A Climate for Feminist Intervention: Feminist Science Studies and Climate Change

Israel, Andrei L.; Sachs, Carolyn

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-5518-5_3

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“…Secondly, as suggested by critical and post-colonial feminist scholars exploring climate change and the future of human-nature relations, current scenarios and modelling approaches adopted to represent the future of global change impacts on the environment and society conjure an apolitical vision of science (MacGregor, 2009;Israel and Sachs, 2013). These approaches reaffirm the general credibility and authority of positivist western science, while excluding other voices -especially marginalized voices such as women's or indigenous voices -which may have different and relevant knowledges, representations or worldviews and solutions (Díaz et al, 2018).…”

Section: Key Challenges Associated With Scenario-based Futures Thinkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Building capacities for transformative change towards sustainability: Imagination in Intergovernmental Science-Policy Scenario Processes

Pereira

Sitas

Ravera

et al. 2019

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene

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Scenario development has been recognized as a potential method to explore future change and stimulate a reflective process that can contribute to more informed decision-making. The assessment process under IPBES (the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) has however shown that the current predominantly biophysical and economic models and scenario processes for exploring the future of biodiversity, ecosystem services and their contributions to human wellbeing are insufficient to capture the complexity and context-specific nature of the problems facing these sectors. Several important challenges have been identified that require a more in-depth analysis of where more imaginative scenario efforts can be undertaken to address this gap. In this paper, we identify six key characteristics necessary for scenario processes: adaptability across diverse contexts, inclusion of diverse knowledge and value systems, legitimate stakeholder engagement that foregrounds the role of power and politics, an ability to grapple with uncertainty, individual and collective thinking mechanisms and relevance to policy making. We compared four cases of imaginative, arts-based scenario processes that each offer aspects of meeting these criteria. These approaches emphasise the importance of engaging the imagination of those involved in a process and harnessing it as a tool for identifying and conceptualising more transformative future trajectories. Drawing on the existing literature, we argue that there is value in fostering more inclusive and creative participatory processes that acknowledge the importance of understanding multiple value systems and relationships in order to reimagine a more inclusive and just future. Based on this, we reflect on future research to understand the transformative role that imagination can play in altering and enhancing knowledge-making for global assessments, including IPBES. We conclude that creative scenario co-development processes that promote imagination and create an opening for more empathetic responses should be considered as complementary tools within the suite of methodologies used for future IPBES scenario development.

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Section: Key Challenges Associated With Scenario-based Futures Thinkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Building capacities for transformative change towards sustainability: Imagination in Intergovernmental Science-Policy Scenario Processes

Pereira

Sitas

Ravera

et al. 2019

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene

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“…Applying this to climate politics, Israel and Sachs (2013) suggest that "rethinking (but certainly not dismissing) the climate science that grounds concerns about global climate creates space for new ways of thinking about climate change and for new forms of activism" (34, emphasis in the original). This does not mean, however, that all Knowing Climate Change, Embodying Climate Praxis claims about climate change are equally true.…”

Section: Repoliticization Through Antihierarchical Knowledge Productionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Knowing Climate Change, Embodying Climate Praxis: Experiential Knowledge in Southern Appalachia

Rice

Burke

Heynen

2015

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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“…Numerous scholars drawing on feminist and postcolonial traditions have critiqued the narrow, Western‐based, and normative understanding of what constitutes climate knowledge. Israel and Sachs () mobilize Donna Haraway's notion of the “god trick” to describe how mainstream climate science often makes claims to providing an objective (and therefore authoritative) view, “seeing everything from nowhere” (Haraway, , p. 581). As a major actor in the production of climate knowledge, influential in shaping both policy and public discourse, the IPCC has been critiqued for its “techno‐scientific approach” (Israel & Sachs, , p. 37) that privileges an “economic and econometric approach” (Roscoe, , p. 655) while marginalizing social science perspectives (Victor, ) and other understandings of climate.…”

Section: Geographers' Contributions To Climate Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Acknowledging that: “What counts as ‘evidence’ and what passes for ‘relevant knowledge’ are necessarily relative to the diverse and debatable values and goals that different societies hold dear” (Castree, , p. 65), research has emphasized that climate change has multiple meanings for different communities and places (Castree, ; Hulme, ; Rice, Burke, & Heynen, ). Drawing on Haraway's ideas of “feminine objectivity” (an understanding of knowledge as limited and situated), Israel and Sachs () call for revaluation of the local environmental knowledge possessed by women, people of color, and people of the global South. Carey, Jackson, Antonello, and Rushing () argue that attending to “folk glaciology” (p. 781)—alternative “ways of knowing” glaciers and cryoscapes, including local, Indigenous, and non‐western knowledge—would disrupt the overt focus on Western science, producing more equitable research and, by extension, more just futures.…”

Section: Geographers' Contributions To Climate Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Bridging the divide between human and physical geography: Potential avenues for collaborative research on climate modeling

Colven

Thomson

2018

Geography Compass

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Despite repeated calls for greater collaboration between physical and human geographers, the unique interdisciplinary potential of geography remains largely underutilized. Yet geographers are well positioned to take a leading role in the interdisciplinary turn in climate‐related research. This paper explores the possibilities for physical and human geographers to collaborate within and beyond the discipline, specifically on the topic of climate modeling. We first examine geographical research critically examining the production and circulation of climate knowledge. Drawing on insights from a recent literature called “Critical Physical Geography,” we then outline how geographers might engage in collaborative and interdisciplinary work in order to promote more democratic practices of producing climate knowledge, enrich understandings of climate change, and more effectively serve goals of social and environmental justice. We argue that both the discipline of geography and the field of climate research stand to gain enormously from geographers' efforts to talk across the divide between social and natural science within and beyond the boundaries of geography.

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A Climate for Feminist Intervention: Feminist Science Studies and Climate Change

Cited by 30 publications

References 28 publications

Building capacities for transformative change towards sustainability: Imagination in Intergovernmental Science-Policy Scenario Processes

Building capacities for transformative change towards sustainability: Imagination in Intergovernmental Science-Policy Scenario Processes

Knowing Climate Change, Embodying Climate Praxis: Experiential Knowledge in Southern Appalachia

Bridging the divide between human and physical geography: Potential avenues for collaborative research on climate modeling

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