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In this article we examine the future of human rights by looking at how ‘authoritarianism’, in its multifaceted forms and manifestations, intersects with existing discourses on climate change, environmental protection, populism and ‘gender deviance’. By adopting an intersectional lens, we interrogate the emergence of the right to a healthy environment and reflect on whether it will help against the double challenge faced by human rights: of climate breakdown and rising authoritarianism. We study the link between authoritarianism and populism, focusing on far-right populism and the creeping authoritarian features that we can associate with far-right groups, both movements and parties. We also consider how certain understandings of nature and the environment are put forward by authoritarian regimes. This leads us to consider so-called ‘ecologism’ and the ways in which far-right movements draw upon green thought on the natural environment to further a gendered agenda based on conceptions of nature as a ‘national treasure’. These conceptions, as we demonstrate, go hand in hand with policies that promote national identity and directly undermine the rights of migrants, ethnic minorities, women and LGBT+ groups. © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Le Réseau des Tables régionales de groupes de femmes du Québec est un regroupement provincial composé des 17 Tables régionales de groupes de femmes au Québec. Il s’agit d’un regroupement féministe de défense collective des droits, qui travaille sur les questions mettant en jeu les intérêts et les droits des femmes. La spécificité du regroupement est représentée par l’expertise régionale développée par les Tables régionales dans les dossiers de la condition féminine. Porte-voix des régions auprès des instances nationales, le RTRGFQ favorise la prise de parole collective des Tables régionales, tout en respectant leurs particularités. Le RTRGFQ et les Tables régionales sont en action depuis plus de 20 ans pour favoriser la participation des femmes à la vie démocratique québécoise

This study draws on nearly 2 years of field research in Central East Oakland, CA, to provide an ethnographic account of the daily experiences of poor, young, black women in urban space. Few scholars have explored the collective experiences of young women living in the inner-city and the innovative strategies they develop to navigate daily life in this setting. The accounts from young women in this study reveal the different types of formal and informal labor black women do to ensure survival in the inner-city and how they describe this daily work as the “grind.” The intersection of formal and informal labor that makes up the grind is reflected in three dimensions: the half-time hustle, underground entrepreneurship, and informal support networks. Like men in the neighborhood women must contend with underemployment, poverty and race and class isolation. I explain how black women are impacted in very specific ways by these key structural shifts and harsh structural conditions and must in turn manage constraining and contradictory gendered expectations while negotiating the grind. © 2020, © 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Le concept d’intersectionnalité défi­nit les points de ren­contre entre des luttes contre les domi­na­tions liées à la classe sociale, à la raci­sa­tion ou au genre. Il a per­mis réflexions et nou­veaux champs de bataille féconds. Acti­vistes et intellectuel·les pro­posent de conti­nuer à mul­ti­plier les hybri­da­tions entre ces com­bats sociaux, cultu­rels et poli­tiques avec les luttes envi­ron­ne­men­tales et cli­ma­tiques. Pre­nant... View Article

Starting with seminal work from Katherine McKittrick and Katherine McKittrick and the late Clyde Woods, this paper compares and contrasts articulations of justice as espoused by Black feminism, ecofeminism, and the movement for environmental justice. The utilization of an intersectional genealogical approach allows for examination of the ways in which these movements might serve as the ideological bases for a Black feminist spatial imagination and an intersectional environmental justice. A Black feminist spatial imagination is an orientation that accounts for the merger of frames around race, gender, and ecology; it serves as a unique departure from conventional Black feminist analysis by its particular attention to the construct of space in Black feminist epistemology. Analysis reveals that manifestos engage similar strategies around boundedness, an identification among a collective identity and the subject of reproductive justice and liberation as wresting control and self-determination of physical bodies. The final task is an outline of essential tenets for a singular notion of justice of a Black feminist spatial imagination which incorporates the spirit of all of three manifestos and expands current environmental justice discourse to include those ‘who know no one knows’ while highlighting Black women’s agency in environmentally degraded environments. © 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

