5th ISA Forum of Sociology (6-11 July 2025)

It has been well-established that climate change impacts such as economic impacts, health challenges, adaptation and coping strategies are gendered in nature. Therefore, this session seeks to invite papers that focus on gender and climate change in the global South as well as in the global North. We also challenge the tendency to disengage gender from merely being about women while actively considering and focusing on men and masculinities as well. Papers that examine solastalgia - the distress or anxiety induced by environmental change, especially when one's home environment is altered or degraded (Albrecht, 2005), as well as the susceptibility and impact of climate change, with a specific focus on gender, are encouraged. In addition, we encourage submissions on coping strategies related to gender, as well as topics such as health and wellbeing, and one's sense of location in relation to climate change induced solastalgia. The impacts of climate change and environmental deterioration are becoming more and more evident, and occurrences of individuals being displaced from their homes because of severe or gradual climate phenomena (such as floods, wildfires, progressive environmental deterioration, etc.) are progressively more frequent. Therefore, to maintain a comprehensive approach and recognise the significance of various theories, concepts, and perspectives, we encourage submissions that make contributions to the fields of political ecology, ecofeminism, ecological masculinities, and agrarian masculinities, in both the global South and the global North.

Reference:
Albrecht, G. (2005). 'Solastalgia';. A new concept in health and identity. PAN: philosophy activism
nature, (3), 41-55.