Climate Change, COVID-19 and the Co-Production of Injustices: A Feminist Reading of Overlapping Crises

Citation:

Sultana, Farhana. 2021. “Climate Change, COVID-19 and the Co-Production of Injustices: A Feminist Reading of Overlapping Crises.” Social and Cultural Geography 22 (4): 447–60.

Author: Farhana Sultana

Abstract:

The overlapping global socio-ecological crises of climate change and COVID-19 pandemic have simultaneously dominated discussions since 2020. The connections between them expose underbellies of structural inequities and systemic marginalizations across scales and sites. While ongoing climate change amplifies, compounds, and creates new forms of injustices and stresses, all of which are interlinked and interconnected, the emergence of COVID-19 pandemic has also co-created new challenges, vulnerabilities, and burdens, as well as reinforcing old ones. An intersectional analysis of these overlapping but uneven global crises demonstrates the importance of investigating and addressing them simultaneously through a feminist lens. This allows for a more nuanced understanding of the co-production of injustices structurally, materially, and discursively.

Keywords: climate change, COVID-19, pandemic, intersectionality, injustice

Topics: Environment, Climate Change

Year: 2021