Women's Knowledge and Justice in the Anthropocene: Intersections and Implications in the Polycrisis

Friday, 11 July 2025: 15:00-16:45
Location: SJES019 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
TG04 Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty (host committee)

Language: English

Climate change is the challenge of our times. It is not only a challenge as such, but it also causes and reinforces several other crises, such as a food crisis, a water crisis, a health crisis, a migration crisis. In our societies, women are affected in a disproportionate manner by the climate crisis, and the resulting polycrisis. They take on the main responsibilities to provide shelter and feed their families, and to provide health care for their beloved ones.

Yet the societal structures often fail to give a voice to women. They are factually responsible for handling these crises through their knowledge and experience, yet underrepresented in formal knowledge-sharing, which results in the loss for the knowledge extremely relevant for tackling with polycrisis. This is also a problem from the point of view of societal justice.

The aim of this session is to look at the question, of how women’s knowledge and forms of knowing can be better used to address the problems coming with the Anthropocene and at the same time improve societal justice. We will address this question from an interdisciplinary perspective, and adopting a comparative approach by looking to how societies in Africa and EU are tackling with these new challenges. This session will benefit from contributions focusing on case studies; on experiences of interventions promoted by women’s organizations and NGOs; on policy choices driven by women in governmental roles; on methodologies and tools to develop new forms of knowing (formal and informal) to speak-out women voice.

Session Organizer:
Fiorenza DERIU, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Co-Chair:
Fadma FADMA AIT MOUS, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco
Panelist:
Ruth ANYANGO AURA, Egerton University, Kenya
Discussant:
Zagel GUDRUN MONIKA, Paris Lodron Universitat Salzsburg, Germany
Oral Presentations
Policrisis: How Can Feminist Thought Illuminate Paths through Complexity?
Maria Lucia PIGA, University of Sassari, Italy; Patrizia DESOLE, Associazione Prospettiva Donna Olbia with University of Sassari, Italy
Modern Slavery and Social Protection in Northern Ghana: A Decolonised Perspective
John OTI AMOAH, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Women's Adaptive Strategies in the Margins: Coping with Uncertainty in Casablanca’s Socio-Spatial Housing
Hafsa RIFKI, Japan
Childbearing in the Context of Personal Life Planing and Gender Role Change
Dovile GALDAUSKAITE, Vilnius University, Lithuania
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