Feminist frontiers in climate justice : gender equality, climate change and rights / Cathi Albertyn [and four others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Albertyn, Cathi, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Law and legislation.

Climatic changes.

Women and the environment.

Climate justice.

Feminist jurisprudence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.

Summary:

"Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice provides a compelling demonstration of the deeply gendered and unequal effects of the climate emergency, alongside the urgent need for a feminist perspective to expose and address these structural political, social and economic inequalities. Taking a nuanced, multidisciplinary approach, this book explores new ways of thinking about how climate change interacts with gender inequalities and feminist concerns with rights and law, and how the human world is bound up with the non-human, natural world. With contributions from leading scholars in law, feminism, human rights and politics, this book considers how equality is conceptualised, experienced and used in policies, law and practice that are integral to climate justice. Chapters reveal how international and national policy and legal frameworks fall short on gender equality and climate justice. Overall, the book demonstrates that the climate crisis demands an ambitious and transformative approach to equality, including developing feminist ideas of care and social reproduction, to reconstruct law and policy towards a more just world for all. This ground-breaking book will be essential reading for scholars across many areas of law including environmental law, human rights, public international law, law and gender, and law and development. Its discussion of the international framework alongside in-depth case studies and assessments of women's mobilization strategies will also be highly relevant to social scientists, officials in international organizations, policymakers, lawyers and activists"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

|g Introduction: |t Feminist frontiers in climate justice : gender equality, climate change and rights / |r Cathi Albertyn, Helena Alviar Garci´a, Meghan Campbell, Sandra Fredman and Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado

|t The inequality of climate change and the difference it makes / |r Shreya Atrey

|t A critical evaluation of inter-generational equity and its application in the climate change context / |r Kate Wilkinson Cross

|t A feminist critique on gender based violence in a changing climate : seeing, listening and responding / |r Rowena Maguire

|t A greener CEDAW : adopting a women's substantive equality approach to climate change / |r Meghan Campbell

|t The world of work : a green and feminist future? / |r Sandra Fredman

|t Radical connectedness : reproductive rights, climate justice and gender equality / |r Cathi Albertyn

|t Gender equality and climate change in plural legal contexts : a critical analysis of Kenya's law and policy framework / |r Patricia Kameri-Mbote and Nkatha Kabira

|t Climate change and gender in Colombia : exploring female led struggle in the flower industry / |r Helena Alviar Garci´a and Mari´a Carolina Olarte-Olarte

|t The value of litigation to women environmental human rights defenders in South Africa / |r Lisa Chamberlain

|t 'Grass in the cracks' : gender, social reproduction and climate justice in the Xolobeni struggle / |r Beth Goldblatt and Shireen Hassim

|t Indigenous women against Bolsonaro's government in Brazil : resisting right-wing authoritarianism and demanding climate justice / |r Marta Machado, Denise Vitale and Danielle Rached.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80392-379-2