Meaningful conversations on climate change: Reflections on Gender and Power

Abstract

This article explores how feminist perspectives, in relation to gender and power dynamics, contribute to transformative ways of addressing the current climate crisis. In the first part of the article, we introduce the need for a feminist lens when analysing the differential impacts of climate change in relation to gender, class, ethnicity, etc., as well as the role of women’s leadership in activism, negotiations, political decision-making and science. In the second part, we present how the facilitation of public and collective conversations that incorporate these issues, based on the experience of open forums in Madrid, allows for reflections on climate change as an everyday experience, attention to emotions and embodiment, intersectionality and eco-dependence and interdependence, as well as different forms of leadership. Such conversations and encounters aim to contribute to the necessary work of further expanding feminist approaches to climate change.