About the event
As the climate emergency intensifies, the grip of fossil fuel and techno-feudalism tightens, inequality deepens, and populist right-wing governments expand. The world needs a very different kind of leadership at all levels. This leadership must be reflected in policies and practices that prioritise the most disadvantaged people and other-than-human nature. In the rare instances of feminist leadership at national and city levels, noticeable shifts have occurred. This should not be surprising, given the long legacy of women’s involvement in community action.
This event explores what feminist approaches can achieve in different contexts. Its starting point is the new book Feminist Climate Policy in Industrialised States: A Gender-Just Climate Emergency Response. While setting out the increasingly daunting scale of the climate crisis, the event will draw on examples from NGOs, trade unions, urban planning and construction, and politics to review approaches that have emerged from feminist practice to address the emergency we face. Together, we will imagine what a gender-just climate emergency response might look like.
Please join us for an afternoon of expert contributions and discussion, followed by networking and drinks. The panel will be introduced by two of the book’s co-editors, Susan Buckingham and Gunnhildur Magnúsdóttir, and will include Baroness Natalie Bennett (Member of the House of Lords, The Green Party), Professor Karen Morrow (Hilary Rodham Clinton Professor of Environmental Law at Swansea University and book co-editor), and representatives from the Women’s Environmental Network (WEN), Black Lives Matter, UNISON, and the NEU.
For further details, please contact Rosa Schiano-Phan or Susan Buckingham.
Location
Orla Gough Lecture Theatre, Marylebone Campus ,35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS
