Environmental JusticePapers

Gonda uses climate adaptation in Nicaragua to show how feminist political ecology can return power, emotion, subjectivity, and politics to gender and climate policy.

Greta Gaard revisits ecofeminism’s contested history, distinguishing necessary critiques of gender essentialism from the wholesale dismissal of a tradition that linked gender, race, class, colonialism, species and environmental justice.

Sherilyn MacGregor argues that climate research cannot be gender-neutral: its framing, everyday effects, and policy responses all require feminist social analysis.

Andrea J. Nightingale examines how gender is made through forestry labor, ecological rules, and unequal authority in a community-forestry case from western Nepal.

Bina Agarwal grounds gender and environmental politics in rural India's unequal access to land, forests, water, labor, and decision-making - rather than an assumed female affinity with nature.