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Lessons from the Women and Gender Constituency: Interrogating Civil Society Strategies for Organising in the UNFCCC
While scholarship on the topic of gender and the environment is steadily growing, little is known about the challenges faced and successes seen by women and gender NGOs operating as a central part of environment-focused civil society. In this paper, I offer such an analysis, examining the political...
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description | While scholarship on the topic of gender and the environment is steadily growing, little is known about the challenges faced and successes seen by women and gender NGOs operating as a central part of environment-focused civil society. In this paper, I offer such an analysis, examining the political strategies—rhetorical and procedural—mobilised by the Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). I argue that the WGC has seen lots of success in mobilising arguments that foreground women’s vulnerability to the effects of climate change. But at the same time, the constituency has seen far more resistance to more intersectional feminist arguments that interrogate the role of masculinised discursive power in shaping climate politics. This is at least in part a result of a wider structure of civil society that pigeonholes different identities (e.g. gender, youth, indigenous peoples) in a way that separates their deeply interconnected struggles. Understanding this structural barrier, or dark side of civil society, is crucial to envisioning a more fruitful integration of civil society in sustainability politics. |
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spelling | pubmed-100780842023-04-07 Lessons from the Women and Gender Constituency: Interrogating Civil Society Strategies for Organising in the UNFCCC Flavell, Joanna Int J Polit Cult Soc Article While scholarship on the topic of gender and the environment is steadily growing, little is known about the challenges faced and successes seen by women and gender NGOs operating as a central part of environment-focused civil society. In this paper, I offer such an analysis, examining the political strategies—rhetorical and procedural—mobilised by the Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). I argue that the WGC has seen lots of success in mobilising arguments that foreground women’s vulnerability to the effects of climate change. But at the same time, the constituency has seen far more resistance to more intersectional feminist arguments that interrogate the role of masculinised discursive power in shaping climate politics. This is at least in part a result of a wider structure of civil society that pigeonholes different identities (e.g. gender, youth, indigenous peoples) in a way that separates their deeply interconnected struggles. Understanding this structural barrier, or dark side of civil society, is crucial to envisioning a more fruitful integration of civil society in sustainability politics. Springer US 2023-04-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10078084/ /pubmed/37361705 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10767-023-09448-z Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
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title | Lessons from the Women and Gender Constituency: Interrogating Civil Society Strategies for Organising in the UNFCCC |
title_full | Lessons from the Women and Gender Constituency: Interrogating Civil Society Strategies for Organising in the UNFCCC |
title_fullStr | Lessons from the Women and Gender Constituency: Interrogating Civil Society Strategies for Organising in the UNFCCC |
title_full_unstemmed | Lessons from the Women and Gender Constituency: Interrogating Civil Society Strategies for Organising in the UNFCCC |
title_short | Lessons from the Women and Gender Constituency: Interrogating Civil Society Strategies for Organising in the UNFCCC |
title_sort | lessons from the women and gender constituency: interrogating civil society strategies for organising in the unfccc |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10078084/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37361705 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10767-023-09448-z |
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