H2020Doctoral network2018–2022

WEGO · Well-being, Ecology, Gender, and cOmmunity

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration: 2018-01-01 → 2022-06-30
EU contribution: €3,870,807
Participants: 20
Scheme: MSCA-ITN

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Results in brief

Well-being, Ecology, Gender, and cOmmunity

WEGO-ITN as the first Feminist Political Ecology (FPE) network has set out to look at everyday experiences of environmental practices with a politically aware approach to social and environmental research. WEGO-ITN has tackled socio-ecological challenges to build resilient, equitable and sustainable futures working with communities in Europe – Spain, Italy, UK, The Netherlands and Germany and in countries beyond Europe – Kenya, Japan, Uruguay, India, Nepal and Indonesia. The studies have looked at the impacts of climate change, changes in food patterns, water scarcity, health, ageing and population as well as resistance to mining and fracking and experiments of communities involved in commoning and community economies. WEGO-ITN has shown how local communities are negotiating life and livelihoods in human damaged environments paying attention to emotions, feelings, the spiritual, and knowledge of the natural world and in the process has developed innovative new methodologies that will guide future work of the network members.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

WEGO (Well-being, Ecology, Gender and cOmmunity) is a trans-national network aims to develop a shared research and training agenda to educate the next generation of interdisciplinary social-environmental scientists on feminist political ecology in Europe. WeGO’s research examines gender relations in community organizing from a feminist-informed political ecology (FPE) framework. From an international and interdisciplinary perspective, WEGO looks at gender and power relations in community responses to the current climate, economic and environmental crises in different socio-ecological contexts. WEGO aims to provide insightful and compelling analysis about the importance of gendered community response to climate, economic and environmental change as well as more detailed knowledge about what changes are required for greater resilience and sustainability. Gender is understood as a critical variable in shaping resource access and control, interacting with class, caste, race, culture, and ethnicity to shape processes of ecological change and the prospects of any community for sustainable development. WEGO research will look at resilience and sustainability by examining the gendered role of women in care work for the community and for the environment. The cases chosen – from in and outside of Europe are sites that can feed into innovative European Policy on sustainable development.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

ERASMUS UNIVERSITEIT ROTTERDAM · RotterdamCoordinatorNetherlands
Associazione di Promozione Sociale Punti di Vista · RomaItaly
CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH · Bogor BaratIndonesia
Defensoria del Vecino de Montevideo · MontevideoUruguay
FONDAZIONE PANGEA ONLUS · MilanoItaly
FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN · BerlinGermany
HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAET ZU BERLIN · BerlinGermany
INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES · Brighton - FalmerUnited Kingdom
Island Institute · RocklandUnited States
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING PARTICIPATIVE ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT · PuneIndia
STICHTING IHE DELFT INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION · DelftNetherlands
SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET · UppsalaSweden
THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND · AucklandNew Zealand
UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA · Cerdanyola Del VallesSpain
UNIVERSITAT PASSAU · PassauGermany
UNIVERSITETET I OSLO · OsloNorway
UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON · BrightonUnited Kingdom
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE · BurlingtonUnited States
WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY · WageningenNetherlands
WESTERN SYDNEY UNVERSITY · WERRINGTON NSWAustralia

WEGO · Well-being, Ecology, Gender, and cOmmunity

Results in brief

Well-being, Ecology, Gender, and cOmmunity

Project objective

Participants

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