Kate Wilkinson Cross
Kate Wilkinson Cross is a socio-legal researcher focussing on international environmental law. At present, her research centres on discourses of technology, modernisation and the commoditisation of knowledge in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Her research into ecological modernisation examines the prioritisation of technological innovation and the interconnections between technology, traditional knowledge and security within the CBD. Further areas of research include ecofeminist studies of international environmental law, focussing on the principle of intergenerational equity in the UNFCCC. Other areas of interest include environmental security, ecofeminist legal theory, statelessness, and desertification.
Kate teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate levels including International Law, International Environmental Law, and Gender and the Law. She is module leader for International Law and Gender and the Law at undergraduate level. She is also Programme Leader for International Law, International Human Rights Law, and Environmental Law & Practice LLMs by distance learning.
Kate joined Leicester De Montfort University Law School in January 2016 and received her PhD from Sheffield University in August 2016. Her doctoral researched examined the securitisation of the environment in international environmental law. She obtained an LLM in International and European Law from Sheffield University in 2008 and an LLB from the University of Sussex in 2007.
Supervisors: Dr Russell Buchan, Professor Tamara Hervey, and Carolyn Shelbourn
Kate teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate levels including International Law, International Environmental Law, and Gender and the Law. She is module leader for International Law and Gender and the Law at undergraduate level. She is also Programme Leader for International Law, International Human Rights Law, and Environmental Law & Practice LLMs by distance learning.
Kate joined Leicester De Montfort University Law School in January 2016 and received her PhD from Sheffield University in August 2016. Her doctoral researched examined the securitisation of the environment in international environmental law. She obtained an LLM in International and European Law from Sheffield University in 2008 and an LLB from the University of Sussex in 2007.
Supervisors: Dr Russell Buchan, Professor Tamara Hervey, and Carolyn Shelbourn
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This paper starts from the view that political ideologies inform the content and meaning of environmental principles. It will examine the ideologies informing environmental principles from an ecofeminist perspective. Ecofeminism offers a nuanced and rigorous critique of the ideologies informing IEL. This is because it explores the nature of the connections between the domination of women and nature. It offers a strong critique of the exploitative and gendered conceptual frameworks which underpin the dominant and rational discourses in western society. These are formed by a set of values, attitudes, beliefs, and assumptions that shape and mirror how an entity views itself and the world around it, and a number of different factors such as class, religion, nationality, gender, and race/ethnicity can alter the mirror in which an entity views itself.
Therefore, by analysing the underlying values, beliefs and attitudes within distinct ideologies, this paper will consider how they have shaped the content of these principles, and how they may impact the current trajectory of international law.
Informed by feminist theory, this paper examines the language used by IPLC and state actors and the extent to which they approached indigenous rights as the intersection of values, culture and place, or as objective and measurable goals for States to enforce and uphold. Feminists and other critical theorists recognise that language can reveal the implicit cultural and social values, beliefs and assumptions reflected within international law. They recognise that there are normative consequences to the symbols inherent in language and communication, which are ‘embedded within culture and nature together.’
Therefore, the choice of language by different actors involved in the negotiations, and the way that these actors relate values and goals to IPLC rights are worth examining. They may reveal the extent to which State actors actively engaged with the intersections between rights, culture and the environment during the 13th COP/MOP, or whether these two actors still speak in different tongues.
Key words: ecofeminism, indigenous peoples, Convention on Biological Diversity, language, observations, rights
This paper starts from the view that political ideologies inform the content and meaning of environmental principles. It will examine the ideologies informing environmental principles from an ecofeminist perspective. Ecofeminism offers a nuanced and rigorous critique of the ideologies informing IEL. This is because it explores the nature of the connections between the domination of women and nature. It offers a strong critique of the exploitative and gendered conceptual frameworks which underpin the dominant and rational discourses in western society. These are formed by a set of values, attitudes, beliefs, and assumptions that shape and mirror how an entity views itself and the world around it, and a number of different factors such as class, religion, nationality, gender, and race/ethnicity can alter the mirror in which an entity views itself.
Therefore, by analysing the underlying values, beliefs and attitudes within distinct ideologies, this paper will consider how they have shaped the content of these principles, and how they may impact the current trajectory of international law.
Informed by feminist theory, this paper examines the language used by IPLC and state actors and the extent to which they approached indigenous rights as the intersection of values, culture and place, or as objective and measurable goals for States to enforce and uphold. Feminists and other critical theorists recognise that language can reveal the implicit cultural and social values, beliefs and assumptions reflected within international law. They recognise that there are normative consequences to the symbols inherent in language and communication, which are ‘embedded within culture and nature together.’
Therefore, the choice of language by different actors involved in the negotiations, and the way that these actors relate values and goals to IPLC rights are worth examining. They may reveal the extent to which State actors actively engaged with the intersections between rights, culture and the environment during the 13th COP/MOP, or whether these two actors still speak in different tongues.
Key words: ecofeminism, indigenous peoples, Convention on Biological Diversity, language, observations, rights