The impacts of accelerating climate change across Canada are unequally distributed between populations and regions. Emerging evidence shows climate change and resultant policies to be worsening gendered social and economic inequities between women and men, with women’s participation largely absent in climate change research and decision-making. These dynamics are resulting in negative impacts for women’s well-being, with Indigenous and historically marginalized women at increased risk of experiencing health inequities as a result of climate change. To date, public health discourse has largely failed to incorporate gender as a key determinant of health in discussions of climate change impacts on populations. Paralleling this lack of development, the entangled relationship between climate and colonialism tends to be subsumed under the term “Aboriginality” within health determinants discourse. This commentary on gender and climate change in Canada is framed within a radical intersectional approach as an alternative course of public health analysis and action aimed at addressing resulting health and power inequities. Following an overview of evidence regarding the gendered impacts of climate change on women’s work, roles, agency, and well-being, several possible public health action areas on climate change and gender are highlighted as necessary components for resilient communities capable of meeting contemporary challenges.

"The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers, and debates in feminist philosophy. Fifty-six chapters, written by an international team of contributors specifically for the Companion, are organized into five sections: (1) Engaging the Past; (2) Mind, Body, and World; (3) Knowledge, Language, and Science; (4) Intersections; (5) Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics. The volume provides a mutually enriching representation of the several philosophical traditions that contribute to feminist philosophy. It also foregrounds issues of global concern and scope; shows how feminist theory meshes with rich theoretical approaches that start from transgender identities, race and ethnicity, sexuality, disabilities, and other axes of identity and oppression; and highlights the interdisciplinarity of feminist philosophy and the ways that it both critiques and contributes to the whole range of subfields within philosophy."--The publisher.

Based on the true stories of Indigenous women throughout the world, Deer Woman: An Anthology is an extension of the Deer Woman: A Vignette, comic book that itself is a powerful expression and weaves the stories of Deer Woman into a modern narrative of the struggles of Indigenous women in North America. This anthology features the work of more than a dozen Native women sharing stories of survival, empowerment, and healing. Edited by Elizabeth LaPensée and Weshoyot Alvitre and featuring the work of: Patty Stonefish, Allie Vasquez, Mia Casesa, Darcie Little Badger, Tara Ogaick, Kimberly Robertson, Barbara Kenmille, Maria Wolf Lopez, Tatum Bowie, Jackie Fawn, Rebecca Roanhorse, Carolyn Dunn, Nashoba Dunn-Anderson, and more, this anthology is an important addition to the current conversation about violence against women, especially Native women.-from publisher's website.

Glaciers are key icons of climate change and global environmental change. However, the relationships among gender, science, and glaciers – particularly related to epistemological questions about the production of glaciological knowledge – remain understudied. This paper thus proposes a feminist glaciology framework with four key components: 1) knowledge producers; (2) gendered science and knowledge; (3) systems of scientific domination; and (4) alternative representations of glaciers. Merging feminist postcolonial science studies and feminist political ecology, the feminist glaciology framework generates robust analysis of gender, power, and epistemologies in dynamic social-ecological systems, thereby leading to more just and equitable science and human-ice interactions.

Parmi les sujets absents du débat sur les impacts et les conséquences du Plan Nord se trouvent, invisibles, les femmes autochtones. Celles qui constituent plus de 50 % de la population autochtone dans le Nord sont les moins écoutées, les moins consultées, les plus vulnérables. La question est absente et il y a peu de données disponibles quant à l’impact des activités minières ou des chantiers hydroélectriques sur la condition des femmes. Or, l’expérience de Femmes autochtones du Québec révèle que ce type de développement a souvent des incidences négatives sur la situation des femmes autochtones dans les communautés en exacerbant les préjugés, les violences et les inégalités. Pour poser la réalité des femmes autochtones dans et hors réserve, il faut préciser qu’en 2001, les femmes autochtones enregistraient un taux de monoparentalité deux fois plus élevé que celui des femmes non autochtones (19 % contre 8 %). Les nombreuses familles dirigées par des femmes autochtones sont donc plus dépendantes de l’aide sociale que les hommes autochtones le sont.

