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Neil Crawford
(University of Leeds)
Katie McQuaid
(University of Leeds)
Desy Ayu Pirmasari
(University of Leeds)
Format:
Workshop
Streams:
Climate & ecosystems
Gender & generation
Sessions:
Wednesday 6 July, -
Time zone: Europe/London
Climate and Gender (In)Justice in the City: Creative Responses to Climate Change in Urban Uganda and Indonesia.
Workshop W05 at conference DSA2022: Just sustainable futures in an urbanising and mobile world.
This workshop discusses the potential of creative and artistic work to address intersecting issues of climate and gender (in)justice in cities. It offers examples and insights from a 2021 artistic competition run by the Gender, Generation and Climate Change (GENERATE) Project.
Long Abstract:
Climate change has implications that are experienced unequally – along gendered and generational lines. Cities meanwhile are among the main causes of climate change, accounting for around 70% of global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions, but also the most affected. Cities are vulnerable to issues such as extreme heat stress, given their composition and design, increased storms, and flooding caused by rising sea levels, particularly for the majority of the world’s cities which are found close to large bodies of water. Overlapping and intertwined climate and gender injustices are thus often most starkly found in the city, and will continue to be found there as the world urbanises further, particularly in the Global South. Yet as key sites of innovation and creativity, cities are also places of resistance, adaptation, and solution-making to climate change.
When it comes to better understanding and more inclusively responding to the impacts of climate change in cities, arts and creative expression can play a key role in centring the voices of those least able to mitigate or adapt to environmental shifts and crises. They similarly can provide us with new ways of thinking and the ideas needed to move towards more equitable and climate justice cities.
In response to these important issues, in August 2021, the University of Leeds-based GENERATE Project launched an open call for creative work on climate and gender (in)justice in urban Uganda and Indonesia. The call resulted in 130 submissions, with 30 officially selected pieces of work. The selected creative work centred communities under considered in climate discussions, such as LGBTQ+ people. The workshop will present and discuss the call and its results, demonstrating the potential such approaches can have to more traditional social science methodologies applied to the study of the impacts of climate change in Development Studies.
The session will involve a short introduction and overview provided by the GENERATE team. A series of around 6 artists from Uganda and Indonesia will present their work, how it responds to climate and gender (in)justices in an urban setting, and their hopes for a climate just future. The work will include photographs, creative writing, and short videos. The session will then be open to questions and general discussion moderated by the co-convenors. The workshop will also utilise Mentimeter as a means of asking questions to the audience and increase engagement.
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Katie McQuaid (University of Leeds)
Desy Ayu Pirmasari (University of Leeds)
Short Abstract:
This workshop discusses the potential of creative and artistic work to address intersecting issues of climate and gender (in)justice in cities. It offers examples and insights from a 2021 artistic competition run by the Gender, Generation and Climate Change (GENERATE) Project.
Long Abstract:
Climate change has implications that are experienced unequally – along gendered and generational lines. Cities meanwhile are among the main causes of climate change, accounting for around 70% of global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions, but also the most affected. Cities are vulnerable to issues such as extreme heat stress, given their composition and design, increased storms, and flooding caused by rising sea levels, particularly for the majority of the world’s cities which are found close to large bodies of water. Overlapping and intertwined climate and gender injustices are thus often most starkly found in the city, and will continue to be found there as the world urbanises further, particularly in the Global South. Yet as key sites of innovation and creativity, cities are also places of resistance, adaptation, and solution-making to climate change.
When it comes to better understanding and more inclusively responding to the impacts of climate change in cities, arts and creative expression can play a key role in centring the voices of those least able to mitigate or adapt to environmental shifts and crises. They similarly can provide us with new ways of thinking and the ideas needed to move towards more equitable and climate justice cities.
In response to these important issues, in August 2021, the University of Leeds-based GENERATE Project launched an open call for creative work on climate and gender (in)justice in urban Uganda and Indonesia. The call resulted in 130 submissions, with 30 officially selected pieces of work. The selected creative work centred communities under considered in climate discussions, such as LGBTQ+ people. The workshop will present and discuss the call and its results, demonstrating the potential such approaches can have to more traditional social science methodologies applied to the study of the impacts of climate change in Development Studies.
The session will involve a short introduction and overview provided by the GENERATE team. A series of around 6 artists from Uganda and Indonesia will present their work, how it responds to climate and gender (in)justices in an urban setting, and their hopes for a climate just future. The work will include photographs, creative writing, and short videos. The session will then be open to questions and general discussion moderated by the co-convenors. The workshop will also utilise Mentimeter as a means of asking questions to the audience and increase engagement.