The Feminist-turn of Environmental Justice

About this event

What has a Feminist perspective brought to the pursuit of Environmental Justice as a critical enquiry, as a collective struggle and as a means to decolonise research and planning practice and theory? As a means to promote alternatives based on collective power, care and solidarity?

As an interpretative framing and vibrant social movement, Environmental Justice (EJ) has expanded its scope over the years to encompass not just struggles for redistribution but also for parity of participation, recognition and rights. This expansion has been heralded by a shift from an anthropocentric to an ecocentric perspective, and a deeper critique of the entangled questions of patriarchy, contemporary capitalism and colonialism in and across cities. Feminist perspectives have been central to the opening of further possibilities in EJ, provoking new ways of seeing, feeling, and doing.

Drawing on their own trajectories as researchers, planners and feminist activists, the speakers will explore their own engagement with and reading of the Feminist Turn of Environmental Justice.

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Chair

Caren Levy, Professor of Transformative Urban Planning, The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU)

Speakers

Adriana Allen, Professor of Development Planning and Urban Sustainability (DPU) and former President of Habitat International Coalition (HIC) (2019-23)

Bruna Ferreira Montuori, Research Fellow, Listen, Learn & Leap Project, (DPU).

Jordana Ramalho, Associate Professor in Development Planning for Diversity (DPU) and Programme Leader of the DPU MSc in Urban Development Planning.

Photo by Nelly Leblond @OVERDUE