Volume V Special Issue VI December 2025

Name of Author : Arushi Elizebath Shaji

Title of the paper : Bearing Life Amid Ruins: Ecofeminist Perspectives on Climate Induced Migration in The End We Start From

Abstract: This paper reads Megan Hunters novel The End We Start From 2017 through an ecofeminist lens to examine how climate disaster shapes gendered vulnerability, migration, and survival. The novels lyric, fragmentary narration centers an unnamed mother navigating pregnancy, birth, and infant care in the aftermath of catastrophic flooding that forces mass evacuation. It argues that Hunter stages both the disproportionate vulnerabilities that befall women in climate crises pregnancy, caregiving, displacement and the generative forms of care, kinship, and agency that contest simplistic victim narratives. By combining textual close reading with ecofeminist theory and contemporary data on climate displacement, the paper shows how the novel reframes migration as embodied, gendered, and relational as well as how maternal care becomes a site of political and ecological knowledge.

Keywords : Ecofeminism, Climate Migration, Vulnerability

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Page Number : 157-159