Canadian Indigenous female leadership and political agency in climate change

dc.contributor.authorPerkins, Patricia E. (Ellie)
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-14T02:29:55Z
dc.date.available2020-03-14T02:29:55Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.descriptionThe Canadian federal election of 2015 was a watershed moment for women’s political agency, indigenous activism and climate justice in Canada. Since 1990, skyrocketing fossil fuel extraction, especially in the Alberta tar sands, had generated escalating environmental crises on First Nations territories. Extreme weather events due to climate change were impacting communities across the country, with particular implications for women’s caring and other unpaid work. Ten years of attacks on women’s organizations and priorities by the conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper had angered female voters. In response, indigenous and settler women’s organizing on climate and environmental justice, fossil fuel extraction and voting rights was an important factor in Harper’s October 2015 defeat. Justin Trudeau, elected on promises to address climate change, indigenous rights and gender equity, now faces the challenge of delivering on both distributive and procedural climate justice. This story of extraction, climate change, weather, unequal impacts, gender and political agency in a fossil fuel-producing country in the Global North has implications for gender and climate justice globally. Canada contains within its borders many examples of environmental racism stemming from fossil fuel extraction and climate change, paralleling global injustices. The politics of addressing these inequities is key to a successfully managed energy transition away from fossil fuels. In the Canadian case at least, women’s leadership – especially indigenous women’s leadership – is emerging as crucial.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada IDRC and SSHRC File Agreement No. 2017-0082 and SSHRC File #: 895-2013-1010 Project period: 01-April-14 to 31-Mar-21en_US
dc.identifier.citation“Gender, Climate Justice, Indigenous Leadership and Political Agency in Canada,” in Marjorie Griffin Cohen (ed.), Climate Change and Gender in Rich Countries: Work, Public Policy and Action (London/New York: Routledge), pp. 282-296.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/37138
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectindigenous activismen_US
dc.subjectwomen’s political agencyen_US
dc.subjectwomen’s organizationsen_US
dc.subjectClimate changeen_US
dc.subjectclimate justiceen_US
dc.subjectenvironmental justiceen_US
dc.subjectindigenous rightsen_US
dc.subjectgender equityen_US
dc.subjectpolitical agencyen_US
dc.subjectindigenous women’s leadershipen_US
dc.subjectenvironmental racismen_US
dc.titleCanadian Indigenous female leadership and political agency in climate changeen_US
dc.typePreprinten_US

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