Prof. Kirsten Ainley1, Dr Nadia Degregori Retamozo2, Dr Annabel Dulhunty1, Ms Amra Lee1, Dr Sonia Palmieri1, Ms Isabelle Zhu-Maguire1
1Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 2University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Biography:
Kirsten Ainley is a Professor in the ANU Coral Bell School International Relations Department, who works on global ethics and on gender and justice in conflict-affected states. She co-runs the GCRF Gender, Justice and Security Hub and runs the Hybrid Justice project, analysing the impact of domestic-international criminal justice.
Nadia Degregori Retamozo is a political geographer specialising in environmental governance and the governance of socioenvironmental emergencies and crises. Her research combines social sciences and environmental humanities approaches and methods and her professional experience includes policy advocacy for international NGOs.
Dr Annabel Dulhunty is a Senior Lecturer at the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy. Her research focuses on feminist and social justice approaches to aid and international relations. Dr Dulhunty has worked extensively with aid and development organisations. She is currently researching feminist responses to climate justice and Gender and Development in the 21st Century.
Dr Sonia Palmieri is Head of the ANU Department of Pacific Affairs. Her research interests lie in the social and cultural conditions that legitimise women's leadership in political institutions, including parliaments. She researches gender sensitive parliaments and in parallel, Sonia develops inclusive feminist research methodologies.
Isabelle Zhu-Maguire is a PhD candidate at the ANU Coral Bell School, working on Australia’s response to the climate advocacy of Pacific Island Nations. She has conducted extensive research into experiences of Afghan women living through conflict, oppression, and climate change. Isabelle has also been an advocate for greater youth inclusion within the UNFCCC.
Abstract:
Conflict, patriarchy, colonialism and gender-based violence have devastating, long-term consequences for individuals, families and communities. They also severely hamper the successful achievement of development goals internationally. To move beyond structures of violence and oppression we need to envision future/s in which gender and racial justice has been achieved. The roundtable will develop and reflect on visions of radically transformed futures by focusing on social justice, climate, space and the built environment, and methodologies of transformation.
Speakers will discuss the ways in which radically transforming the future relies on confronting the critical and devastating challenges of our era, including the climate emergency, by going beyond addressing this challenge through technical ‘fixes’, and using instead an intersectional feminist approach to reframe climate justice – addressing ongoing coloniality, racism and embedded systems of gendered exploitation in this process. They will also explore the possibilities for partnerships for radically transformed futures and social justice – how the global push back against NGOs and social movements and decreased access to power in repressive environments, alongside commitments to localise, require new ways of working to achieve shared transformative goals. On methods, the panel will cover recent research conducted in Vanuatu which developed participatory feminist methods privileging Pacific values of relationship building. It will also highlight the need to develop a deeper, more holistic understanding of what it means to listen in order to recognise the radically transformed and inclusive futures already imagined by oppressed, indigenous, Black and feminist scholars and activists which are too often overlooked.