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Green Hour: "Intersectionality, Environment and Disaster"

Event Details
Date: 12.06.2025, 12:00 o'clock - 13:00 o'clock 
Location: Raum 101, innocube (Gebäude U), Universitätsstraße 1a, 86159 Augsburg
Organizer(s): Prof. Dr. Simone Müller (Environmental History), Prof. Dr. Matthias Schmidt (Human Geography), PD Dr. Kirsten Twelbeck (American Studies, WZU)
Topics: Geografie, Umwelt und Ökologie, Politik und Gesellschaft
Series of events: The Green Hour - A Lunchtime Series by the Environmental Humanities
Event Type: Vortragsreihe
Speaker(s): Dr. Libertad Chavez-Rodriguez

This talk explores how intersectional thinking enriches environmental justice approaches by examining the interplay of gender, inequality, and disaster risk.


Considering the centrality of gender as a social category, as well as the mutual constitution and reinforcement of inequalities and (disaster) risks as proposed by the intersectional risk theory, the talk explores and discusses intersectional thinking in environmental justice approaches.

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