Women, Marginalisation and Displacement – Feminist Perspectives from the Global South

15 September 2021 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm UTC+8

Panel
Organised by Centre for Research in Social Sciences and Education (CERSSE)

Description: The session touched on the themes of climate colonialism, climate mobility and migration, women’s health and environmental justice, involving narratives of women (also displaced), impacted by climate change and other precarities within the normative framework of feminist theorisation of the Global South. The panellists addressed women’s health and environmental justice, along with climate-induced migration and its repercussions on gender. The panel explored the gendered nature of natural calamities, as research has shown women to be more vulnerable with a higher mortality rate, taking examples from cyclones like Gorky in Bangladesh to the recent Amphan in 2020. The hard-hitting fact is that, to date, many countries like India and Bangladesh have no women-centric disaster management policy. The session also looked at communicable and non-communicable diseases and the effect of the pandemic on regular health monitoring.

Watch the session in the video below, or click to view it on Youtube.