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Maria Mies is a Marxist feminist scholar who is renowned for her theory of capitalist patriarchy, which recognizes third world women and difference. She is a professor of sociology at Cologne University of Applied Sciences, but retired from teaching in 1993. Since the late 1960s she has been involved with feminist activism. In 1979, at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, she founded the Women and Development programme. Her other titles published by Zed Books include The Lace Makers of Narsapur (1982), Women: The Last Colony (1988), The Subsistence Perspective (1999) and Ecofeminism (2014). Ariel Salleh is a scholar-activist; appointed Visiting Professor, Instituto de Humanidades, Artes e Ciencias, Universidade Federal de Bahia, Brasil for 2025-26; a Founding Member of the Global University for Sustainability, Hong Kong, and a Visiting Professor in Humanities, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. Her classic book Ecofeminism as Politics: nature, Marx, and the postmodern (2017) and some 300 articles are available in multiple translations. In 2019, she co-edited Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary with Ashish Kothari, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria and Alberto Acosta. |