Overview
QUESTIONS
- Is gender integral to environmental issues?
Please draw on the readings and films for Week 4.
Video -
- Video: Uma: A Water Crisis in Bolivia Available on Kanopy (2020 Directed by Ana Llacer 78 mins
Reading -
- 1. Guha, Ramachandra (2000) “The Southern Challenge” in Environmentalism: A Global History New York: Longman pp. 98-12
2. United Nations (2021) The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2021 Sections on Women, Water, Clean Energy and Climate Action
3. Macgregor, Sherilyn (2017) (ed.) “Gender and Environment An introduction” in Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment London: Routledge
4. Rocheleau + Nirmal 2015 Feminist_Political_Ecologies_Grounded, Networked and Rooted on Earth
5. Resurreccion, Bernadette (2017) “Gender and Environment in the Global South: From ‘Women, Environment, and Development’ to Feminist Political Ecology” in Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment London: Routledge
- In what ways are issues of population connected to development?
Please draw on the readings and films Week 5
Video -
The World Population Has Reached 8 Billion – Now What? Rachel Snow (United Nations Population Fund 2023 7 minutes)
Reading -
Sasser, Jade (2018) On Infertile Ground “Introduction”, “Ch. 1”, “Ch. 4” + “Conclusion” New York NYU Press
Mila Fenner and Wendy Harcourt (2023) "Debating Population in and Beyond Feminist Political Ecology".pdf
Mollett, Sharlene (2017 “Gender’s Critical Edge Feminist political ecology, postcolonial intersectionality, and the coupling of race and gender” in Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment London: Routledge
Sathi, S (2021): “How do we pay back? Women health workers and the COVID-19 pandemic in India” in Globalizations DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2021.2009308
What is the link between human rights and development?. Please discuss how fast fashion and gender is key for these discussions.
Please draw on the readings and films Week 6.
Video -
Crossing Arizona (Joseph Mathew and Dan DeVivo
Dead White Man’s Clothes (2021 30 minutes)
Reading -
Gagliardi 2019 The Human Rights of Minority and Indigenous Women
- Federici 2004 Women, Land Struggles, and Globalization
Rachel Bick, Erika Halsey and Christine C. Ekenga 2018 The global environmental injustice of fast fashion.pdf
Srirang K Jha and S. Veeramani 2021 Sorting Responsible Business Practices in Fast Fashion- A Case Study of Zara.pdf
. Poppy Imogen Herold , Daniel Prokop 2023 Is fast fashion finally out of season? Rental clothing schemes as a sustainable and affordable alternative to fast fashion.pdf
Marchand and Dominguez CLEAN 2019 Labour and gender in a global context contestations and backlashes