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Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice
Gender Equality, Climate Change and Rights
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Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice provides a compelling demonstration of the deeply gendered and unequal effects of the climate emergency, alongside the urgent need for a feminist perspective to expose and address these structural political, social and economic inequalities. Taking a nuanced, multidisciplinary approach, this book explores new ways of thinking about how climate change interacts with gender inequalities and feminist concerns with rights and law, and how the human world is bound up with the non-human, natural world.
Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice provides a compelling demonstration of the deeply gendered and unequal effects of the climate emergency, alongside the urgent need for a feminist perspective to expose and address these structural political, social and economic inequalities. Taking a nuanced, multidisciplinary approach, this book explores new ways of thinking about how climate change interacts with gender inequalities and feminist concerns with rights and law, and how the human world is bound up with the non-human, natural world.
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Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice provides a compelling demonstration of the deeply gendered and unequal effects of the climate emergency, alongside the urgent need for a feminist perspective to expose and address these structural political, social and economic inequalities. Taking a nuanced, multidisciplinary approach, this book explores new ways of thinking about how climate change interacts with gender inequalities and feminist concerns with rights and law, and how the human world is bound up with the non-human, natural world.
With contributions from leading scholars in law, feminism, human rights and politics, this book considers how equality is conceptualised, experienced and used in policies, law and practice that are integral to climate justice. Chapters reveal how international and national policy and legal frameworks fall short on gender equality and climate justice. Overall, the book demonstrates that the climate crisis demands an ambitious and transformative approach to equality, including developing feminist ideas of care and social reproduction, to reconstruct law and policy towards a more just world for all.
This ground-breaking book will be essential reading for scholars across many areas of law including environmental law, human rights, public international law, law and gender, and law and development. Its discussion of the international framework alongside in-depth case
studies and assessments of women’s mobilization strategies will also be highly relevant to social scientists, officials in international organizations, policymakers, lawyers and activists.
With contributions from leading scholars in law, feminism, human rights and politics, this book considers how equality is conceptualised, experienced and used in policies, law and practice that are integral to climate justice. Chapters reveal how international and national policy and legal frameworks fall short on gender equality and climate justice. Overall, the book demonstrates that the climate crisis demands an ambitious and transformative approach to equality, including developing feminist ideas of care and social reproduction, to reconstruct law and policy towards a more just world for all.
This ground-breaking book will be essential reading for scholars across many areas of law including environmental law, human rights, public international law, law and gender, and law and development. Its discussion of the international framework alongside in-depth case
studies and assessments of women’s mobilization strategies will also be highly relevant to social scientists, officials in international organizations, policymakers, lawyers and activists.
Critical Acclaim
‘Hearty congratulations to the authors of Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice for exposing the gender discriminatory dimensions of climate injustices. The best way to honor this book is to read it and ask how we can bring feminist perspectives to the development of mitigation and adaptation strategies necessary to achieve climate justice.’
– Rebecca Cook, University of Toronto, Canada
– Rebecca Cook, University of Toronto, Canada
Contributors
Contributors: Cathi Albertyn, Helena Alviar García, Shreya Atrey, Meghan Campbell, Lisa Chamberlain, Sandra Fredman, Beth Goldblatt, Shireen Hassim, Nkatha Kabira, Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Rowena Maguire, María Carolina Olarte Olarte, Danielle Rached, Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado, Denise Vitale, Kate Wilkinson Cross
Contents
Contents:
Introduction – Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice: Rights,
climate change and gender equality 1
Cathi Albertyn, Helena Alviar García, Meghan Campbell,
Sandra Fredman and Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado
1 The inequality of climate change and the difference it makes 17
Shreya Atrey
2 A critical evaluation of inter-generational equity and its
application in the climate change context 40
Kate Wilkinson Cross
3 A feminist critique on gender based violence in
a changing climate: Seeing, listening and responding 68
Rowena Maguire
4 A greener CEDAW: Adopting a women’s substantive
equality approach to climate change 90
Meghan Campbell
5 The world of work: A green and feminist future? 116
Sandra Fredman
6 Radical connectedness: Reproductive rights, climate
justice and gender equality 138
Cathi Albertyn
7 Gender equality and climate change in plural legal
contexts: A critical analysis of Kenya’s law and policy framework 165
Patricia Kameri-Mbote and Nkatha Kabira
8 Climate change and gender in Colombia: Exploring
female led struggle in the flower industry 188
Helena Alviar García and María Carolina Olarte-Olarte
9 The value of litigation to women environmental human
rights defenders in South Africa 213
Lisa Chamberlain
10 ‘Grass in the cracks’: Gender, social reproduction and
climate justice in the Xolobeni struggle 246
Beth Goldblatt and Shireen Hassim
11 Indigenous women against Bolsonaro’s government
in Brazil: Resisting right-wing authoritarianism and
demanding climate justice 268
Marta Machado, Denise Vitale and Danielle Rached
Index
Introduction – Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice: Rights,
climate change and gender equality 1
Cathi Albertyn, Helena Alviar García, Meghan Campbell,
Sandra Fredman and Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado
1 The inequality of climate change and the difference it makes 17
Shreya Atrey
2 A critical evaluation of inter-generational equity and its
application in the climate change context 40
Kate Wilkinson Cross
3 A feminist critique on gender based violence in
a changing climate: Seeing, listening and responding 68
Rowena Maguire
4 A greener CEDAW: Adopting a women’s substantive
equality approach to climate change 90
Meghan Campbell
5 The world of work: A green and feminist future? 116
Sandra Fredman
6 Radical connectedness: Reproductive rights, climate
justice and gender equality 138
Cathi Albertyn
7 Gender equality and climate change in plural legal
contexts: A critical analysis of Kenya’s law and policy framework 165
Patricia Kameri-Mbote and Nkatha Kabira
8 Climate change and gender in Colombia: Exploring
female led struggle in the flower industry 188
Helena Alviar García and María Carolina Olarte-Olarte
9 The value of litigation to women environmental human
rights defenders in South Africa 213
Lisa Chamberlain
10 ‘Grass in the cracks’: Gender, social reproduction and
climate justice in the Xolobeni struggle 246
Beth Goldblatt and Shireen Hassim
11 Indigenous women against Bolsonaro’s government
in Brazil: Resisting right-wing authoritarianism and
demanding climate justice 268
Marta Machado, Denise Vitale and Danielle Rached
Index
