Gendered violence martyring Filipina environmental defenders
Tran, Dalena (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)

Date:	2023
Abstract:	This article contributes to discussions of extractive violence by exploring how gender influences violent circumstances under which women were assassinated during environmental conflicts. Partnership with local activists facilitated the reporting of cases of martyred Filipina women environmental defenders on the Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas). Twenty cases from the EJAtlas involving thirty-one women environmental defenders martyred for their activism were analyzed qualitatively examining why and how differences and similarities emerge based on intersectional factors with special attention to gender. Findings suggest that 1) impoverished, rural, Indigenous, and otherwise multiply marginalized women were at high risk of vulnerability and retaliation in environmental conflicts because of their loss of agency and status; 2) mining and logging were deadliest partly because such industries institutionalize and exacerbate violent, gendered subordination 3) the circumstances of their murders were subtly gendered, including their exposure and vulnerability to conflicts, mobilization opportunities, and experienced violence.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Women ; Environmental conflicts ; Philippines ; EJAtlas ; Violence
Published in:	The extractive industries and society, Vol. 13 (March 2023) , art. 101211, ISSN 2214-790X

DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2023.101211

9 p, 3.0 MB

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