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Locating Gender in Sustainability Governance and Transitions
Time:
Tuesday, 24/Oct/2023:
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location:GR 1.133
Session Conference Streams:
Democracy and Power, Justice and Allocation
Presentations
Locating Gender in Sustainability Governance and Transitions
Chair(s): Dhanasree Jayaram (Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India)
Presenter(s): Annica Kronsell (University of Gothenburg)
Even though the role of gender in sustainability governance is well acknowledged in academic and policy literature, there are several gaps in the implementation of gender-responsive and gender-transformative policies. Gender-related discussions have focussed on disproportionate effects of various crises on women and increasingly the role of women as governance actors, or even agents of change. Yet, the concept of gender mainstreaming often becomes a buzzword in intergovernmental and other governance-related platforms (such as United Nations/UN agencies, international financial institutions, national governments, and others that deal with sustainability governance), but without giving serious consideration to what this would entail and how goals of gender equality and gender justice could be achieved. Furthermore, contextual knowledge, structural inequalities, and intersectionality are rarely reflected in policies, even though there are more and more studies (including Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports) that highlight the need for addressing them urgently. In this context, the innovative session aims to bring in expert analysis by academics and policy-makers and practitioners from different countries to share their experiences about ‘gender mainstreaming’ in sustainability governance. The session will use short interventions by representatives from academia, intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, governments, and other policy spaces, on questions of knowledge-policy interface, successes and failures, institutional and structural change, multi-actor and multi-level governance, equity and justice, among others. Since gender continues to be one of the less-represented themes in the Earth System Governance (ESG) research agenda, this session would also act as a fillip for further engagement with this important aspect of sustainability governance.
Chair: Dhanasree Jayaram (Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India); dhanasree.j@manipal.edu
Speakers:
Annica Kronsell (University of Gothenburg)
Aditi Mukherjee (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research)
Pedro Coss Sanz (Independent Consultant, Gender & Climate Action; also a member of the delegation of the Dominican Republic in the UNFCCC negotiations)
Juliana Lins Góes de Carvalho (Radboud University)
Sheena Anderson (Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy) - video recording
