Introduction - Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice: Gender Equality, Climate Change and Rights

Albertyn, Catherine; García, Helena Alviar; Campbell, Meghan C.; Freeman, Sandra K.; Machado, Marta Rodriguez de Assis

doi:10.4337/9781803923796.00005

“…Arora-Jonsson (2011) argues that this focus on women's vulnerability to climate change impacts and emphasis on women's virtuousness in protecting their families from environmental harms can have the consequence of deflecting attention from power relations in institutions at all levels. More recent work on feminist climate justice links centers feminist principles at the core of climate justice (Terry, 2009;Cochrane, 2014;Albertyn, 2023). The climate activist phrase "no climate justice without gender justice" represents the centrality of feminism in climate justice (Terry, 2009).…”

Section: Gender Climate Change and Energymentioning

confidence: 99%

The dangers of masculine technological optimism: Why feminist, antiracist values are essential for social justice, economic justice, and climate justice

Stephens

2024

Environmental Values

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Responding to the climate crisis requires social and economic innovation—because climate change is a symptom of patriarchal capitalist systems that are concentrating—rather than distributing—wealth and power. Despite the need for social and economic innovation, technological innovation continues to be prioritized in climate policy and climate investments. This paper reviews the dangers of technological optimism in climate policy by exploring its links to patriarchal systems and masculinity. The disproportionate focus on science and technology emerges from and reinforces “climate isolationism,” a term that I use to refer to the common framing of climate change as an isolated discrete, scientific problem in need of technological solutions. This framing stems from assumptions of patriarchal white-male conceptions of privilege and power that evolve from a colonizing and controlling mindset. Masculine technological optimism is dangerous because it is exclusive, it minimizes the need for social change and social innovation, and it is ineffective in catalyzing inclusive societal transformation. This paper argues that embracing feminist, antiracist values is necessary for transformative climate policies, economic justice, and climate justice.

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“…It is about the unfair effects of climate change, which affect girls and women often more severely than men. This is especially true in those situations where women, traditionally associated with caring for the household and taking care of the family, are required to procure and prepare food, obtain increasingly difficult to access water, and are often forced to abandon their education (Atrey, 2023). Finally, women around the world are experiencing misogynist and sexist abuse and harassment, which is being intensified through the Internet (Ging & Siapera, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

Animal welfare science, performance metrics, and proxy failure

Browning,

Veit

2024

Behav Brain Sci

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“…It is about the unfair effects of climate change, which affect girls and women often more severely than men. This is especially true in those situations where women, traditionally associated with caring for the household and taking care of the family, are required to procure and prepare food, obtain increasingly difficult to access water, and are often forced to abandon their education (Atrey, 2023). Finally, women around the world are experiencing misogynist and sexist abuse and harassment, which is being intensified through the Internet (Ging & Siapera, 2019).…”

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The determinants of proxy treadmilling in evolutionary models of reliable signals

Harris

2024

Behav Brain Sci

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Identifying the conditions of proxy treadmilling is crucial for determining whether reliable signals can persist over time. I present a framework that maps evolutionary models of reliable signals according to their assumptions regarding the effects of Goodhart's law. This framework can explain the contrasting outcomes of different modelling approaches, and identify in which models proxy treadmilling is expected to occur.

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Introduction - Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice: Gender Equality, Climate Change and Rights

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The dangers of masculine technological optimism: Why feminist, antiracist values are essential for social justice, economic justice, and climate justice

The dangers of masculine technological optimism: Why feminist, antiracist values are essential for social justice, economic justice, and climate justice

Animal welfare science, performance metrics, and proxy failure

The determinants of proxy treadmilling in evolutionary models of reliable signals

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