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| Author(s): |
Lígia Amoroso Galbiati
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2024-04-29 |
| Examining board members: |
Leila da Costa Ferreira;
Denise Cristina Vitale Ramos Mendes;
Denisse Roca Servat;
Sônia Regina da Cal Seixas
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| Advisor: | Leila da Costa Ferreira; Marko Synésio Alves Monteiro |
| Abstract | |
The understanding that processes of environmental changes are gendered defines a field of study and activism, initially led by women in the 1970s. However, in the realm of global governance of climate change, the inclusion of the gender agenda officially began in 2014 with the launch of the "Lima work programme on gender" by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Despite being a significant milestone, theorists and activists point out limitations in the hegemonic approach to gender within these spaces. Following the proposal of the Colombian theorist Astrid Ulloa, we adopt the concept of "climate eco-governmentality" to investigate the participation of women and the incorporation of gender debates in Brazilian climate governance. By articulating gender, science, and politics through this concept, we hypothesize that Brazilian climate governance reproduces this eco-governmentality, defining symbolic gender fields within climate change, leading to the restriction of the role of women and marginalized groups to the sphere of vulnerabilities. To test this hypothesis, we conducted a multidimensional analysis at multiple levels, from the international to the local, considering various sectors. Grounded in a critical perspective based on Feminist Political Ecology, we conducted a critical analysis of the gender and climate change field, examining international, political, and expert spaces. We evaluated the structure of Brazilian climate governance concerning female participation and federal climate legislation. We analyzed a local climate change project with a gender perspective, "Pira no Clima," and explored the involvement of women's civil society groups in climate debates, focusing on the context of the National March of Indigenous Women. The results indicate a reproduction of eco-governmentality in the structure of Brazilian climate governance, where transnational guidelines, with the prominence of the Global North, define gender perspectives. This results in symbolically masculinized spaces for mitigation and feminized spaces for adaptation. Through the local case study, we highlighted some structural challenges in including gender perspectives. In this sense, the research provides a comprehensive analysis of climate governance in Brazil, emphasizing the importance of treating gender as a critical category of analysis for a more inclusive and effective approach to climate change. Finally, drawing on the praxis of women's and feminist movements in Latin America and Brazil, we underscore the need to overcome binary and hierarchical views, pointing to the importance of shared and participatory science, considering diverse knowledge. We conclude that effective climate governance requires a reconfiguration of scientific practices that goes beyond the inclusion of women but engages in forming alliances with different peoples and knowledge to address the challenges posed by the climate emergency (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 19/11515-8 - The challenges of gender in the governance of climate change in Brazil: the case of São Paulo State |
| Grantee: | Lígia Amoroso Galbiati |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |