Six avenues for engendering creative environmentalism

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  • dc.contributor.author Rodríguez-Labajos, Beatriz
  • dc.contributor.author Ray, Isha
  • dc.date.accessioned 2025-07-08T10:27:57Z
  • dc.date.available 2025-07-08T10:27:57Z
  • dc.date.issued 2021
  • dc.description.abstract The ubiquitous use of artworks (e.g., paintings, music, films) in environmental activism has been shown to trigger specific cognitive processes as well as changes in personal values and behaviours. There is less understanding of whether (or how) gender-differentiated environmental claims and gender-transformative initiatives are voiced and promoted through art and cultural expressions. Using network analysis, this paper comprehensively reviews ninety-eight years of peer-reviewed literature on gender and environmental activism. We identify six avenues of gendered artistic activism (or ‘artivism’) on environmental issues that communities have pursued in the past. We present a non-prescriptive description of each avenue based on key references in the literature. A gendered lens on artistic activism makes visible the power of different groups to act, be they women, men, LGBTQ or other collectives, their chosen (or available) scopes of creative action when engaging with environmental protection and their thematic foci. A highlight of the study is the significant presence of younger demographics, including children and students in environmental artivism. Finally, we discuss how gendered artivism expands our understanding of environmental action, putting our results in conversation with well-known current environmentalism(s).
  • dc.description.sponsorship The authors thank the members of the Water Group + of the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley, and to Jeremy Tauzer, Marlene Turner and Antoine Wojdyla for insightful comments on a previous version of this paper. The research received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement Nº 797444 (CLAMOR).
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  • dc.identifier.citation Rodríguez-Labajos B, Ray I. Six avenues for engendering creative environmentalism. Glob Environ Change. 2021 May;68:102269. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102269
  • dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102269
  • dc.identifier.issn 0959-3780
  • dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/70865
  • dc.language.iso eng
  • dc.publisher Elsevier
  • dc.relation.ispartof Global Environmental Change. 2021 May;68:102269
  • dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/797444
  • dc.rights © Elsevier http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102269.
  • dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
  • dc.subject.other Ambientalisme
  • dc.subject.other Creativitat
  • dc.subject.other Minories sexuals
  • dc.title Six avenues for engendering creative environmentalism
  • dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
  • dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion