Climate change through an intersectional lens: gendered vulnerability and resilience in indigenous communities in the United States

Vinyeta, Kirsten; Whyte, Kyle Powys; Lynn, Kathy

doi:10.2737/pnw-gtr-923

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“…Intersectionality [68,69] and recent work applying the lens of intersectionality to climate change research and action (e.g., Kaijser [70], Vinyeta et al [71], Djouti et al [72]) offers guidance for making progress towards paying attention to, and understanding, the ways in which gender, race, class and other identities intersect with experiences of solastalgia. Intersectionality “recognizes complex, horizontal (inter-community) and vertical (national, regional, local) interactions” while acknowledging context-specific mechanisms of exclusion and marginalization [72].…”

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Mapping the Solastalgia Literature: A Scoping Review Study

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Jones-Casey³

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Solastalgia is a relatively new concept for understanding the links between human and ecosystem health, specifically, the cumulative impacts of climatic and environmental change on mental, emotional, and spiritual health. Given the speed and scale of climate change alongside biodiversity loss, pollution, deforestation, unbridled resource extraction, and other environmental challenges, more and more people will experience solastalgia. This study reviewed 15 years of scholarly literature on solastalgia using a scoping review process. Our goal was to advance conceptual clarity, synthesize the literature, and identify priorities for future research. Four specific questions guided the review process: (1) How is solastalgia conceptualized and applied in the literature?; (2) How is solastalgia experienced and measured in the literature?; (3) How is ‘place’ understood in the solastalgia literature?; and (4) Does the current body of literature on solastalgia engage with Indigenous worldviews and experiences? Overall, we find there is a need for additional research employing diverse methodologies, across a greater diversity of people and places, and conducted in collaboration with affected populations and potential knowledge, alongside greater attention to the practical implications and applications of solastalgia research. We also call for continued efforts to advance conceptual clarity and theoretical foundations. Key outcomes of this study include our use of the landscape construct in relation to solastalgia and a call to better understand Indigenous peoples’ lived experiences of landscape transformation and degradation in the context of historical traumas.

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confidence: 99%

Mapping the Solastalgia Literature: A Scoping Review Study

Galway

Beery

Jones-Casey³

et al. 2019

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“…Both environmental justice (EJ), defined as “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and polices” [ 1 ], and reproductive justice (RJ), defined as the right to have children, to not have children, and to parent children in a healthy and safe environment [ 2 ], have been documented as issues of injustice among Indigenous communities [ 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ]. The intersection of environmental justice and reproductive justice highlights the ways that environmental injustice leads to reproductive injustice, as described by the emerging lens of environmental reproductive justice (ERJ).…”

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“Something Was Attacking Them and Their Reproductive Organs”: Environmental Reproductive Justice in an Indigenous Tribe in the United States Gulf Coast

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Kington

2021

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Environmental reproductive justice is increasingly being utilized as a framework for exploring how environmental exploitation and pollution contribute to reproductive health and reproductive injustices. However, little research explores how settler colonialism and historical oppression contribute to the physical transformation of land, and how this undermines tribal members’ health. Even less research explores the intersection of environmental justice and reproductive justice among Indigenous groups, especially in the Gulf South, who are especially vulnerable to environmental justice issues due to climate change, land loss, and oil company exploitation, and for tribes that are non-federally recognized. A qualitative description research methodology was used to conduct 31 life-history interviews with women from a Gulf Coast Indigenous tribe. Findings of this study reveal that central components of reproductive justice, including the ability to have children and the ability to raise children in safe and healthy environments, are undermined by environmental justice issues in the community. Among concerns raised by women were high rates of chronic healthcare issues among community members, and issues with infertility. Recognizing Indigenous sovereignty is central to addressing these environmental reproductive justice issues. This research is unique in exploring the topic of environmental reproductive justice among a state-recognized Gulf Coast tribe.

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“…A common feature of existing work is the fact that they pay insufficient attention to the ways in which gender interacts with other socio-economic, institutional and place-based factors to shape vulnerability for different categories of men and women living in poor urban communities, particularly slums. As Vinyeta et al (2016) have argued, gender can be married with climate change impacts in ways that interact with other forms of oppression, such as economic, class and marginalisation, to create unique climate change vulnerabilities. In this context, some critical feminist scholars (e.g.…”

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Gendered perception and vulnerability to climate change in urban slum communities in Accra, Ghana

2018

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Climate change through an intersectional lens: gendered vulnerability and resilience in indigenous communities in the United States

Cited by 78 publications

References 105 publications

Mapping the Solastalgia Literature: A Scoping Review Study

Mapping the Solastalgia Literature: A Scoping Review Study

“Something Was Attacking Them and Their Reproductive Organs”: Environmental Reproductive Justice in an Indigenous Tribe in the United States Gulf Coast

Gendered perception and vulnerability to climate change in urban slum communities in Accra, Ghana

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