Mainstreaming Gender in Global Climate Governance / / Joanna Flavell.

• Superior document: Routledge studies in gender and environments
• VerfasserIn: Flavell, Joanna,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : Taylor & Francis,, 2023.; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge studies in gender and environments.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (199 pages) :; illustrations.

This book explores the role of feminist activists in The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and highlights the progress they have made in mainstreaming gender as a key issue in global climate governance. It is now commonplace for gender to be framed as a political issue in global climate politics within academic scholarship, but there is typically a lack of robust empirical analysis of existing advocacy approaches. Filling this lacuna, Joanna Flavell interrogates the political strategies of the Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) in the UNFCCC (The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change). Through a conceptual framework that integrates climate change with intersectional critical inquiry and political practice, Flavell analyses hundreds of historical documents, coupled with interviews and observations from two UNFCCC conferences. This research uncovers a so-far untold story about the history of the UNFCCC that foregrounds gender and feminist advocacy, highlighting the importance of the WGC in shaping dominant narratives of global climate governance through a series of rhetorical and procedural strategies. Overall, the book draws important conclusions around power in global climate governance and opens up new avenues for advancing a feminist green politics. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental justice, climate politics and governance, environmental activism, and gender studies more broadly.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Acronyms -- 1 Introduction -- Why 'Gender and Climate Change'? -- The UNFCCC as a Site of Inquiry -- Overview of the Book -- Bibliography -- 2 Enduring Debates in Feminist Climate Praxis -- Theorising Feminist Climate Activism -- Enduring Debates -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 3 Ecofeminist Intersectionality: Inquiry and Praxis -- Ecofeminist Intersectionality as Critical Inquiry -- Transversal Politics as Ecofeminist Intersectional Praxis -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 4 From Zero Gender to GAP: Foregrounding Gender in UNFCCC History -- Phase 1: Zero Gender - 1992-2007 -- Phase Two: Mainstreaming Gender into the UNFCCC - 2007-2013 -- Phase 3: Gender Action Plan - 2014-2021 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 5 Political Strategies Mobilised by the Women and Gender Constituency -- Rhetorical Strategies -- Procedural Strategies -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 6 Lessons for Ecofeminist Intersectional Praxis -- Lessons from the WGC for Intersectional Inquiry and Praxis -- Towards an Ecofeminist Transversal Politics -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 7 Conclusion: New Directions for Ecofeminist Intersectional Praxis -- Original Contributions -- Coda -- Bibliography -- Appendix 1: Methodology -- Index.