Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
Gender & Development
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
School
School of Arts and Humanities
RAS ID
32643
Abstract
The Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) uses Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) to strengthen grassroots women’s movements to advocate for an alternative development model – the ‘Feminist Fossil Fuel Free Future’ (5Fs) – to ensure new, gender-just, economic, political, and social relationships in a world free from climate injustices. Grassroots women of the global South face the extreme impacts of climate change resulting in reinforced and exacerbated inequalities driven by a patriarchal capitalist economy. APWLD’s Climate Justice-FPAR 2017–2019 (CJ-FPAR) supported young women researchers across Asia to lead grassroots research to expose the disproportionate impacts of climate change on women to demand climate justice. The programme evaluation found that CJ-FPAR proved highly successful as a feminist political tool in enhancing grassroots women’s activism through capacity building, producing new knowledge, tools and resources, undertaking impactful advocacy, and strengthening the movements’ architecture. We argue that FPAR is a useful methodology for grassroots feminist climate justice activists to collectively document lived experiences of climate change and strengthen women’s movements to engage in strategic activism and advocacy for rights-based policy change.
DOI
10.1080/13552074.2020.1842040
Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in GENDER & DEVELOPMENT on 10/12/2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13552074.2020.1842040
Godden, N. J., Macnish, P., Chakma, T., & Naidu, K. (2020). Feminist participatory action research as a tool for climate justice. Gender & Development, 28(3), 593-615. https://doi.org/10.1080/13552074.2020.1842040