Deadline Extended!

Decolonising Gender and Climate Change: Using Local Feminisms to (re)-

write Climate Justice in the Global South

In a series of three workshops we aim to foreground the feminist perspectives, initiatives and
mobilisations of gender and/or climate change researchers, practitioners and activists based in
the Global South.

Foregrounding grassroots feminist epistemologies and visions advances the development

of inclusive and decolonial approaches that embed gender and sexual justice within our responses
to climate change. We aim to challenge dominant discourses of gender and climate change
that rely on a heteronormative male-female binary, perpetuate the marginalisation of Global
South actors in climate change knowledge production and management, and neglect
the intersectional pre-existing inequalities that shape vulnerabilities to climate change.

The GENERATE project warmly welcomes contributions that put forward intersectional feminist
approaches to climate justice that are rooted in local concepts of gender, age,
sexuality, indigeneity, ability, health, and other key factors. We particularly welcome radical
approaches that offer more inclusive re/workings of loaded concepts including ‘gender’, ‘justice’
and ‘feminism’, and which revision current realities in the pursuit of more hopeful and just
societies, economies and climates.

These workshops will be interdisciplinary and we welcome submissions from across

disciplines and particularly from activists and practitioners. We aim to create a safe and
inclusive space in which scholars and activists can come together to foreground their own
understandings, priorities and responses to climate change and collectively explore and forge new
trans/national solidarities - in forms of presentation that make most sense to them. It is about
privileging local feminist epistemologies and struggles in our discussions about gender and climate
change, and broadening and deepening current approaches to gender and climate change by
ensuring it focuses and directly builds on the scholarship and activism of women, LGBTQ+
communities, and other traditionally marginalised groups in the Global South.

In our first workshop we will focus on Indonesia. In the following two workshops we will bring
together voices from across Southeast Asia and then the Global South more broadly.

Contributions are invited to respond to (but are not limited to) the following themes:

• Gender and climate change

• Queering climate change
• Decolonising climate change
• Climate-related disasters and urban settlements
• Climate change and epistemologies of the Global South
• Rebuilding communities and post-climate disasters
• Feminist approaches to climate change
 • Gender justice

The first workshop on Indonesia will take place on 9th December 2021 (onlne). The second
workshop on South East Asia will take place in January 2022 (online), and the third on the Global
South will take place in February 2022 (Hybrid: online and offline).

Please submit an abstract (max 300 words) and a brief author bio (max 150 words) by 26th
November 2021 to d.a.pirmasari@leeds.ac.uk. Traditional papers will be considered alongside
more creative forms of presentation. Please put ‘Decolonising Gender and Climate Change’ in the
subject line, along with which workshop (or all three) you wish to attend.

Submissions can be in any local language. We will aim to provide simultaneous translation during
the workshop. If you have any questions or suggestions please get in touch with Dr Desy Pirmasari
(d.a.pirmasari@leeds.ac.uk) or Dr Katie McQuaid (K.R.V.McQuaid@leeds.ac.uk) at the University
of Leeds.

These workshops are being hosted as part of the GENERATE project ‘Gender, Generation and
Climate Change: Creative Approaches to Building Inclusive and Climate Resilient Cities in Uganda
and Indonesia’ funded by the UKRI.