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Considering Feminist Approaches to Climate Change - discussion with Katherine Gibson
March 24, 2022 4:00pm-5:00pm
Grays Hall Basement Lounge
7 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
Please join Professor Katherine Gibson for a discussion of the way feminist politics inform approaches to climate change. Professor Gibson will discuss examples of contemporary, collective action to foster climate justice.
Prior to joining Western Sydney University in 2009 Professor Gibson held positions as Professor and Head of the Department of Human Geography in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University (1999-2008) and Director of Women's Studies at Monash University (1992-1995). She has directed action research projects with communities interested in alternative economic development pathways in Australia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and the Philippines. These experiences have contributed to elaboration of a distinctive 'Community Partnering Approach to Local Development'. In 2008 she made a 50 minute film on social enterprise development as a local development strategy in the Philippines. Her most recent book, co-edited with Gerda Roelvink and Kevin St. Martin, is entitled Making other worlds possible: performing diverse economies (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). In 2013 she published Take back the economy: an ethical guide for transforming communities, co-authored with Jenny Cameron and Stephen Healy (University of Minnesota Press).