Gender, Indigeneity, and the Search for Environmental Justice in Post-Colonial Africa

DS Olawuyi

Gender, Indigeneity, and the Search for Environmental Justice in Post-Colonial Africa

HBKU College of Law

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This chapter examines legal and governance innovations for advancing gender equality in environmental decision-making processes in postcolonial Africa. First, it evaluates how inequitable colonial, cultural, legal, social, and power relationships continue to create interlocking structures of gender-based ecological vulnerabilities in Africa, paying specific attention to Nigeria as a case study. It then discusses the need for a human rights–based gender framework as a policy tool for addressing gender-based environmental inequalities in Africa.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
ISBN (Electronic)	9781108555791
Publication status	Published - Mar 2021

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