COVID-19 AND COPRODUCTION OF INJUSTICES: A FEMINIST READING OF CRISES THAT OVERLAP
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Climate change; covid-19; pandemic; inter-sectionalist; injustice
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Since 2020, discussions have also dominated overlapping global socio-ecological crises related to climatic change and the COVID-19 pandemic. The interrelationships expose structural inequalities and systemically marginalization across sites and scales. While continued climate change intensifies, interlinks and interconnections and compounds and creates new forms of injustice and stress, new challenges, vulnerabilities and burdens have been co-creating the emergence of COVID-19 as well as enhances the old ones. An intersectional analysis of these overlapping but uneven global crises shows the importance of simultaneous study and addressing by a feminist perspective. This provides a more nuanced understanding of the structural, material and discursive co-production of injustices.
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