Climate Shocks and Gendered Political Transformation: How Crises Alter Women’s Political Representation

IF 3.1 2区社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Politics & Gender Pub Date : 2023-01-12 DOI:10.1017/S1743923X22000393

Rachel Brulé

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Abstract

In 2019, visible, “rapid onset” climate-related disasters displaced roughly 24.9 million people, with more than 143 million anticipated to be internally displaced by 2050 in Latin America, South Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa (Kaczan and Orgill-Meyer 2020). Not only can climate change induce migration, but, I argue, climate shocks—which I define as discrete, unanticipated destruction due to weather such as floods, drought, or windstorms—can also destabilize gendered social systems. Climate shocks can initiate political transformations that open new space for women in representative politics. Additionally, they can compel women to mobilize—as representatives and their supporters—to redirect local and national political agendas to respond to the vulnerabilities exposed by climate shocks.

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气候冲击和性别政治转型:危机如何改变妇女的政治代表性

2019年，明显的“快速爆发”气候相关灾害使约2490万人流离失所，预计到2050年，拉丁美洲、南亚和撒哈拉以南非洲将有1.43亿人流离失所（Kaczan和Orgill-Meyer，2020）。气候变化不仅会导致移民，而且，我认为，气候冲击——我将其定义为洪水、干旱或风暴等天气造成的离散、意外的破坏——也会破坏性别社会体系的稳定。气候冲击可以引发政治变革，为妇女在代议制政治中开辟新的空间。此外，它们可以迫使妇女作为代表及其支持者动员起来，重新调整地方和国家政治议程，以应对气候冲击暴露出的脆弱性。

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期刊介绍： Politics & Gender is an agenda-setting journal that publishes the highest quality scholarship on gender and politics and on women and politics. It aims to represent the full range of questions, issues, and approaches on gender and women across the major subfields of political science, including comparative politics, international relations, political theory, and U.S. politics. The Editor welcomes studies that address fundamental questions in politics and political science from the perspective of gender difference, as well as those that interrogate and challenge standard analytical categories and conventional methodologies.Members of the Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association receive the journal as a benefit of membership.