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Gendering Climate and Sustainability
Issues - Challenges - Change
- What has gender to do with climate issues and changes?
- How is feminist and gender research implicated in the agenda and responses to climate changes and the quest for a sustainable world order?
- What kind of new challenges are produced by the recent focus on climate and sustainability for feminist research?
The goal of the conference is to focus on cutting edge questions of climate and sustainability from a gender perspective as well as contributing to the making of new and more inclusive visions of sustainability in accordance with definitions and strategies set out by the EU and other international forums aiming at "a better quality of life for everyone".
The conference aims at advancing ideas, concepts and practices in relation to gendered implications of climate changes and sustainability. How do the links of climate, sustainability and gender spell out in the 21st century? What have hegemonic western masculinities and femininities to do with climate and sustainability? How do the issues of climate change and sustainability challenge current key figures and constructionist thinking in feminist research?
Sessions and workshops
- Mainstreaming Gender, Climate and Sustainability
- Gendering and Queering Ecotopia
- Sustainable Masculinities
- Counter Consumerism and its Pleasures
- Sustainable work
- Transport and Mobility
- Good Practices
- Innovation
- Health and Nutrition
Objectives
1. Academic exchange and knowledge
The conference is interdisciplinary and has the aim to develop and link several important fields of knowledge. The conference will provide a gendered perspective on climate change providing a synthesis of existing and emerging knowledge on gender and climate change in order to make intelligent societal decisions concerning application of mitigation and adaptation strategies in response to climate change. Moreover the conference will contribute to making research in climate and sustainability gender sensitive and to making gender research sensitive to climate and sustainability issues. The possibility of fruitful exchanges and advancements of new perspectives will be ensured by the fact that both gender and sustainability research represents recent and dynamic developments in the field of knowledge production.
2. Development and consolidation of the field ‘gender and climate’
The aim of the conference is to explore how notions of gender effects policy making and practices in the field of climate and sustainability. In doing so the workshop shall address and confront prevailing romantic views of women’s sustainable practices in eco-feminism with gender as an analytical category and multi levelled and diverse gendered practices.
3. Make the field visible in the broader context of climate change related research
The perspective of gender is most often lacking within the climate research and the public debate. The conference aims at exploring the gendered implications related to a range of key issues regarding gender, climate changes and sustainability. The workshop will contribute to gender mainstreaming of thematic issues such as sustainable mobility, health and nutrition, consumption and sustainable identities as well as sustainable work. The focus will be on gender dimensions spelled out in conceptual, institutional and empirical frameworks.
The overall goal of the conference is to provide the following issues:
- Provide a status on the field of gender, climate and sustainability in terms of research, debates and blind spots.
- Provide a new conceptual and thematic framework for gender sensitive climate and sustainability research.
- Provide a meeting-place for a group of interdisciplinary and international researchers in the field.
- Distribute the results to an international public.
Organiser
The conference is organised by the Coordination for Gender Studies and has been supported by the priority area: Sustainability, Globalization, Environment and Development at the University of Copenhagen and the Danish Research Council.