Advanced Diploma in Gender and Climate Change

In Latin America and the Caribbean, the impacts of climate change are intertwined with the effects of economic globalization, resulting in a “triple exposure” process (climate, colonialism, and capitalism) that disproportionately affects women. It is essential to promote a strategic agenda with a gender perspective in both research and policies on climate change. This requires revisiting the conceptual frameworks of Ecofeminism and Feminist Political Ecology, highlighting how women experience different effects of climate change in their care practices and their relationship with the environment and territory, which are shaped by specific historical and cultural processes. Likewise, it is necessary to challenge the dichotomous social and media representations that portray women either as vulnerable victims or as powerful agents of change. To achieve this, it is indispensable to strengthen relational and intersectional gender perspectives, which emphasize the importance of analyzing the power relations that underlie inequality. This diploma aims to contribute to strengthening women's participation by rescuing, highlighting and positioning in training proposals the different situated experiences of women's movements in pursuit of climate justice.

Objective

• To provide perspectives and conceptual tools that allow for a more complex and enriched understanding of climate policy and justice issues from an intersectional perspective, recognizing complex identities that incorporate class, gender, Afro-descendant identity, sexual diversity, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, and colonial legacy (among others).

Specific objectives

• To foster a perspective of convergence between theoretical-epistemological critique and the different expressions of feminisms and ecofeminisms in Latin America and the Caribbean.
• To offer elements that allow the recovery of knowledge networks between activists and academics to give visibility to territories in resistance and the political processes of building proposals for climate justice.
• To contribute to the creation and consolidation of research and postgraduate training networks in gender and climate change.

The Higher Diploma in Gender and Climate Change is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students; teachers at all levels; activists and members of trade unions, social movements and political parties; public officials; members and managers of non-governmental organizations and professionals interested in the subject.

• Melissa Moreano Venegas (Andean University Simón Bolívar, Ecuador)
• Diana Carolina Ojeda Ojeda (University of the Andes, Colombia)
• Denisse Roca Servat (Pontifical Bolivarian University, Colombia)
• Libertad Chávez-Rodríguez (Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology, Mexico)
• Inés Angela Camilloni (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Lorena Navarro Mine (Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico)
• Margarita Velázquez Gutiérrez (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
• Miriam Lang (Andean University Simón Bolívar, Ecuador)

The program consists of 5 modules of 4 weekly classes each, taught consecutively and linked together.

Total workload of 128 hours.

The modules that comprise the advanced diploma are:

• 1 Module: Conceptual bases of climate change and intersectional approaches
• 2 Module: Climate change, extractivism and feminist political ecology
• 3 Module: Gender, urban issues and climate policy
• 4 Module: Gender and climate change: the social organization of care and the “feminization” of environmental care
• 5 Module: Intersectional alternatives, policies, and methodological approaches