Climate Change
In Hypatia 29.3, a special issue on Climate Change, feminist philosophers Chris Cuomo (author of Feminism and Ecological Communities: An Ethic of Flourishing) and Nancy Tuana (author of Feminism and Science) focus critical attention on one of the most pressing social and environmental issues of our day. Policy makers have recently begun to acknowledge the disproportionate impacts of climate change on women and disadvantaged communities, but feminist analyses of the complex epistemic and political dimensions of climate change, as well as its causes and effects, are urgently needed. This special issue initiates a necessary conversation that will deepen our understanding and help identify promising opportunities for positive change. Co-editors Cuomo and Tuana have invited scholars and activists working at the forefront of feminist climate justice to share their perspectives. Watch the interviews online, and join the co-editors in an open forum on issues on August 18-22, 2014.
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Special Issue on Climate Change, Summer 2014
Symposium articles & Interviews:
  Climate Change—Editors’ IntroductionNANCY TUANA and CHRIS CUOMO Editors, Hypatia Special Issue “Climate Change” 18th August 2014, 9:00am EST |
 Climate Change Science and Responsible Trust: A Situated ApproachHEIDI GRASSWICK Professor, Department of Philosophy, Middlebury College 18th August 2014, 12:00pm EST |
 Indigenous Women, Climate Change Impacts, and Collective ActionKYLE POWYS WHYTE Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University 19th August 2014, 09:00am EST |
 Only Resist: Feminist Ecological Citizenship and the Post-politics of Climate ChangeSHERILYN MACGREGOR Lecturer in Environmental Politics in SPIRE, Keele University 19th August 2014, 12:00pm EST |
 Climate Change and ComplacencyMICHAEL D. DOAN Assistant Professor, History & Philosophy, Eastern Michigan University 20th August 2014, 9:00am EST |
   Gender and GeoengineeringHOLLY JEAN BUCK Ph.D. candidate, Development Sociology, Cornell University ANDREA R. GAMMON Ph.D. candidate, Environmental Philosophy, Radboud University Nijmegen CHRISTOPHER J. PRESTON Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Montana 20th August 2014, 12:00pm EST |
  Weathering: Climate Change and the “Thick Time” of TranscorporealityASTRIDA NEIMANIS, Researcher, Gender Studies, TEMA Institute, Linköping University, Sweden RACHEL LOEWEN WALKER, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Saskatchewan 21st August 2014, 9:00am EST |
 Climate Change, Buen Vivir, and the Dialectic of Enlightenment: Toward a Feminist Critical Philosophy of Climate JusticeREGINA COCHRANE Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Calgary 21st August 2014, 12:00pm EST |
Symposium Interviews:
| Video Interview with CAROLYN SACHS Professor, Rural Sociology & Head of Women’s Studies Department, Pennsylvania State University 19th August 2014, 9:00am EST |
| Video Interview with NANCY TUANA Professor of Philosophy &Director of the Rock Institute for Ethics, Pennsylvania State University 20th August 2014, 9:00am EST |
 Video Interview with PETRA TSCHAKERTAssociate Professor, Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University 21st August 2014, 9:00am EST |
| Video Interview with HEIDI GRASSWICK
Professor, Department of Philosophy, Middlebury College |
| Video Interview with MICHAEL DOAN Assistant Professor, History & Philosophy, Eastern Michigan University |
Video Interview with L ORRAINE CODEDistinguished Research Professor Emerita in philosophy at York University in Toronto, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada |
Browse the entire special issue here
See Also:
- The previous Hypatia symposium: Feminists Encountering Animals
- More on Hypatia Special Issues
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i want to know what the problem in question is, and impacts of the problem on Chinese peasants and women
Thank you for your important work.
This is a very good article, but I do have one bone to pick with MacGregor. Is she the newest form of climate sceptic? Critical thinking is put to use to caste Armageddon stories into the light of the Boy Who Cried Wolf. As though, because people have been finding ways to describe and fear the ‘end of the world’ for millennia, they are all crazy loonytunes. In a secular world, it is easy to be sceptical of the fundamentalist parading in a crowded market with their penance cross on their back. Or those frightened of a comet and thinking it heralds the doom of humankind, a plague, a calamity. But just as its important not to universalise subjectivity or democracy, or other normative notions, it is important not to universalise Armageddon stories. Climate change needs to be evaluated in its specificity. The ‘consensus’ of science that it is ‘true’ is a reaction to the scepticism disseminated by the Koch Brothers and other vested interests, trying to slow down the political will to move away from fossil fuels. Is that not where we need to direct our politically savvy critical thinking? At the specificity of the climate discourse?