Analyzing socio-ecological transformations – a relational approach to gender and climate adaptation

Hackfort, Sarah; Burchardt, Hans‐Jürgen

doi:10.1080/19460171.2016.1191363

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“…On the one hand, reformist approaches consider technological progress as a cornerstone for the sustainability transition, and are usually driven by dominant actors and their (hegemonic) interests. On the other hand, SET scholars foreground sustainable societal relations with nature, and focus on how social structures and power relations allow for, respectively, limit change (Görg et al., 2017; Hackfort & Burchardt, 2018). In this context, the necessary dialogue between North and South is also emphasized repeatedly (Acosta & Brand, 2018), making SET a relational concept.…”

Section: Operationalization Of Social–ecological Transformationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Framing social–ecological transformation as a geographical concept

Kister,

Dorn,

Hafner

2024

Geography Compass

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Global challenges call for timely social–ecological transformation. There is a substantial amount of literature on social–ecological transformation, increasingly replacing and going beyond ‘sustainability’. However, the concept itself is used very inconsistently. This paper aims at identifying and systematizing the strains of argumentation that encompass the social–ecological transformation. Adding German‐speaking literature to the Anglophone debate, we systematize as we follow the concept's genesis to its varieties of use within context‐based (spatial, temporal, and societal) disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary debates. Building on the various strands of contemporary use, this paper aims at contouring the epistemologies of the concept. Lastly, we illustrate the roles of geographical research approaches and the assigned methodology. We argue that the strands tend to drift apart and cannot be seen nor used as a singular uniform approach. We identify the key dimensions of how scholars use social–ecological transformation, unearthing underlying epistemologies. To conclude, we delineate key elements that geographical research on social–ecological transformation must address, laying the foundation for further scholarly debate.

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Section: Operationalization Of Social–ecological Transformationmentioning

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Framing social–ecological transformation as a geographical concept

Kister,

Dorn,

Hafner

2024

Geography Compass

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“…Instead of treating specific social groups as uniformly vulnerable to and/or capable of adapting to the impacts of climate change, emergent intersectional climate scholarship examines how peoples' subjectivities affect how they experience the world, including their vulnerability to climate hazards, and mediate their access to resources, knowledge, networks and other assets needed to adapt [74][75][76][77]. As Kaijser and Kronsell [78] (p. 421) observe, "from an intersectional understanding, how individuals relate to climate change depends on their positions in context-specific power structures based on social categorisations" that might emerge at the interstices of race, Indigeneity, gender and sexual identity, class, caste, socio-economic status (SES), occupation, and so on.…”

Section: Intersectionality Climate Adaptation and Vulnerabilitymentioning

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Diversifying Indigenous Vulnerability and Adaptation: An Intersectional Reading of Māori Women’s Experiences of Health, Wellbeing, and Climate Change

2022

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Despite evidence that Indigenous peoples’ multiple subjectivities engender diverse lived experiences both between and within Indigenous groups, the influence of multiple subjectivities on Indigenous peoples’ vulnerability and adaptation to climate change is largely un-explored. Drawing on ethnographic research with Indigenous Māori women in Aotearoa New Zealand, this paper provides empirical evidence that subjectivity-mediated power dynamics operating within Indigenous societies (at the individual and household scale) are important determinants of vulnerability and adaptation which should be considered in both scholarship and policy. Using an intersectional framework, I demonstrate how different Māori women and their whānau (families) live, cope with, and adapt to the embodied physical and emotional health effects of climate change in radically different ways because of their subject positionings, even though they belong to the same community, hapū (sub-tribe), or iwi (tribe). In underlining these heterogenous experiences, I provide an avenue for reconsidering how climate adaptation scholarship, policies, and practices might better engage with the complex, amorphous realities within Māori and other Indigenous communities. I argue it is possible to develop more inclusive, tailored, and sustainable adaptation that considers divergent vulnerabilities and adaptive capacities within Indigenous communities, groups, and societies and supports customised vulnerability-reduction strategies.

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“…While many women's empowerment metrics perpetuates the notion that gender is merely a property of atomized individuals, who are independent of other actors, contemporary gender theory sees gender as relational (Hackfort and Burchardt 2018;Jerneck 2018;Risman et al 2018;Leslie et al 2019). Gender gains meaning through social practices that structure hierarchies of gendered power in given contexts (Tavenner et al 2020).…”

Section: Ignoring How Localized Gender Power Relations In Agricultural Systems Shape the Meaning Of Empowermentmentioning

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Hitting the target and missing the point? On the risks of measuring women’s empowerment in agricultural development

Tavenner

Crane

2022

Agric Hum Values

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There is a strong impetus in international agricultural development to close ‘gender gaps’ in agricultural productivity. The goal of empowering women is often framed as the solution to closing these gaps, stimulating the proliferation of new indicators and instruments for the targeting, measurement, and tracking of programmatic goals in research for agricultural development. Despite these advances, current measurements and indices remain too simplified in terms of unit and scope of analysis, as well as being fundamentally flawed in how they aim to capture the relevance of ‘gender’ in diverse local contexts. We propose that the impulse to apply exogenously defined and weakly validated ‘women’s empowerment’ measures to diverse local contexts risks prioritizing practical expedience over scientific accuracy and societal relevance. Furthermore, the application of such measures risks creating the impression that programmatic “gender targets” are being achieved, while simultaneously undermining substantive gender transformative goals. The authors conclude that a different methodological approach grounded in participatory and qualitative methods is needed to create more meaningful metrics for assessing progress towards women’s empowerment.

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Analyzing socio-ecological transformations – a relational approach to gender and climate adaptation

Cited by 15 publications

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Framing social–ecological transformation as a geographical concept

Framing social–ecological transformation as a geographical concept

Diversifying Indigenous Vulnerability and Adaptation: An Intersectional Reading of Māori Women’s Experiences of Health, Wellbeing, and Climate Change

Hitting the target and missing the point? On the risks of measuring women’s empowerment in agricultural development

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