Climate change through the lens of intersectionality
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Investigations of the interconnectedness of climate change with human societies require profound analysis of relations among humans and between humans and nature, and the integration of insights from various academic fields. An intersectional approach, developed within critical feminist theory, is advantageous. An intersectional analysis of climate change illuminates how different individuals and groups relate differently to climate change, due to their situatedness in power structures based on context-specific and dynamic social categorisations. Intersectionality sketches out a pathway that stays clear of traps of essentialisation, enabling solidarity and agency across and beyond social categories. It can illustrate how power structures and categorisations may be reinforced, but also challenged and renegotiated, in realities of climate change. We engage with intersectionality as a tool for critical thinking, and provide a set of questions that may serve as sensitisers for intersectional analyses on climate change.
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In the context of justice in climate change, intersectionality is increasingly being applied to examine the overlapping and interdependent systems of disadvantage and oppression that restrict people's adaptive capacity and create new or exacerbate existing social-ecological vulnerabilities.
“In the context of justice in climate change, intersectionality is increasingly being applied to examine the overlapping and interdependent systems of disadvantage and oppression that restrict people's adaptive capacity and create new or exacerbate existing social-ecological vulnerabilities (Djoudi et al., 2016;Kaijser and Kronsell, 2014).”
From Intersectional climate justice: A conceptual pathway for bridging adaptation planning, transformative action, and social equity (2022) · cites this paper as Kaijser and Kronsell, 2014
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Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredRecent scholarship has acknowledged the need for intersectional approaches to climate adaptation.
“Recent scholarship has similarly acknowledged the need for intersectional approaches to climate adaptation (see Djoudi et al., 2016;Kaijser and Kronsell, 2014;Owusu et al., 2019); however, this paper argues for a formalized conceptual pivot towards intersectionality and offers a framework for operationalizing intersectional thinking in climate planning and policy-making on the ground.”
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- Authors
- Kaijser, A., & Kronsell, A.
- Affiliations
- Lund University (SE)
- Corresponding author
- Kaijser, Anna
- ORCID
- Kronsell, Annica
- Venue
- Environmental Politics
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2013-10-11
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 417-433
- ISSN
- 0964-4016 (ISSN-L)
- 1743-8934
- OpenAlex
- W2053510621
- Cited by
- 784
- References
- 3
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- FWCI
- 31.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Environmental Politics (publishedVersion)
- Lund University Publications (Lund University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Feminist Theory and Gender Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality
- Keywords
- climate change, intersectionality, critical feminist theory, power structures, social categorization, human-nature relationship, solidarity, agency, social inequality
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