Historically, industrialized countries have created our climate crisis but have yet to take responsibility for the development dilemmas associated with climate change.
The solutions proposed at the international level have largely prioritized technical fixes, including new cooking technologies and carbon credit accounting. Highlighting perspectives from below – the lives and livelihoods of marginalized people – illuminates several problems with these approaches.
Using feminist and anthropological methods to study biomass stoves and efforts to improve them in India, Dr. Meena Khandelwal identifies problems related to carbon market solutions and their associated power dynamics to shed new light on the nexus of cooking technologies, biomass-based livelihoods, gender, and climate change and to expand the kinds of solutions we imagine as possible.
Meena Khandelwal, PhD, is a feminist anthropologist known for her pioneering research on Hindu celibacy and monastic life that puts gender at the center.
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Presented in partnership with The University of Iowa Center for Asian and Pacific Studies. This series is a co-sponsorship between the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council and the Iowa City Public Library.