A Stranger Silence Still

Sherilyn MacGregor’s article names a major absence in climate change research: environmental science and policy debates were expanding rapidly, while feminist social research remained marginal. She argues that climate change cannot be understood only through carbon, technology, or governance; it must also be understood as a problem of gendered social relations.

The paper moves climate justice beyond the frame of “women as climate victims.” MacGregor examines everyday consumption, care labor, citizenship, political subjectivity, and knowledge production, warning against writing women only as vulnerable populations. The point is to ask how women are mobilized by policy, how they absorb adaptation costs, and how they participate in climate politics.

For FemRes, this text pairs well with feminist political ecology, environmental justice, care economy, and social movements. It gives the archive a theoretical anchor for later work on climate, disaster, energy transition, and ecofeminism.