scholarly journals The Socio-Political Construction of Climate Change: Looking for Paths to Sustainability and Gender Justice

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 3382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ericka Fosado Centeno
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Environmental Relations

With the purpose of getting to know the cultural and socio-political mechanisms that shape the climate agenda, this study follows a discourse analysis method and a gender perspective, for which an analytical basis is proposed to identify the cognitive, normative, and symbolic components that give meaning and substance to climate policy. Examining the productions of international organizations responsible for generating climate policy, a corpus consisting of 47 documents (reports, communications, programs, and legal framework) was analyzed, spanning from 1994 to 2015, to identify the trend of climate agenda prior to the Paris Agreement. The results indicate that the terms in which climate change is placed as a public issue contribute to reproducing a social order based on an anthropocentric, utilitarian, virtualized, and mercantilist vision of socio-environmental relations. Control mechanisms of peripheral countries and groups whose rights have been breached by discriminatory practices can emerge in this process, with women being especially affected. Based on empirical findings that follow the first two decades of climate policy, the logic underlying the climate discourse is shown, and the challenges it poses to reach more fair and sustainable agreements are discussed. Finally, some proposals are outlined to help guide the climate agenda in that direction.

scholarly journals Towards an African ecogender theology: A decolonial theological perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chammah J Kaunda
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
African Christianity ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Relational Solidarity

The struggles for environmental and gender justice have challenged how theology is done in Africa. This article framed within the context of continuous search for life-giving African Christianity, argues that a radical relational solidarity that existed between African humanity and environment in some Zambian traditional societies was grounded on ecogender principle. Thus, it seeks to probe deeper into contemporary challenge of African men’s alienation from environment as a consequence of colonial quest to restructure African social order. Employing decolonial theological perspective, the article tried to reinterpret some life-giving elements from Bemba and Shila cultural heritage in order to re-conceptualize contemporary African Christian ecotheology. It is from this perspective where African ecogender theology is constructed towards transformation of African human and environment relationship.

WPS and the International Criminal Court

2018 ◽  
pp. 350-363
Author(s):  
Jonneke Koomen
Keyword(s):  
International Criminal Court ◽  
Rome Statute ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
National Implementation ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

The International Criminal Court began its work in 2003. The Court’s founding treaty, the Rome Statute (1998), offers an unprecedented legal framework dedicated to ending impunity for sexual and gender-based violence in armed conflict. This chapter examines how the Rome Statute contributes to the Women, Peace, and Security agenda, paying particular attention to the Statute’s definitions of crimes, gender-sensitive rules, commitment to gender expertise, provisions for victim participation and reparations, and its framework for national implementation. Next, the chapter examines the difficulties faced by the Court in institutionalizing the Statute’s gender justice commitments during the first decade of its work, including challenges surrounding the prosecutor’s investigations, charging decisions, and the ICC’s first trials. The chapter points to efforts to strengthen the Court’s gender justice framework and notes the key role of advocates and NGOs in monitoring the Court’s gender justice commitments. The chapter’s concludes by considering ways that WPS advocates can support the Court’s work in challenging international political circumstances.

scholarly journals Tackling climate change and gender justice – integral; not optional

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-230
Author(s):  
Karen Morrow ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Climate Governance ◽  
Form Part ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

This paper examines the relationship between gender justice and climate change, arguing that, to meaningfully address the issues that arise in this context, it is imperative to engage not only with matters of principle, but also with the practicalities of gender exclusion in respect of climate change itself and the praxis of global climate governance. The discussion briefly considers key gendered societal and scientific contexts that form part of the complex substrate that situates climate change in reality, academic and political debate, and which ground and shape the global climate change regime. These considerations explain why, while there is now a systemic acknowledgment of the need to act on gender issues in principle in the UNFCCC regime, the effectiveness of recently adopted strategies is not a given, and more profoundly, it behoves us to consider how their efficacy might be improved as we seek to mature global climate governance.

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