TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Gendered geographies of violence: a multiple case study analysis of murdered women environmental defenders
JO  - Journal of political ecology
A1  - Tran, Dalena
A1  - Martinez-Alier, Joan
A1  - Navas, Grettel
A1  - Mingorria, Sara
SP  - 1189
EP  - 1212
VL  - 27
IS  - 1
N2  - This study illustrates how, despite the diversity of women environmental defenders and their movements around the world, there are near-universal patterns of violence threatening their survival. Violence against women environmental defenders, often perpetrated by government-backed corporations, remains overlooked. Research on this issue importantly contributes to discussions about environmental justice because women defenders make up a large proportion of those at the front lines of ecological distribution conflicts. Through comparative political ecology, this research analyzes cases from the Environmental Justice Atlas, an online open-access inventory of environmental distribution conflicts, in which one or more women were assassinated while fighting a diverse array of extractive and polluting projects. Although the stories showcase a breadth of places, conflicts, social-class backgrounds, and other circumstances between women defenders, most cases featured multinational large-scale extractive companies supported by governments violently targeting women defenders with impunity.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1073-0451
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/v27i1.23760
ID  - ref1
ER  -