Paper details
| Paper authors | Katherine Robitaille |
| In panel on | Mapping Feminist Approaches to Humanitarian Action |
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Abstract
With the exacerbation of events linked to the climate crisis, humanitarian responses are increasingly mobilized (Smieszek, 2022). Although concerns related to the climate crises remain important for humanitarian organizations, the organization of projects paradoxically do not seems to meet their theorical objectives, commitments to fighting the climate crisis in an equitable way, despite the increase in tools and resources dedicated. In other words, paradoxes lies between theory and practice and it remains difficult for humanitarian organizations to translate rhetoric into practice (Brière & Auclair, 2020; ICRC, 2021).
Based on a narrative review of the literature and from an assemblage of theoretical approaches (paradoxes, project organizing and feminist climate justice), this paper proposes to explore elements of reflection on the following question : How can paradoxes in humanitarian project organizing be navigated from a feminist climate justice lense? Elements of reflections will be explored at three levels : societal, organizational, and individual (Geraldi & Söderlund, 2018). Acknowledging and navigating paradoxes in humanitarian project organizing from a feminist climate justice praxis that is anti-racist, anti-colonial and anti-capitalist allows for a more complex understanding of climate (in)justices and the abilities of people that are on the frontline of the climate crisis (Sultana, 2022).
