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Engendering Climate Change Politics and Policy: European Feminist Perspectives

Environmental Policy
Gender
Green Politics
Policy Analysis
Social Justice
Feminism
Climate Change
P110
Sherilyn MacGregor
University of Manchester
Sherilyn MacGregor
University of Manchester

Building: BL07 P.A. Munchs hus, Floor: 1, Room: PAM SEM13

Friday 14:00 - 15:40 CEST (08/09/2017)

Abstract

The lack of attention to the gender dimensions of climate change politics and policy is well known. While there has been some scholarly analysis of how gender roles, relations and norms shape people's experiences of and responses to climate change in the global south, these topics have been largely ignored within affluent societies. This silence is not surprising given the neglect of gender politics and feminist research within the environmental politics more generally. The purpose of this panel is to bring together researchers working to interrogate the causes and effects of gender-blindness in this field as well as to fill the gaps through empirical research and critical theorizing. The focus is largely on the European context, with three papers presenting analyses of the extent to which gender appears in climate change policy in the EU, the UK and Scandinavian countries. The fourth paper takes a more global outlook, offering a feminist discourse analysis of how the climate crisis has been constructed in relation to a depoliticising narrative of the Anthropocene. The session will have a non-standard format, with an extended introduction by the chair/discussant who is a well-published expert on the feminist politics of climate change followed by 10 minute papers and responses by each presenter. The aim is to spend the majority of the time in chaired, collective discussion of current research that leads to identifying an agenda for new research and the development of a European network of researchers in this field. The chair/discussant will write and publish a blog on the session.

Title Details
Breaking ‘a Strange Silence’? The Frames of Gender and Climate Change in EU Institutions Reports View Paper Details
The Double Democratic Deficit in Climate Policy-making by the EU Commission View Paper Details
Climate Change Politics in the UK: A Feminist Intersectional Analysis View Paper Details
The (In)Visibility of Gender in Scandinavian Climate Policy-Making View Paper Details