As environmental justice concerns become more widely embedded in environmental organizations and policymaking, and increasingly the focus of academic study, the gender dimension dissolves into an exclusive focus on race/ethnicity and class/income. While grassroots campaigning activities were often dominated by women, in the more institutionalized activities of organizations dominated by salaried professionals, gender inequality is neglected as a vector of environmental injustice, and addressing this inequality is not considered a strategy for redress. This paper explores some of the reasons why this may be so, which include a lack of visibility of gendered environmental injustice; professional campaigning organizations which are themselves gender blind; institutions at a range of scales which are still structured by gender (as well as class and race) inequalities; and an intellectual academy which continues to marginalize the study of gender—and women's—inequality. The authors draw on experience of environmental activism, participant observation, and other qualitative research into the gendering of environmental activity, to first explore the constructions of scale to see how this might limit a gender-fair approach to environmental justice. Following this, the practice of “gender mainstreaming” in environmental organizations and institutions will be examined, demonstrating how this is limited in scope and fails to impact on the gendering of environmental injustice.

Le désordre urbain et les défis environnementaux que nous connaissons ne sont pas perçus ni vécus pareillement aux Suds et aux Nords, par les femmes et les hommes, par les puissants et les exclus. Les mouvements populaires urbains et de lutte pour l'environnement participent de la réflexion sur les changements de paradigme de développement qui sont urgents et nécessaires. La perspective de genre donne des clés de lecture pour comprendre comment les asymétries féminin-masculin structurent la perception et l’organisation concrète de la vie sociale. La forte présence des femmes dans les organisations urbaines et de lutte pour l’environnement est généralement peu ou pas reconnue. Ce livre explore certains mouvements populaires urbains, qui participent au travail de prise de conscience et de revendications de droits et qui permettent ainsi d'envisager des alternatives sur des territoires de vie, sans plus attendre.

Cet article, qui se situe dans l’ensemble des discours sur les droits des autochtones, explore de façon spécifique le sujet du rapport des femmes à la territorialité. En utilisant comme étude de cas les cultures wabanakies de la côte Est, l’auteure réexamine de manière critique les documents historiques pour analyser le rapport des femmes au « lieu » à travers leur relation à leur environnement et elle étudie comment le contexte de cette relation a été transformé par les processus de colonisation. Puisque ce texte s’insère dans le large champ des discours sur les droits autochtones, il soulève des questions importantes sur la position des femmes autochtones dans les processus actuels de reconnaissance des droits et des titres, non seulement comme participantes actuelles mais aussi comme acteurs historiques.

This exciting new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the contemporary state of the field. The editors’ introduction and forty-five essays cover feminist critical engagements with philosophy and adjacent scholarly fields, as well as feminist approaches to current debates and crises across the world. Authors cover topics ranging from the ways in which feminist philosophy attends to other systems of oppression, and the gendered, racialized, and classed assumptions embedded in philosophical concepts, to feminist perspectives on prominent subfields of philosophy. The first section contains chapters that explore feminist philosophical engagement with mainstream and marginalized histories and traditions, while the second section parses feminist philosophy’s contributions to with numerous philosophical subfields, for example metaphysics and bioethics. A third section explores what feminist philosophy can illuminate about crucial moral and political issues of identity, gender, the body, autonomy, prisons, among numerous others. The Handbook concludes with the field’s engagement with other theories and movements, including trans studies, queer theory, critical race, theory, postcolonial theory, and decolonial theory. The volume provides a rigorous but accessible resource for students and scholars who are interested in feminist philosophy, and how feminist philosophers situate their work in relation to the philosophical mainstream and other disciplines. Above all it aims to showcase the rich diversity of subject matter, approach, and method among feminist philosophers.

La charge mentale provoquée par le déséquilibre dans la distribution des tâches domestiques, tout comme les situations économiques précaires, vulnérabilise les Québécoises face aux changements climatiques. Paradoxalement, cela les positionne aussi au cœur de la solution. Comment permettre aux femmes de conserver ce pouvoir d’action sans exacerber les inégalités déjà existantes? Qu’est-ce que signifie « politiser le care »? On en parle avec Annie Rochette, docteure en droit environnemental, Laurie-Gagnon Bouchard du centre de recherche en immigration, ethnicité et citoyenneté de l’UQAM et Céline Hequet, chroniqueuse et doctorante en sociologie à l’Université McGill.