CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Vigil Escalera Mier, Laura |
|---|---|
| Title | Feminist Action For Climate Justice: coloniality of gender-nature on the Generation Equality Forum |
| Summary | This study takes a decolonial approach to analyze the discourse generated by the Generation Equality Forum, which aims to address gender inequality, having as one of its principal axis climate justice. The forum was launched in 2021 in Mexico and France, during the Covid-19 crisis, as an effort to address gender inequality by continuing the agreements of the Beijing Declaration and embedding them in the Sustainable Development Goals. The forum poses itself as innovative for the integration of a variety of stakeholders and organizations, ranging from civil society, governments, philanthropies, and the private sector. In this sense, this research analyzes how the forum’s discourses and the groups present are constitutive of power relations, resulting in the coloniality of power, coloniality of gender, and coloniality of nature. The findings indicate that despite the forum's overarching mission of achieving gender equality and climate justice, its primary actors are private companies that perpetuate the logic of capital accumulation through cheap labor and natural resource exploitation. Furthermore, the forum's conceptualization of the relationship between gender equality and environmental justice relies on instrumentalist discourses that primarily focus on women as subjects of vulnerability. In this sense, this research uses a decolonial feminist approach to expose how the relationship between the subordination of gender and nature stems from colonialism and the now-called colonial system, where the subordination of one cannot exist without the subordination of the other; what this study calls the coloniality of gender-nature. In conclusion, we have that addressing gender inequality and the environmental catastrophe requires addressing problems at their root and from the margins, an aspect the forum does not have. |
| Supervisor | Sachseder, Julia Carolin |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/vigil-escalera_laura.pdf |
Visit the CEU Library.
© 2007-2021, Central European University