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Climate Change is a Feminist Issue

Over the next two weeks COP26 is taking place in Glasgow, where governments will negotiate actions and rules for addressing climate change.

We all know that climate change is a feminist issue, particularly because the effects are already being felt disproportionately by women and communities of colour across the world. If you want to find out more, Gal-dem’s new series ‘It’s Happening Now’, explores the effect of the climate crisis and campaigns for change to address its effects on marginalised communities in the UK and around the world. They are publishing a series of articles during, and beyond, COP26 which you can access here.

Posted on October 29 2021 at 14:38

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F-words: Gendered language - the Maker movement and its technology narrative

Dr Elisabeth Loose has just finished her PhD thesis on the amateur technology Maker movement, its gender balance and connection to environmental sustainability at the University of Glasgow’s School of Interdisciplinary Studies. She has recently become self-employed to support charities and social causes with their communications. Follow Elli on Instagram at @elli.ellixir where she advocates for inclusive social impact marketing.

"Narratives around tinkering and DIY have, traditionally, been associated with male activities – just think about how we talk about sheds,workshops and 'man caves' - and now Making is following their example." Dr Elisabeth Loose

Over the past decade a movement known as the Maker movement, or Maker culture, has developed all over the world, whereby hobbyist and amateurs passionately engage in tinkering, creating new technology or simply repairing broken items themselves. Whereas this is nothing new, the movement puts special emphasis on and has been accelerated by digital technology, including microcontrollers and 3D-printers.

Posted on September 4 2020 at 09:19

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GUEST POST: A recovery plan which works for women also works for the planet

Claire Duncanson is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Edinburgh. She has published widely on issues relating to gender, peace and security, with a particular focus on gender and peacebuilding. Her current work aims to bring a feminist analysis to the political economy of building peace, and she's an active member of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). You can follow Claire on Twitter @cpduncanson, read more blogs at GenderED, and find out about her academic research here.

Engender and Close the Gap’s new paper outlining nine principles for economic recovery provides a valuable roadmap for Scotland to emerge from Covid-19 in ways that address the pandemic’s alarming gendered impacts. However, as important as its ideas are, it fails to make a critical connection, one at the heart of our country’s future. While the paper’s nine principles are offered as a path to a fairer, more just, more equal and inclusive Scotland, they can and must also be understood as providing a strong foundation for addressing and arresting the climate and biodiversity crises. This is an increasingly urgent task given Scotland’s recent rise in carbon emissions and its damaged and depleted ecosystems, but mention of this potential benefit of their approach is surprisingly absent from the paper.

Posted on July 10 2020 at 10:35

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