Climate change is not equal to all: The contribution of feminist studies to climate change research

Authors

  • Marta Rivera-Ferre INGENIO (CSIC-UPV), Valencia (Spain).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.12.20508

Keywords:

climate change adaptation, maladaptation, feminist research, intersectionality, contextual vulnerability

Abstract

The impacts of climate change on people are not homogeneous, with some social groups being more heavily affected than others. This is due to the existence of a differential and contextual vulnerability that most often is related to inequality. In this sense, gender is a key axis of social inequality that intersects with other systems of power and marginalization to cause unequal experiences of climate change vulnerability and adaptive capacity. Thus, a gender analysis in climate change research examines structures and relationships of power. In this article, I provide some examples of differential impacts of climate change and how feminist studies make visible the underlying causes of vulnerability as well as the agency of marginalised actors to propose alternatives.

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Author Biography

Marta Rivera-Ferre, INGENIO (CSIC-UPV), Valencia (Spain).

Research Professor at INGENIO (CSIC-UPV), Valencia (Spain). She has been the director of the Chair of Agroecology and Food Systems (UVic-UCC) between 2014 and 2021. Her research experience has given her a multidisciplinary profile in the analysis of agri-food systems. In recent years she has focused on the sociology of agriculture and food, and particularly on the interactions between agriculture, food, society, and the environment, with an emphasis on climate change adaptation and food security and sovereignty, as well as on the social function of agriculture and the role of women from a feminist studies perspective. 

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2022-02-02

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Rivera-Ferre, M. (2022). Climate change is not equal to all: The contribution of feminist studies to climate change research. Metode Science Studies Journal, (12), 131–135. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.12.20508
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