Category: Videos

A talk with policymakers at FPE Dialogues in Montevideo

In our two-fold event “Feminist Political Ecology and Liveable Cities: Transatlantic Dialogues”, collectively organized by WEGO-ITN PhD’s and mentors in Barcelona and Montevideo, amongst other invitees and participants from grassroots organisations, we engaged with policymakers from Europe and Latin America to discuss feminist and ecological strategies in urban and regional planning:

– Silvana Pissano, the mayor of Municipio B in Montevideo

– Amaranta Herrero, coordinator of Barcelona City Council’s project ‘Barcelona World Capital of Sustainable Food 2021’

– Laia Forné Aguirre, urban sociologist and planner who has worked in public administration and as advisor for participatory processes at Barcelona’s City Council

– María Pía Torres Zamora, feminist anthropologist involved in the Constitutional Convention in Chile 2021

A written report of our FPE Dialogues in Barcelona was presented at the follow-up event in Montevideo organized by the involved WEGO team and the Defensoría de Vecinos y Vecinas de Montevideo in collaboration with the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation AECID who hosted the event at their training centre.

The report was also published on the Government of Uruguay’s official website (https://www.gub.uy/junta-departamental-montevideo/comunicacion/publicaciones/relatoria-ecologia-politica-feminista-ciudades-vivibles-dialogos).

Video: “Climate action and training for gender equality”, with UNWomen

Our researcher Eunice Wangari-Muneri participated in December 13th 2021 in a webinar organized by United Nations Women. The session, “Climate action and training for gender equality” is part of a series of Virtual Dialogues by the United Nations that aims to explore climate action and gender justice.

Eunice was joined by Dharmistha Chauhan, an economist with over 20 years of experience in the field of gender and community-led sustainable development; Mairi Dupar, Research Fellow of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the Gender and Social Inclusion Lead and Managing Editor of the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN); and Dr Lucy Ferguson, specialist in gender equality and women’s empowerment. Dr Ferguson will moderate the talk.

You can now watch the full discussion online!

 

More on the event:

Climate change is the defining crisis of our time. We know that the climate crisis is not gender neutral. The impacts of climate change are gendered; that is, they impact people in different ways based on their gender. Women face higher risks and greater burdens from the impacts of climate change in situations of poverty, and the majority of the world’s poor are women. As Christina Kwauk of the Brookings Institution puts it, “Climate change exacerbates existing structural and social gender inequalities in ways that’s really led [women and girls] to experience climate change the worst and first.” Gender-based violence skyrockets in the aftermath of natural disasters, while the food shortages and financial hardship wrought by climate change can increase violence against women and LGBTQI people. Gender inequality limits the resilience and adaptive capacity of women, families and communities.

How to participate:

From UNWOmen:

You can take part in this Virtual Dialogue in two ways: by participating in the live Webinar (in English) on 13 December 2021 and/or contributing to the CoP discussion forum (6–23 December). After our panellists deliver their presentations during the Webinar, you can ask questions using the ‘questions’ feature, which the moderator will pose on your behalf. We will post a recording of the Webinar on the CoP platform and the Training Centre’s YouTube channel. Everyone who participates by asking questions in the Webinar or posting in the forum will be credited in the Virtual Dialogue’s final report.

“Ecología política feminista y ciudades vivibles: Diálogos transatlánticos” is now available online

If you missed the transatlantic edition of our series of “Feminist Political Ecology”-Dialogues, worry no more. Both sessions are now available online in our YouTube channel. The presentations and debates were held in Spanish.

The event, held online in November 4th, with scholars, activists and local government actors from Spain, Mexico, Chile and Uruguay discussed critically on the theme of “livable cities” from a feminist political ecology perspective and with a focus on socio-environmental justice. Topics such as water politics and integrated management, urban greening, food sharing and the commons, urban and planetary health in times of pandemic, and ‘right to the city’ approaches were discussed throughout two sessions: “Gobernanza y políticas públicas rumbo a las ciudades vivibles” and “Flujos entre territorios: el caso del agua”.

