Webinar synopsis
Questions about sustainability and environmental justice are central to the future of work. The United Nations refers to global warming and climate change as “the defining crisis of our time” and in this context, environmental justice is an immediate concern for business, management and organizations in terms of their role in mitigating some of the harmful consequences of climate change. This includes a critical inspection of how pollution and the climate crisis impact communities, the role of business in taking responsible action and the role of management to challenge environmental injustices.
This discussion is of utmost importance and urgency for scholarship in business and management. On the one hand, firms play a central role in creating and accelerating the climate crisis, whilst also have the power to take actions to support societal adaptation and change to tackle it. On the other hand, the gendered, racialised and intersectional character of accountability, vulnerability, inequalities, and knowledge and social action on climate requires more intentional engagement and problematization in theoretical and empirical terms. Against, this backdrop, this panel will discuss the linkages between gender, intersectionality and environmental justice, looking to identify ways to shape the scholarly agenda in gender in management.
The panel will focus on the following questions:
- How are gender relations, intersectionality and environmental justice interconnected?
- How could gender in management scholars contribute to the theoretical and empirical advancement of discussions about environmental justice?
- How can scholarship in gender in management have a concrete impact on the environmental crisis?
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Provider Information
BAM Gender in Management SIG
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Who Should Attend?
The event speaks to Sections A1, A2, C1, C2, C3, D1, D2 and D3 as detailed in the BAM Framework
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Speakers
Dr Laura Dobusch
Laura Dobusch is a post-doctoral University Assistant at the Sustainable Transformation Management Lab at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. Main areas of her research are: how organizations can become both more inclusive and sustainable and how respective policy approaches interact with each other; which opportunities, limits and also unintended consequences are linked to organizational inclusion strategies; and how contemporary forms of organizing are connected to the creation of il-/legitimate subjectivities. Laura’s research has been published in journals such as Gender, Work & Organization, Organization and Organization Studies.
Dr Nafhesa Ali
Nafhesa is an interdisciplinary Sociologist with expertise in the everyday lives of racialized and minority communities. She has an expertise in a number of areas that include gender, age and migration, gender empowerment and education in the Global South (GS), Muslim Sexualities and environmental sustainability. She is currently a Research Associate for the ‘Towards Inclusive Environmental Sustainability (TIES)’ Leverhulme-funded project in the Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) at the University of Manchester examining (im)migrant practices of household sustainability in Manchester, UK.
Nafhesa’s forthcoming monograph with Palgrave Macmillan is titled Older South Asian women’s experiences of ageing in the UK: Intersectional feminist perspectives. Other publications include two edited books, Storying Relationships (2021) and A Match Made in Heaven: British Muslim Women write about Love and Desire (2020) and several journal publications in Sexualities, Ethnicities, Ethnic and Racial Studies and Cultural Geographies.
Dr Keston Perry, Williams College
Chairs
Dr Elisabeth Anna Guenther
Elisabeth Anna Guenther is a postdoctoral university assistant at the University of Vienna’s Computational Empowerment Lab.
Her work on intersectional interference in the social practice of teaching STEM received several awards. She combines her profound knowledge of quantitative and qualitative methodologies with social theories to unveil implicit inequality practices.
Her current research focusses on intersectional reflexivity in and through digital empowerment. https://www.elisabeth-anna-guenther.eu/
Dr Jenny Rodriguez
Jenny Rodriguez is Senior Lecturer in Employment Studies and member of the Work & Equalities Institute at Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester.
Her research focuses on intersectional inequality in work and organisations, and the interplay between identity, work and regulation, and has explored the transnational experiences of skilled migrant women. She is the Chair of the Gender in Management Special Interest Group at BAM.
She is also involved in scholar activism as founding member of the Decolonizing Alliance, an international community committed to intellectual and practical collaboration, translation, active solidarity and resistance to tackle intersectional inequalities and neo-colonial power relations faced by people of colour in the Global South and the Global North. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/jenny.rodriguez.html
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Benefits of attending
- Enhancing knowledge and understanding of the relationship between gender, enviornmental justice and management
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Recent debates in social and theoretical issues in relation to the climate crisis - Engage in discussion about the possibility for advancing sustainability in/through management
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Contact
Please contact the BAM Office at [email protected] with any queries.
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Event Fee
BAM Members: Free
BAM Student Members: Free
Non-Members: £25
Non-Members, Students: £15
Registrations close on Sunday 3rd July 2022 at 23:59 UK time.
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