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Glaciers, gender, and science:
Mar 6^th, 2016 at 1:27pm

Glaciers, gender, and science: A feminist glaciology framework for global environmental change research

'Abstract
Glaciers are key icons of climate change and global environmental change. However, the relationships among gender, science, and glaciers – particularly related to epistemological questions about the production of glaciological knowledge – remain understudied. This paper thus proposes a feminist glaciology framework with four key components: 1) knowledge producers; (2) gendered science and knowledge; (3) systems of scientific domination; and (4) alternative representations of glaciers. Merging feminist postcolonial science studies and feminist political ecology, the feminist glaciology framework generates robust analysis of gender, power, and epistemologies in dynamic social-ecological systems, thereby leading to more just and equitable science and human-ice interactions.'
http://phg.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/01/08/0309132515623368.full.pdf+html

'This work is based upon work supported by the US National Science Foundation under grant #1253779.'

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miketrees Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6492 Gender:	Re: Glaciers, gender, and science: Reply #1 - Mar 6^th, 2016 at 6:20pm I wonder how on earth you stumbled upon this monstrosity. I thought it may have been extracting the urine.
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Re: Glaciers, gender, and science:
Reply #2 - Mar 8^th, 2016 at 8:55pm

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‘Ice asks no questions, presents
no arguments, reads no newspapers, listens to
no debates. It is not burdened by ideology and
carries no political baggage as it crosses the
threshold from solid to liquid. It just melts

A very poetic way of saying that the climate change deniers can present the same cherry picked data, the same discredited graphs and false dichotomous arguments but the glaciers will continue to recede.

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The Right Wing only believe in free speech when they agree with what is being said.

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Re: Glaciers, gender, and science:
Reply #3 - Mar 8^th, 2016 at 9:05pm

The_Barnacle wrote on Mar 8^th, 2016 at 8:55pm:

Quote:

‘Ice asks no questions, presents
no arguments, reads no newspapers, listens to
no debates. It is not burdened by ideology and
carries no political baggage as it crosses the
threshold from solid to liquid. It just melts

A very poetic way of saying that the climate change deniers can present the same cherry picked data, the same discredited graphs and false dichotomous arguments but the glaciers will continue to recede.

Actually a very poetic way of saying that men have controlled the narrative and got it wrong.

'A critical but overlooked aspect of the human dimensions of glaciers and global change research is the relationship between gender and glaciers. While there has been relatively little research on gender and global environmental change in general (Moosa and Tuana, 2014; Arora-Jonsson, 2011), there is even less from
a feminist perspective that focuses on gender (understood here not as a male/female binary, but as a range of personal and social possibili ties) and also on power, justice, inequality, and knowledge production in the context of ice, glacier change, and glaciology'

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