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?
Speakers
- Dr Laura Dobusch
Post-doctoral University Assistant, Sustainable Transformation Management Lab at Johannes Kepler University Linz - Dr Nafhesa Ali
Research Associate, University of Manchester
Chairs
- Dr Elisabeth Anna Guenther, University of Vienna
- Dr Jenny K. Rodriguez, University of Manchester
4 July 2022, furhter information on bam.ac.uk