Mainstreaming Gender in Global Climate Governance

Name: Mainstreaming Gender in Global Climate Governance | Women and Gender Constituency in the UNFCCC
Author: Joanna Flavell
ISBN: 978-1-000-81414-9

Women and Gender Constituency in the UNFCCC

Joanna Flavell(Autor*in)

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Erschienen am 27. Februar 2023

198 Seiten

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Beschreibung

This book explores the role of feminist activists in The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and highlights the progress they have made in mainstreaming gender as a key issue in global climate governance.

It is now commonplace for gender to be framed as a political issue in global climate politics within academic scholarship, but there is typically a lack of robust empirical analysis of existing advocacy approaches. Filling this lacuna, Joanna Flavell interrogates the political strategies of the Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) in the UNFCCC (The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change). Through a conceptual framework that integrates climate change with intersectional critical inquiry and political practice, Flavell analyses hundreds of historical documents, coupled with interviews and observations from two UNFCCC conferences. This research uncovers a so-far untold story about the history of the UNFCCC that foregrounds gender and feminist advocacy, highlighting the importance of the WGC in shaping dominant narratives of global climate governance through a series of rhetorical and procedural strategies. Overall, the book draws important conclusions around power in global climate governance and opens up new avenues for advancing a feminist green politics.

This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental justice, climate politics and governance, environmental activism, and gender studies more broadly.

An electronic version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched (KU). KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high quality books Open Access for the public good. The Open Access ISBN for this book is 9781003306474. More information about the initiative
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Inhalt

Table of Contents

List of Acronyms

List of Tables

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

1 - Introduction

Why 'Gender and Climate Change'?

The UNFCCC as a Site of Inquiry

Overview of the Book

2 - Enduring Debates in Feminist Climate Praxis

Theorising Feminist Climate Activism

Enduring Debates

Dilemmas of Rhetorical Strategy

Radical Outsiders versus Pragmatic Insiders

Questions of Power Dynamics and Hierarchies

The Activist - Academic Divide

Conclusion

3 - Ecofeminist Intersectionality: Inquiry and Praxis

Ecofeminist Intersectionality as Critical Inquiry

Social Inequalities

Intersecting power relations

Contextuality

Relationality

Complexity

Ecological Justice

Transversal Politics as Ecofeminist Intersectional Praxis

Solidarity Politics

Epistemic Communities

Flexible Dialogue

Conclusion

4 - From Zero Gender to GAP: Foregrounding gender in UNFCCC history

Phase 1: Zero Gender -1992 - 2007

Early Days: 1992 - 2002

Getting Organised: 2003 - 2005

Gaining Momentum: 2006 - 2007

Phase two: Mainstreaming Gender into the UNFCCC - 2007 - 2013

Getting Noticed: 2007 - 2009

Feminist Leadership: 2010 - 2013

Phase 3: Gender Action Plan - 2014 - 2021

Towards Implementation: 2014 - 2015

Extending the Lima Work Programme on Gender: 2016

The Gender Action Plan: 2017 - 2021

Conclusion

5 - Political Strategies Mobilised by the Women and Gender Constituency

Rhetorical Strategies

Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women

Universalising lived experience

Equating Gender with Women

Intersectionality in Baby Steps

Procedural Strategies

Identifying entry points for gender aspects into the climate change debate

Raising awareness and disseminating information

Building women's capacity and joint strategizing

Developing a future research agenda

Conclusion

6 - Lessons for Ecofeminist Intersectional Praxis

Lessons from the WGC for Intersectional Inquiry and Praxis

Lesson One: There are No Easy Solutions

Lesson Two: Prevalent domains of power have hindered intersectional praxis in the UNFCCC

Lesson Three: Intersectional inquiry and practice cannot be separated

Towards an Ecofeminist Transversal Politics

Option One: Fold and Withdraw

Option Two: 'Business as Usual'

Option Three: Ecofeminist Transversal Politics

Conclusion

7 - Conclusion: New Directions for Ecofeminist Intersectional Praxis

Original Contributions

Coda

Appendix 1 - Methodology

Introduction

Collecting Data: Gathering Data, Conducting Interviews and Observation

Gathering Data

Elite Interviews

Direct Observation

Interpretation and Analysis of Documents

Internal Validity and Limitations of the Research

Bibliography

Index

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