Confronting the Climate Crisis: Feminist Pathways to Just and Sustainable Futures

Mar 24, 2020 | Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights
Boston, USA
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Please note: this event has been postponed.

Our reason for holding this symposium is to call attention not only to the climate crisis, but also to what is at stake in the kinds of solutions that are proposed for it. Many of the proposed “fixes” are rooted in the same political economic paradigms and worldviews that created the current climate and ecological crises in the first place; they often not only pose great environmental risks themselves, but also threaten to gravely deepen existing gender, racial and global inequalities. However, there are also encouraging signs that many activists and researchers are approaching climate breakdown with a global justice perspective. Our goal is to highlight, among them, the critically important work being done by feminist political economists and feminist political ecologists who outline the sorts of radical solutions that the crisis demands, proposing fundamental shifts in the dominant global economic model.

Who: Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights

Where: Boston, USA

When: 24 March 2020