More-than-Human Care and Spatial Justice: Ecofeminist Approaches to Everyday Care Environments in Mexico City

Although care and gender mainstreaming are increasingly recognized as key dimensions of sustainable urban planning, an analysis of their implementation in Mexico reveals the conceptual and material limitations of anthropocentric approaches to care within public space projects. In this article, we argue that ecofeminist and posthumanist perspectives on care help foreground the spatial and environmental dimensions of Everyday Care Environments (ECEs), highlighting ecosystemic interdependencies that remain largely overlooked in research focused on domestic, feminized, and family-based aspects of care work. Through qualitative research based on documentary analysis of local urban planning instruments and gender initiatives in Mexico City (CDMX) in the last 25 years, this article identifies persistent gaps in the integration of care work, safety, mobility, and intersectional perspectives into sustainable urban policy and practice. The findings offer insights for developing planning strategies capable of creating ECE that foster More-than-Human socio-environmental understandings of care, while advancing nature-based and ecosystem-oriented approaches to spatial justice.