More than Women and Men: A Framework for Gender and Intersectionality Research on Environmental Crisis and Conflict

Beyond the trinity of gender, race, and class: Further exploring intersectionality in adult education

“…For example, a White woman typically experiences racial privilege, but the white woman's sexual orientation, age, education, location (e.g., rural, urban), class, and employment status also affect how she is treated in particular situations. For this reason, intersectionality considers the contextual fluctuation of power while still recognizing that experiences and identities are linked to relatively stable systems of power like patriarchy, systemic racism, class, colonization, heteronormativity, and other deeply rooted social structures (Anthias, 2013;Fletcher, 2018). In other words, intersectionality is both an approach to power and to understanding social positions and structures.…”

“…Feminist scholars of intersectionality have recognized the multi-level nature of intersecting oppressions, which exist at individual and structural levels simultaneously (Djoudi et al, 2016;Hanson, forthcoming;May, 2014;Winker & Degele, 2011) and manifest discursively, ideologically, and materially (Fletcher, 2018). Importantly for adult educators, intersectionality offers us the opportunity to more fully embrace the complexities of lived experiences and thereby develop teaching and research practices that take those complexities into account, thus helping to address oppression in its various forms.…”

Environmental Management: Issues and Concerns in Developing Countries

“…Violations of the right to water can be traced back to injustices including poverty and other social exclusion issues (Leb and Wouters, 2013 (Ray, 2007;Wallace and Coles, 2005). The importance of gender is further underlined by the fact that water security risks are higher amongst women and third gendered people (Demetriades and Esplen, 2010;Denton, 2002;MacGregor, 2009); in consequence women and third-gender people are often more vulnerable and exposed to risks related to water (Fletcher, 2018;Sommer et al 2015). This includes a high vulnerability of women and third gendered people due to natural disasters like floods and droughts (Fletcher, 2018).…”

“…The importance of gender is further underlined by the fact that water security risks are higher amongst women and third gendered people (Demetriades and Esplen, 2010;Denton, 2002;MacGregor, 2009); in consequence women and third-gender people are often more vulnerable and exposed to risks related to water (Fletcher, 2018;Sommer et al 2015). This includes a high vulnerability of women and third gendered people due to natural disasters like floods and droughts (Fletcher, 2018). Accordingly, urban water security cannot be achieved without accounting for gender equality and social inclusion within an assessment framework (Pangare, 2016).…”

Indigenous rights in the context of oil and gas pipelines in Canada: exposing naturalised power structures through a lens of intersectionality

“…Intersectionality as a concept has considerable pliability and has expanded into considerations of environment; it has travelled across the globe; it has been sensitised to multiple manifestations including into studies of masculinities, heteronormativity, migration and transnational livelihoods of post-colonial migrants (Lutz et al, 2011;Cho, 2013). Feminist scholars have suggested the potential usefulness of intersectional analysis in the areas of environmental conflict (Fletcher, 2018) and climate change (Kaijser and Kronsell, 2014;Moosa and Tuana, 2014). Further intersectional analysis concerning climate change and human relations with the 'non-human other' has highlighted the uneven distribution of environmental burdens (Slicer, 2015).…”