• Dr.Shweta Tewari

The concept of social justice and environmental justice are related and should be addressed together because of their similarities in terms of their domination and oppression by the society believed to be still largely patriarchal. Ecofeminism is the new school of thought that employs approaches from Ecology and Feminism both , establishes how we can place women and environment on the same platform and discuss the atrocities inflicted upon them by the more powerful class (males) and draws connections between the two kinds of injustice(one towards nature and one towards women). Ecofeminists claims that women are closer to the nature and they both effect each other in a significant manner. This has been the basis of all the theories purported by various Ecofeminists who argue on these lines with an empirical , epistemological , ethical, political approach establishing these strong connections between nature and women. Degradation of the environment has affected the women more than the men and deprived a huge section of the women population across the globe of their local resources of food and fodder, about which the Ecofeminists have provided ample evidence . Ecofeminism as a movement to bring justice to women and nature had its existence in India even before it became a global topic and its philosophy reflects in the struggles of its major movements like the Chipko movement and also strongly felt in the writings of some notable Indian authors who have glorified both nature and women and their interdependence in their writings .The efforts of women in the success of Ecofeminist struggle (which still continues) has been explicit. The Ecofeminists call upon the Educators to adopt an Ecofeminst pedagogy to acquaint the learners about connections social justice and environmental justice has from an early stage of schooling. The paper also includes a brief discussion on the Ecofeminist view about how in the name of modernisation , patenting , increasing national income , the local resources are being exploited and how commodification of local resources is affecting the women and nature in the most dreadful ways .

Ecofeminism , Ecology , Feminism , Women , Nature , Power , Domination , Modernisation

"ECOFEMISNISM : CONNECTING SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND THE ROLE OF EDUCATION", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 9, page no.a741-a748, September-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2209080.pdf

"ECOFEMISNISM : CONNECTING SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND THE ROLE OF EDUCATION", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 9, page no. ppa741-a748, September-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2209080.pdf