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- Title
Surfacing the Silent "Others": Women and the Environment.
- Authors
Norman, Phillipa
- Abstract
International environmental law, policy and negotiations are not gender neutral, but rather arenas where power is expressed through silencing ecological perspectives and the concerns of women and gender advocates. Drawing on a feminist ecological perspective, this article considers how environmental problems, like gender inequalities, are symptoms of problematic value-hierarchical thinking like patriarchal dualism which condones the exploitation of women and nature. Despite the gender differential impacts of environmental degradation, there is an enduring lacuna in international environmental law arising from the failure to examine structural causes of inequality and environmental problems. This article critiques the paradoxical dominance of economism and growth models of sustainable development which rely on women and nature to subsidise the system through their labour and ecosystem services. A practical alternative to economism is "gendersensitive ecologism". This framework can inform gender and ecological literacy at all levels -- from "bottom-up" civil society and grassroots projects to the texts of international environmental treaties. Soft law's inclusive process offers a starting point for progressive norm dissemination with the Earth Charter as a prime example of a gender and ecologically literate ethical framework.
- Subjects
INTERNATIONAL environmental law; ENVIRONMENTAL literacy; FEMINISM laws; SUSTAINABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL degradation laws; LAW
- Publication
New Zealand Journal of Environmental Law, 2015, Vol 19, p1
- ISSN
1174-1538
- Publication type
Article