Paper details

Paper authors	Emmanuel Kodwo Mensah and Kristie Drucza
In panel on	Mapping Feminist Approaches to Humanitarian Action
Paper presenter(s) will be presenting	In-Person / Online

Abstract

Using a case study from a research project that involved understanding gender inequalities and exclusions in natural resource management and uses in a refugee settlement in Uganda, this article offers a narrative of a mobility map. The male researcher's use of feminist methods did help to represent the lives and voices of women, particularly, those affected by conflict and dealing with the negative impacts of climate change better than other methods used in the study (key informants and in-depth interviews). But, the mobility map had the most impact on the researcher, a male Ghanaian immigrant living in Kampala, Uganda. For the researcher, bell hooks’ Feminist Masculinity of love, integrity, and mutuality did not fully explain why he ended up meeting the respondent’s children; and Kimmel’s masculinity of ‘doing the right thing’ also fell short. By focusing explicitly on women’s mobility and gendered spaces in a multi-cultural patriarchal society and refugee settlement, the researcher “appreciated” and “wondered”. Her story, map, suffering and continual navigation opened the researcher’s allyship voice - Mobility justice is further away than climate justice, especially for women.

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