DESCRIPTION
Conventional legal approaches to climate adaptation are often characterized based on technocratic and reductionist planning strategies that fail to account for the gendered experiences and knowledge of women. Annick’s analysis reveals, in line with global tendencies, that technocratic, masculinity and top-down approaches to climate adaptation have been prioritized over knowledge and approaches from diverse feminist, Indigenous and queer, and broader social science perspectives. She suggests three principles to advance a critical feminist reconceptualization of climate adaptation: (1) centering relationality and care; (2) putting equity and justice in context; and (3) acknowledging diverse agency and knowledge production. These principles present a possible new path towards more diverse climate adaptation based on alternative understandings of human-environment relationships and reciprocal ethics of care.
Speaker: Annick Masselot; University of Canterbury, Faculty of Law
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