Chris Cuomo (philosopher)
{{Short description|American philosopher}}
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Chris Cuomo is the Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of Georgia.{{cite web|title=Chris Cuomo|url=http://www.phil.uga.edu/directory/chris-cuomo|publisher=University of Georgia|access-date=24 August 2013}} She is also an affiliate faculty member of the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program, the Institute for African-American Studies, and the Institute for Native American Studies (all also at the University of Georgia). Before moving to the University of Georgia, Cuomo was the Obed J. Wilson Professor of Ethics at the University of Cincinnati.
Education and career
Cuomo received her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1992.{{cite web|last=Cuomo|first=Chris|title=November/December 2012: Chris Cuomo|url=http://www.apaonlinecsw.org/home/woman_philosopher/novemberdecember2012chriscuomo|work=Highlighted Philosophers|publisher=American Philosophical Association|access-date=24 August 2013}}
Prior to her current appointment at the University of Georgia, Cuomo held appointments at the University of Cincinnati (where she was the Obed J. Wilson Professor of Ethics,) as well as at Cornell University, Amherst College and Murdoch University. Besides her academic appointments, Cuomo has also received research grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the National Council for Research on Women, and Idea for Creative Exploration.
Research areas
Cuomo's work has covered a wide area, but her primary focuses have included attempts to articulate feminist philosophy on its own terms and interdisciplinary efforts to bridge the gap between theory and practice, especially in ways which join social and environmental concerns.{{cite news|title=Environmentalist talks about eco-feminism and climate change|url=http://www.news.appstate.edu/2013/03/12/chris-cuomo/|access-date=24 August 2013|newspaper=Appalachian State University News|date=12 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831031000/http://www.news.appstate.edu/2013/03/12/chris-cuomo/|archive-date=31 August 2013|url-status=dead}} She has also brought feminist approaches in to a wide variety of other theoretical fields, including environmental ethics, environmental justice, climate justice, and various forms of activism. Much of Cuomo's current research focuses on climate justice and how indigenous knowledge is crucial for understanding the effects of, and solutions to, climate change.
Publications
Cuomo has authored or co-authored several books, including:
=Feminism and Ecological Communities: An Ethic of Flourishing=
In Feminism and Ecological Communities: An Ethic of Flourishing, Cuomo, in a significant departure from earlier scholars, proposes a theoretical framework for ecofeminism that emphasizes the feminism over the eco.{{cite journal|last=Bartsch|first=Ingrid|title=Feminism and Ecological Communities: An Ethic of Flourishing by Chris J. Cuomo; Ecofeminist Natures: Race, Gender, Feminist Theory and Political Action by Noël Sturgeon (Review)|journal=Hypatia|year=2001|volume=16|issue=2|pages=109–111|jstor=3810553|doi=10.1353/hyp.2001.0016|s2cid=145684448}} Cuomo argues, far more strongly than traditional environmental ethicists, that the subordination of nature to man cannot be properly understood without first understanding the subordination of woman to man.{{cite journal|last=J. Warren|first=Karen|title=Feminism and Ecological Communities: An Ethic of Flourishing by Chris J. Cuomo; Feminism and Ecology by Mary Mellor; Life and Death Matters: Human Rights and the Environment at the End of the Millennium by Barbara Rose Johnston (Review)|journal=Signs|date=Winter 2001|volume=26|issue=2|pages=610–614|jstor=3175469|doi=10.1086/495620}} A key component of Cuomo's ecological feminism is the idea of 'flourishing' – a condition wherein attention is paid not only to the interests of the person who does the valuing, but also to the interests of the thing that is being valued.
References
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External links
- [http://philpapers.org/profile/15306 Chris Cuomo on PhilPapers]
- [https://uga.academia.edu/ChrisCuomo Chris Cuomo on Academia.edu]
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Category:American women philosophers
Category:Scholars of feminist philosophy
Category:University of Georgia faculty
Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Category:21st-century American philosophers
Category:20th-century American philosophers
Category:20th-century American women