Nature-Society Relations and the Global Environmental Crisis – Thinking on Climate Change and Sustainability from the Fields of Intersectional Theory and Transdisciplinary Gender Studies

Since the start of industrialization, society’s relations to the natural world have changed so much that global survival and life on Earth are being called into question. Sociological analyses identified the process of societal modernization as being fundamental to the collapse of our environment. Feminist positions understand the gendered hierarchies underlying the relationship between humans and the more-than-human world as being both the basic cause and the concrete expression of the global environmental crisis.
Seemingly neutral legal, political, and scientific tools and discourses are shaped by cultural assumptions and narratives, and these in turn shape questions around what is deemed worthy of protection and of what is (and is not) deemed ‘nature’ and ‘natural.’ Feminist perspectives also offer visions of how this relationship can be rethought. This conference approaches the topic from sociological, legal, geographical, economic, political, and cultural studies perspectives. Theoretical understandings of the hierarchical relationship between humans and the more-than-human world and the potent gender order inscribed in it are complemented by empirical studies on various aspects of specific entanglements of human and non-human agency.
The conference features contributions from all fields of study, in particular those that take intersectional approaches to investigate the complexities of nature-society relations.

Program & Registration

via Website: https://hu.berlin/climate_change_gender

Concept and Organisation

Christine Bauhardt, Suse Brettin, Meike Brückner, Gabriele Jähnert, Sandra Jasper, Ida Westphal