Description
Gender and climate justice have become key norms in world politics with an increasing number of actors, including states, international institutions and civil society, pushing for a more radical politics that takes account of such normative shifts. For example, a number of countries recently have adopted feminist platforms for their foreign policy conduct as well as their international security engagements, while others have become known for their climate activism and push for environmental sustainability. The enactment of climate justice and feminist values, broadly defined, offers many opportunities to transform the power relations and gendered dynamics of world politics. Yet, world politics is a complex space where a range of ideas co-exist and compete, at times, disabling systemic transformative change from taking place – there are many gendered silences in global environmental politics, not least women’s climate (in)security. Meanwhile, a range of (neo)liberal ideas tend to prevail within the UN Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda and individual states’ efforts to conduct feminist foreign policies. This panel identifies such inconsistencies with emphasis on climate change the WPS agenda and FFP and doing so across a range of national and international contexts, though all with an ambition to identify the gendered logics of some of the most pressing issues in contemporary world politics.