A few of the speakers at “Ecología Política Feminista y Ciudades Vivibles: Diálogos Transatlánticos”  were Silvana Pissano (mayor of Municipio B in Montevideo), Amaranta Herrero Cabrejas (strategic coordinator of Proyecto Barcelona Capital Mundial de la Alimentación Sostenible 2021), Blanca Valdivia (founding partner of Col·lectiu Punt 6). WEGO-ITN Early Stage Researchers Marlene Gomes, Nick Bourguignon, Anna Katharina Voss also presented their work, as well as our Panagiota Kotsila (BCNUEJ) and Sergio Villamayor Tomás (Autonomous University of Barcelona).

 

 

Videos: 7 tips and 6 mistakes in writing academic journal articles

WEGO-ITN researchers and partners gathered (online) in February 2021 to participate in a series of training activities with Prof. Dr. Andrea Nightingale, University of Oslo. The aim was to prepare the group to contribute with articles for the Journal of Peasants Studies.

This resulted in this short video series: “7 Tips for Writing Academic Journal Articles” and “6 Common Mistakes in Writing Academic Journal Articles”. You can watch them here:

 

 

Video series: Second Training Lab

Originally planned to take place in Bolsena, Italy, at WEGO-ITN’s partner Punti di Vista, last year’s Second Training Lab was adapted into an on-line event, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. All meetings, lectures, workshops and plenaries happened between June 10th-18th 2020.

All encounters and discussions were recorded and are now also available in videos produced by the group. The editing was a collaborative project by WEGO PhD’s Marlene Gómez, Dian Ekowati, Enid Still and Anna Katharina Voss, together with film maker John Akerman.

Videos include a keynote lecture by Prof. Dr. Katherine Gibson, from the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, and the Community Economies Research Network (CERN) – plus discussions between WEGO members about the meanings of Feminist Political Ecology and care. Finally, 3 videos depict mini lectures on PhD’s research projects.

They are also available at our Youtube and Vimeo channels.

International Women’s Day: ‘Gender Dimensions in Climate Change’ lecture

International Women’s Week was a day of celebration – and combativeness – for WEGO-ITN researchers and partners. Coordinator Prof. Dr. Wendy Harcourt held a lecture at Radboud University  on ‘Gender Dimensions in Climate Change’, which is now fully available online:

About the lecture:

’My talk will look critically at the notion of the green economy as the way to mitigate climate change. My argument is that the neoliberal green economy relies on market and technological efficiency and only pays lip service to notions of gender, empowerment and inclusion. Its apparent championing of small-scale green entrepreneurs – particularly women and indigenous groups from the Global South as ‘good for climate’ ignores power relations and inequalities based on gender, race, ethnicity, class, and physical ability. The neoliberal green economy is not a climate- or people-caring economy because it ignores the actual care work that is required to maintain everyday life in all societies.

My talk proposes that we must move beyond the green economy in order to advance climate justice by reimagining ‘caring for climate’ through a caring economy or solidarity economy framework, one that is embedded in the principles of cooperation, sharing, reciprocity, and intersectional environmental justice. Instead of ‘greening’ the economy we need to be ‘sustaining livelihoods’ to ensure nutrition, ecological balance, clean water, secure housing, gender equality, meaningful approaches to all forms of labour.

Care work is always there. What needs to change is that it is no longer invisible, privatised, and done for free by women, people of colour, immigrants, or other marginalised groups. Caring for climate, caring for earth, and caring for people should be at the centre of economic value, not at the margins. What is required in order to ‘care for climate’, is to build caring communities for change based on solidarity economies. Such economies would value care work in all areas of life with the creation of new job sectors and climate-friendly livelihoods which challenge the gendered composition of the today’s neoliberal, androcentric and capitalocentric economy.’’

 

 

Video: What to expect from the 8th International Degrowth Conference?

WEGO-ITN’s partners and researchers have gathered to produce this video, as to prepare for the Feminist Political Ecology Key Conversation, a series of pre-event online discussions building up to workshops and a plenary at the 8th International Degrowth Conference, that will take place in the Hague between 24-28 August 2021.

Calls for contribution – in any form: articles, art, videos, perfomances – are still open until April 6th.

The conversations will explore feminisms, relations of care and well-being, with a focus on the following: How can we understand care as central within degrowth and at the core of our economies and societies? In what way can economies be rearranged in terms of provisioning that care, taking into account health, aging and ability, whilst degrowing? How can we change our relations of care among humans and more-than-human beings so that future societies are just for all living beings? How can we think about degrowth in relation to Covid19 and avoid essentializing nature when talking about these relations?

Stay tuned!