Forsythe, Lora ORCID: 0000-0001-9931-4453 , Lopez, Diana and Banwell, Stacy ORCID: 0000-0001-7395-2617 (2023) Panel: Gender-based violence (GBV) is a significant global health and human rights issue, affecting one in three women globally. In: Crisis in the Anthropocene: Rethinking connection and agency for development, 28th - 30th Jun, 2023, University of Reading. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Gender-based violence (GBV) is a significant global health and human rights issue, affecting one in three women globally. This panel will explore the relationships between GBV, territories and environmental change and present counter responses to violence from indigenous and social movements. Deeply entrenched historical social, political, economic and institutional inequalities, fed by histories of colonialism, have led to the use of varied and interconnected forms of violence among human-environmental relationships within any given 'territory'. These structural violences based on power inequalities exist on a 'continuum' that both exacerbates and is exacerbated by interpersonal/intergenerational violence including lack of bodily autonomy and political threats to environmental leaders and local defenders, especially women.

By applying a feminist lens to the Anthropocene, this panel will examine the prevalence and nature of gender based violence connected to environmental change, both materially and symbolically. We aim draw on territorial based cases from across the Global 'North/South' to show the risks of and responses to gender based violence, particularly in the context of food systems, climate change and resource extraction and grabbing. This will address how women's agency is affected by such inequalities and violence, while their mobilisation in responding to gender based violence addresses important issues that often neglected.

Item Type:	Conference or Conference Paper (Plenary)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	gender based violence; climate change
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) K Law > K Law (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Law & Criminology (LAC)
Related URLs:	https://www.devstud.org.uk/past-conferen...
Last Modified:	13 Feb 2024 12:52
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/45870

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