Gender, Race, Class and the Manthropocene: Justice for whom?
Language: English
Gender, Race, Class and the Manthropocene: Justice for whom?
Our proposal is to promote an intersectional conversation that puts into perspective recent production of knowledge in the disputed field between feminist theories and theories of the Anthropocene throwing light on environmental activism, which intersects with wider gender-rights campaigns, including reproductive rights and health, autonomy and equality, representation and participation, struggles against class oppression and racism, and feminist critiques of militarisation, and colonialism.
Marlise Matos (RC32 Women, Gender and Society) will trigger the integrative session debate by asking the question: Is it better to talk about a Manthropocene as a way of highlighting that not all human beings are equally responsible for the serious consequences of the civilizational collapse that we are experiencing?
Speakers from RC24 Environment and Society (Jo Lindsay), and RC05 Racism, Nationalism, Indigeneity and Ethnicity (Kalpana Kannabiran) will be invited to respond building an intersectional perspective exploring the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, class and the environment in the understanding of ongoing inequalities in the Anthropocene and also exploring the ways social movements and social policies address or should address and promote social change and social justice.