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On my almost daily bicycle rides in the mornings of the spring and early summer 2013 I began noticing the presence of several women wearing trousers with large printed patterns. I wondered whether this might indicate a certain shift from the dominant modern mono-chromatic norm regarding Nordic / Danish women’s urban (summer) dress. To what extent are fashion norms influencing and interacting with other social and societal norms including, what has in the Western world long been called legal norms – most often understood as state produced norms.

This article seeks to bring together aspects regarding issues of gender, legal pluralism, ecofeminism, sustainability, and globalization. I have been inspired by increasing interaction with interdisciplinary researchers in Denmark and China working on gender dynamics in a globalized and Asianized world, as well as by an interest in art as a source of understanding and expressing communal norms, values and conflicts. The article reflects upon the links between the high value of economic growth in both regions and art and artistic installations, which express increasing concern about the consequences of growth, amongst other things for economic inequality and sustainability. Linking and assembling such critical concerns, practices and expressions might be a way of approaching a reconstitution of global and local orders, including ambivalent and uncertain gender orders in the near future.

I dette nummer er følgnde bøger blevet anmeldt:Vandana Shiva: Soil not Oil. Climate Change, Peak Oil and Food Insecurity. Zed Books, London, 2008.Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman (eds.): Material Feminisms. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 2008.Ariel Salleh (Ed.): Eco-Sufficiency and Global Justice. Women write political ecology. Pluto Press and Pinifex Press, 2009.