Feminist Participatory Action Research as a tool for climate justice

Godden, Naomi Joy; Macnish, Pam; Chakma, Trimita; Naidu, Kavita

doi:10.1080/13552074.2020.1842040

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“…We also identify that methodologies such as Aboriginal Elder‐ and community‐led participatory action research (PAR) 17 , 24 offer opportunities to conduct climate change research and action in collaboration with Aboriginal and non‐Aboriginal young people. Through PAR, young people can develop and implement research questions, methods, actions, and interventions; a best practice approach.…”

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Climate change, activism, and supporting the mental health of children and young people: Perspectives from Western Australia

Godden

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et al. 2021

J Paediatrics Child Health

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The climate crisis has detrimental impacts on the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people. Psychological effects include feelings of fear, overwhelm, worry, distress, hopelessness and anger; PTSD; depression; anxiety; phobias; panic disorder; sleep disturbances; attachment disorders; learning difficulties; substance abuse; shock and trauma symptoms; adjustment problems; behavioural problems; and, suicidal thinking. First Nations' children and young people are particularly at risk due to loss of place, identity, culture, land and customs informed by kinship relationships with the Earth; while sustainable land use practices and connection to Country and community can enhance climate resilience. In Western Australia (WA), some young people engage in climate activism – including striking from school – to demand government action to address the causes of climate change, including colonisation and capitalism. Climate activism can promote resilience, particularly when children and young people can emotionally engage in the climate crisis; when mental health is systemically supported; when climate communication is transparent and comprehensive; and, when activism is informed by the knowledges and wisdoms of First Nations peoples and grounded on Country. This article is co‐authored by WA young people, Aboriginal and non‐Aboriginal academics, activists and practitioners engaged in youth, mental health and climate justice spaces. We argue for structural change to address the causes of the climate crisis, alongside enhanced evidence and approaches to appropriately support the mental health of children and young people. Furthermore, we support the call of Aboriginal peoples to ensure culturally appropriate, place‐based responses based in caring for Country.

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Climate change, activism, and supporting the mental health of children and young people: Perspectives from Western Australia

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“…Greater engagement with intersectionality is not simply an academic exercise; it is integral to just and inclusive adaptation (Godden et al., 2020). A growing number of studies attest that maladaptation results when climate adaptation projects fail to account for multiple subjectivities (Sovacool, 2018; Tabe, 2019).…”

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Indigenous climate change adaptation: New directions for emerging scholarship

Johnson

Parsons

Fisher

2021

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Although Indigenous peoples’ perspectives and concerns have not always been accommodated in climate change adaptation research and practice, a burgeoning literature is helping to reframe and decolonise climate adaptation in line with Indigenous peoples’ lived experiences. In this review, we bring together climate adaptation, decolonising and intersectional scholarship to chart the progress that has been made in better analysing and responding to climate change in Indigenous contexts. We identify a wealth of literature helping to decolonise climate adaptation scholarship and praxis by attending to colonial and neo-colonial injustices implicated in Indigenous peoples’ climate vulnerability, taking seriously Indigenous peoples’ relational ontologies, and promoting adaptation that draws on Indigenous capacities and aspirations for self-determination and cultural continuity. Despite calls to interrogate heterogenous experiences of climate change within Indigenous communities, the decolonising climate and adaptation scholarship has made limited advances in this area. We examine the small body of research that takes an intersectional approach to climate adaptation and explores how the multiple subjectivities and identities that Indigenous peoples occupy produce unique vulnerabilities, capacities and encounters with adaptation policy. We suggest the field might be expanded by drawing on related studies from Indigenous development, natural resource management, conservation, feminism, health and food sovereignty. Greater engagement with intersectionality works to drive innovation in decolonising climate adaptation scholarship and practice. It can mitigate the risk of maladaptation, avoid entrenchment of inequitable power dynamics, and ensures that even the most marginal groups within Indigenous communities benefit from adaptation policies and programmes.

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“…It can strengthen women’s strategic activism, advocacy, capacity building, and resource and network access (Dankelman & Naidu, 2020). It also documents women’s lived experiences and elevates differing voices (Godden et al, 2020), as well as how international political economy of development can derail gender justice in climate action (Fresnillo Sallan, 2020). Spatial intersectionality across the global North and South, and scalar intersections of race and Indigeneity, are essential aspects of feminist climate justice.…”

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Critical climate justice

Sultana

2021

Geographical Journal

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Climate change has had unequal and uneven burdens across places whereby the planetary crisis involves a common but differentiated responsibility. The injustices of intensifying climate breakdown have laid bare the fault lines of suffering across sites and scales. A climate justice framework helps us to think about and address these inequities. Climate justice fundamentally is about paying attention to how climate change impacts people differently, unevenly, and disproportionately, as well as redressing the resultant injustices in fair and equitable ways. Critical climate justice as a praxis of solidarity and collective action benefits from greater engagement with intersectional and international feminist scholarship. Incorporating insights from feminist climate justice bolsters solidarity praxis while enriching and reframing dominant climate change discussions for more impactful and accountable action.

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Feminist Participatory Action Research as a tool for climate justice

Cited by 28 publications

References 15 publications

Climate change, activism, and supporting the mental health of children and young people: Perspectives from Western Australia

Climate change, activism, and supporting the mental health of children and young people: Perspectives from Western Australia

Indigenous climate change adaptation: New directions for emerging scholarship

Critical climate justice

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