Women's Studies 2220E Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, Hurricane Mitch, Feminist Theory
19 Jan 2017
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Feminist approach to climate change governance: every day and intimate politics. Neoliberalism and how climate change profits off the suffering of women. Emphasizes that feminist theory talks about those on the margins. Marginalization"s - it"s hard to introduce feminist theoretical thinking to climate change because it"s not seen as credible - way governments take it up is very gendered. Big arguments: through ethical consumption we can change climate change and the onus is shifted to citizens. Canadians pledges by 2030 to cut emissions by 30% from 2005 levels. Try to save forests and leave fossil fuels in the ground. She challenges this through saying that this idea is very privileged, not everyone can get hybrid cars, turning lights off, policies impact differently situated people differently. Idea that relations of power and choices we are told we need to make are embedded in notions of power.
