theory, to which Margulis was a major contributor. Plagued by frequent misrepresentations as “new agey” or even anti-science, Gaia theory frames Earth not as a living organism (because it recycles its own waste) but rather as a living system, the
Explicating Ecoculture
Tracing a Transdisciplinary Focal Concept
Melissa M. Parks
and culture, particularly in order to demonstrate the connections between exploitation of the earth and exploitation of marginalized peoples. The Gaia theory, for instance, emphasized the scientific fact that “all life and all material parts of the
