Djoudi, H. and Locatelli, B. and Vaast, C. and Asher, K. and etl, .
(2016)
Beyond dichotomies: Gender and intersecting inequalities
in climate change studies.
Ambio, 45 (3).
pp. 248-262.
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Abstract
Climate change and related adaptation strategies
have gender-differentiated impacts. This paper reviews
how gender is framed in 41 papers on climate change
adaptation through an intersectionality lens. The main
findings show that while intersectional analysis has
demonstrated many advantages for a comprehensive
study of gender, it has not yet entered the field of climate
change and gender. In climate change studies, gender is
mostly handled in a men-versus-women dichotomy and
little or no attention has been paid to power and social and
political relations. These gaps which are echoed in other
domains of development and gender research depict a
‘feminization of vulnerability’ and reinforce a
‘victimization’ discourse within climate change studies.
We argue that a critical intersectional assessment would
contribute to unveil agency and emancipatory pathways in
the adaptation process by providing a better understanding
of how the differential impacts of climate change shape,
and are shaped by, the complex power dynamics of existing
social and political relations.
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