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Women’s Voices in Climate Change - a Case Study from Uganda

Heikkinen, Eevi Aino Olga LU (2024) STVK12 20241
Department of Political Science
Abstract
As the global climate crisis continues to develop, the significance of climate policies in creating sustainable mitigation and adaptation plans to prevent climate change’s adverse effects increases. The ability of climate policies to effectively address those most affected is crucial to prevent disparities among people. In Uganda, women, especially those who are in a vulnerable state due to overlapping oppressions and discriminations, have a higher risk of experiencing adverse effects of climate change due to deep-rooted structural inequalities. Representation of women in all their diversity matters as it can either reinforce or challenge these structural inequalities that are boosting the vulnerabilities. This thesis has aimed to examine... (More)
As the global climate crisis continues to develop, the significance of climate policies in creating sustainable mitigation and adaptation plans to prevent climate change’s adverse effects increases. The ability of climate policies to effectively address those most affected is crucial to prevent disparities among people. In Uganda, women, especially those who are in a vulnerable state due to overlapping oppressions and discriminations, have a higher risk of experiencing adverse effects of climate change due to deep-rooted structural inequalities. Representation of women in all their diversity matters as it can either reinforce or challenge these structural inequalities that are boosting the vulnerabilities. This thesis has aimed to examine how women are represented in Ugandan climate policies by studying the problem representations, assumptions, silences, and the possible impacts of these representations. The analysis was carried out using discourse analysis with Carol Bacchi’s WPR approach as a method and intersectional feminism as a guiding theoretical approach. It was found that Ugandan climate policies did not represent women in all their diversity efficiently, as they failed to acknowledge intersecting vulnerabilities, structural drivers of gender inequality, and did not include women to a significant extent in mitigation and adaptation plans. The study found that Uganda presents a case of the radical potential paradox, where gender mainstreaming has been applied to policies but has not led to sustainable growth in gender equality due to insufficient representation of women. (Less)
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Heikkinen, Eevi Aino Olga LU
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organization
alternative title
An Intersectional Discourse Analysis on Ugandan Climate Policies: Exploring the Problem Representations, Silences, Assumptions, and Impacts in Women’s Representation
course
STVK12 20241
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Climate Change, Climate Policies, Intersectional Feminism, Uganda, Discourse Analysis, Policy as Discourse, WPR Approach, Intersectionality in Policies, Women’s Representation, Women and Climate Change, Health and Climate Change
language
English
id
9152600
date added to LUP
2024-07-18 13:53:07
date last changed
2024-07-18 13:53:07
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  abstract     = {{As the global climate crisis continues to develop, the significance of climate policies in creating sustainable mitigation and adaptation plans to prevent climate change’s adverse effects increases. The ability of climate policies to effectively address those most affected is crucial to prevent disparities among people. In Uganda, women, especially those who are in a vulnerable state due to overlapping oppressions and discriminations, have a higher risk of experiencing adverse effects of climate change due to deep-rooted structural inequalities. Representation of women in all their diversity matters as it can either reinforce or challenge these structural inequalities that are boosting the vulnerabilities. This thesis has aimed to examine how women are represented in Ugandan climate policies by studying the problem representations, assumptions, silences, and the possible impacts of these representations. The analysis was carried out using discourse analysis with Carol Bacchi’s WPR approach as a method and intersectional feminism as a guiding theoretical approach. It was found that Ugandan climate policies did not represent women in all their diversity efficiently, as they failed to acknowledge intersecting vulnerabilities, structural drivers of gender inequality, and did not include women to a significant extent in mitigation and adaptation plans. The study found that Uganda presents a case of the radical potential paradox, where gender mainstreaming has been applied to policies but has not led to sustainable growth in gender equality due to insufficient representation of women.}},
  author       = {{Heikkinen, Eevi Aino Olga}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Women’s Voices in Climate Change - a Case Study from Uganda}},
  year         = {{2024}},
}