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17.11.2025
What in the world do gender and kinship have to do with climate change?
À propos de cet événement
Le 17 novembre 2025 de 17:30 à 19:30
À l'extérieur de Sciences Po
Organisé par
Sciences Po & Université Paris-CitéMasterclass with Susan Paulson, Professor, University of Florida (Visiting Faculty at the Centre for Research on Social Inequalities, Sciences Po)
Discussion with Isabelle Hillenkamp, research fellow at IRD (CESSMA), member of the Centre for Earth Politics & Cité du Genre
- Wednesday 19th November 2025, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
- Université Paris Cité, Amphithéâtre Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, 4 Rue Elsa Morante, 75013 Paris
- Event organised in collaboration with Cité du Genre
Struggles for environmental justice reveal how coloniality, class, race and gender shape unequal outcomes of climate change—and of climate actions. But what do systems of social differentiation have to do with the causal processes that lead to climate change? And with moves to forge healthier futures?
Gender and kinship systems are vital to human world-making: in every known society, they organize the production and reproduction of people, relationships, and environments. Particular gender-kin systems institutionalized with the rise of colonial capitalism and fossil-fueled industrialization have facilitated modes of exploitation that enabled a great acceleration of resource use, leading to ecological degradation. In other times and places, ethnographic record shows that gender-kin expectations—starting with intimate caring for humans and other nature in bonds of reciprocity and trust—have oriented societies toward regeneration of abundance,proving that currently dominant modes can be adapted to do so. Yet, amid reluctance to respond to climate change with systems change, the transformational potential of gender change provokes exceptionally fierce resistance.
This Master Class seeks to broaden horizons for pathways forward via cross-cultural awareness. We learn with voices and visions from Latin America, including communitarian and indigenous feminists who celebrate and politicize collaborative practices of commoning and conviviality, and men who enact nurturing human and interspecies care, even as they sometimes perform masculinities adapted for labor in extractive industries that degrade their bodies and environments. Participants in this event are called on to imagine and to forge identities and relations that help to generate pleasurable sustainable worlds.

À propos de cet événement
Le 17 novembre 2025 de 17:30 à 19:30
À l'extérieur de Sciences Po
Organisé par
Sciences Po & Université Paris-Cité