelor of Arts

Document Type

Senior Independent Study Thesis

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