Patriarchy and climate change

Noémi Gonda, Central European University

Patriarchy and climate change: a feminist political ecology of climate

change adaptation in rural Nicaragua

http://www.oxfam.org/en/campaigns/climatechange/3-facts-about-climate-change-women [retrieved February 7, 2013]

Climate change narratives

Noémi Gonda, Central European University

Patriarchy and climate change: a feminist political ecology of climate change adaptation in rural Nicaragua

How they reinforce gender inequalities?

Nicaraguan rural women

and men’s experiences of climate change

Photo: Noémi Gonda, 2014

Climate change’s biophysical impacts

Graph: ECLAC 2011

http://blogs.dickinson.edu/ecofeminism/files/2012/04/mother_earth1.jpg [retrieved March 11 2015]

Picture: Noémi Gonda, 2013

National priority: adaptation

World

Economic

Forum,

2014

1) Gender ≠ Women

Recommendations (1/3)

2) Recognize gender biases conveyed by climate change policies and interventions.

Recognition

Distribution

Participation

Gender Justice

3) Re-conceptualize gender justice in climate change beyond (women’s) participation . http://vang.blob.core.windows.n

et/images/2013/03/26/mujer_221211.jpg [retrieved March 13, 2015]

D. Schlosberg 2009

Recommendations (2/3)

4) More “gender-smart” practices in the climate change field.

5) More qualitative and feminist research on climate change.

Recommendations (3/3)

Thank you!

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