Beyond dichotomies: Gender and intersecting inequalities in climate change studies
Climate change and related adaptation strategies have gender-differentiated impacts. This paper reviews how gender is framed in 41 papers on climate change adaptation through an intersectionality lens. The main findings show that while intersectional analysis has demonstrated many advantages for a c...
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| author | Djoudi, H. Locatelli, Bruno Vaast, C. Asher, K. Brockhaus, Maria Sijapati Basnett, Bimbika |
| author_browse | Asher, K. Brockhaus, Maria Djoudi, H. Locatelli, Bruno Sijapati Basnett, Bimbika Vaast, C. |
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| description | Climate change and related adaptation strategies have gender-differentiated impacts. This paper reviews how gender is framed in 41 papers on climate change adaptation through an intersectionality lens. The main findings show that while intersectional analysis has demonstrated many advantages for a comprehensive study of gender, it has not yet entered the field of climate change and gender. In climate change studies, gender is mostly handled in a men-versus-women dichotomy and little or no attention has been paid to power and social and political relations. These gaps which are echoed in other domains of development and gender research depict a ‘feminization of vulnerability’ and reinforce a ‘victimization’ discourse within climate change studies. We argue that a critical intersectional assessment would contribute to unveil agency and emancipatory pathways in the adaptation process by providing a better understanding of how the differential impacts of climate change shape, and are shaped by, the complex power dynamics of existing social and political relations. |
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| spelling | CGSpace941712025-06-17T08:24:00Z Beyond dichotomies: Gender and intersecting inequalities in climate change studies Djoudi, H. Locatelli, Bruno Vaast, C. Asher, K. Brockhaus, Maria Sijapati Basnett, Bimbika gender climate change adaptation Climate change and related adaptation strategies have gender-differentiated impacts. This paper reviews how gender is framed in 41 papers on climate change adaptation through an intersectionality lens. The main findings show that while intersectional analysis has demonstrated many advantages for a comprehensive study of gender, it has not yet entered the field of climate change and gender. In climate change studies, gender is mostly handled in a men-versus-women dichotomy and little or no attention has been paid to power and social and political relations. These gaps which are echoed in other domains of development and gender research depict a ‘feminization of vulnerability’ and reinforce a ‘victimization’ discourse within climate change studies. We argue that a critical intersectional assessment would contribute to unveil agency and emancipatory pathways in the adaptation process by providing a better understanding of how the differential impacts of climate change shape, and are shaped by, the complex power dynamics of existing social and political relations. 2016-12 2018-07-03T10:57:05Z 2018-07-03T10:57:05Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/94171 en Open Access Springer Djoudi, H., Locatelli, B., Vaast, C., Asher, K., Brockhaus, M., Sijapati Basnett, B.. 2016. Beyond dichotomies : Gender and intersecting inequalities in climate change studies. Ambio, 45 (Supplement 3) : 248-262. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-016-0825-2 |
| spellingShingle | gender climate change adaptation Djoudi, H. Locatelli, Bruno Vaast, C. Asher, K. Brockhaus, Maria Sijapati Basnett, Bimbika Beyond dichotomies: Gender and intersecting inequalities in climate change studies |
| title | Beyond dichotomies: Gender and intersecting inequalities in climate change studies |
| title_full | Beyond dichotomies: Gender and intersecting inequalities in climate change studies |
| title_fullStr | Beyond dichotomies: Gender and intersecting inequalities in climate change studies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Beyond dichotomies: Gender and intersecting inequalities in climate change studies |
| title_short | Beyond dichotomies: Gender and intersecting inequalities in climate change studies |
| title_sort | beyond dichotomies gender and intersecting inequalities in climate change studies |
| topic | gender climate change adaptation |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/94171 |
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