TY - JOUR
T1 - Climate change, COVID-19, and the co-production of injustices
T2 - a feminist reading of overlapping crises
AU - Sultana, Farhana
N1 - Funding Information:
I am grateful to the American Association of Geographers for the 2019 Glenda Laws Award, which recognizes “outstanding contributions to geographic research on social issues” and this paper is written to honor scholars like Glenda Laws. I thank David Bissell and anonymous peer reviewers of Social and Cultural Geography for constructive and generous feedback that helped in revising the paper. An earlier version of the paper was presented as an invited keynote lecture at the New Zealand Geographical Society’s annual conference in November 2020. All errors remain mine.
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The overlapping global socio-ecological crises of climate change and COVID-19 pandemic have simultaneously dominated discussions since 2020. The connections between them expose underbellies of structural inequities and systemic marginalizations across scales and sites. While ongoing climate change amplifies, compounds, and creates new forms of injustices and stresses, all of which are interlinked and interconnected, the emergence of COVID-19 pandemic has also co-created new challenges, vulnerabilities, and burdens, as well as reinforcing old ones. An intersectional analysis of these overlapping but uneven global crises demonstrates the importance of investigating and addressing them simultaneously through a feminist lens. This allows for a more nuanced understanding of the co-production of injustices structurally, materially, and discursively.
AB - The overlapping global socio-ecological crises of climate change and COVID-19 pandemic have simultaneously dominated discussions since 2020. The connections between them expose underbellies of structural inequities and systemic marginalizations across scales and sites. While ongoing climate change amplifies, compounds, and creates new forms of injustices and stresses, all of which are interlinked and interconnected, the emergence of COVID-19 pandemic has also co-created new challenges, vulnerabilities, and burdens, as well as reinforcing old ones. An intersectional analysis of these overlapping but uneven global crises demonstrates the importance of investigating and addressing them simultaneously through a feminist lens. This allows for a more nuanced understanding of the co-production of injustices structurally, materially, and discursively.
KW - Climate change
KW - covid-19
KW - injustice
KW - intersectionality
KW - pandemic
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U2 - 10.1080/14649365.2021.1910994
DO - 10.1080/14649365.2021.1910994
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85103679759
SN - 1464-9365
VL - 22
SP - 447
EP - 460
JO - Social and Cultural Geography
JF - Social and Cultural Geography
IS - 4
ER -