Stories of country women: Advancing feminist intersectionality for climate change adaptation in Australia

Sarah Casey; Gail Crimmins; Joanna Mcintyre; Sandy O'Sullivan

doi:10.1111/soru.12474

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Stories of country women: Advancing feminist intersectionality for climate change adaptation in Australia

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Stories of country women: Advancing feminist intersectionality for climate change adaptation in Australia

Sarah Casey, Gail Crimmins, Joanna Mcintyre and Sandy O'Sullivan

Sociologia Ruralis, Vol.65(1), pp.1-18

2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12474

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Abstract

Gender studies

Rural sociology

Women's studies (incl. girls' studies)

climate change

drought

intersectionality

slow violence

rural

women

UniSC Diversity Area - Gender Equity

Drought has always had a historical presence in ‘rural’ Australia and is predicted to intensify in frequency and duration due to climate change. We argue here that the creeping havoc drought visits upon humans, animals and ecosystems in an Australian context is a form of ‘slow violence’ . Such harm and hardship are often obscured because they are more challenging to conceptualise and symbolise than sudden, spectacle-creating disasters. Furthermore, in Australia, it is often obscured because of discursive prioritising of ‘urban’ centres. We resist the ‘invisibility’ of this form of slow violence, applying the concept of slow violence in combination with intersectionality and a relational mode of interviewing to analyse data from 27 interviews undertaken across 3 years with a range of women in drought-declared regions of South-West Queensland, Australia. We centre the voices of Aboriginal women as leaders in this space, as well as settler women who are often overlooked in the settler narrative of working the land. In doing so, we interrogate external constructions of ‘the rural’ and bring recognition to stories and knowledges of women who live with its daily and yearly impacts.

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Title: Stories of country women: Advancing feminist intersectionality for climate change adaptation in Australia
Authors: Sarah Casey (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative Industries
Gail Crimmins (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative Industries
Joanna Mcintyre (Author) - Swinburne University of Technology
Sandy O'Sullivan (Author) - Macquarie University
Publication details: Sociologia Ruralis, Vol.65(1), pp.1-18
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Date published: 2025
DOI: 10.1111/soru.12474
ISSN: 1467-9523; 0038-0199
Copyright note: © 2024 The Authors. Sociologia Ruralis published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Society for Rural Sociology. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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Organisation Unit: School of Business and Creative Industries
Language: English
Record Identifier: 991001098802621
Output Type: Journal article

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