Climate change and gender inequality: What are the connections and what can we do about it?

How are the impacts and causes of global heating shaped by gender inequality? Will climate change exacerbate violence against women? How can feminism help us to tackle the climate crisis? Does Covid-19 present an opportunity to shift gender norms and our relationship with the environment? These are some of the questions which will be explored in this interdisciplinary, free public webinar, open to all, organised by members of Durham University’s Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse (CRiVA) as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science. It will take place during the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, and in the wake of the crucially important UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow, so we will reflect on the outcomes of the conference as part of the discussion.

Speakers:

• Dr Sherilyn MacGregor (Reader in Environmental Politics, University of Manchester) Author of Beyond Mothering Earth: Ecological Citizenship and the Politics of Care, editor of the Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment, and co-author of recent Women's Budget Group report Towards a Feminist Green New Deal for the UK and forthcoming Oxfam America report Caring in a Changing Climate.
• Professor Tanya Wyatt (Professor of Criminology, Northumbria University) Co-author of books including Crime and Power, Wildlife Criminology, and Emerging Issues in Green Criminology: Exploring Power, Justice and Harm.
• Dr Meghna Ranganathan (Assistant Professor, Dept of Global Health & Development) and Alyssa Thurston (Research Assistant, Dept of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) Authors of research including 'Natural hazards, disasters and violence against women and girls' (BMJ Global Health, 2021).
• Dr Stephen Burrell (Durham University Dept of Sociology) Undertaking Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship on 'The climate crisis as masculine violence? Engaging men and boys in caring for the planet'.
• The event will be chaired by Sandy Ruxton (Climate activist and Honorary Fellow, Durham University Dept of Sociology). There will plenty of time for questions and discussion.

Sign up here: https://climate-gender-webinar.eventbrite.co.uk. After signing up, you will receive Zoom joining instructions in an e-mail from Eventbrite on the day of the webinar (check your junk box if you can't find this). If you have any questions, contact CRiVA at durham.criva@durham.ac.uk.

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