Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Climate Emergency Cauldron: When Art and Activism Engender Futures

Abstract

Race, gender, and sexuality are important markers for the human sciences. Although the ecological question has remained distant from the intersectional arena, beginning in the 1970s, ecofeminism began to create points of rapprochement between the agents of environmental devastation and those who persecuted dissident genders and sexes. This article aims to demonstrate that we cannot talk about the climate crisis without looking at such categories, either to recover the facts that led us to the crisis, or to imagine a world outside of patriarchy. In the first sections of the text, the relationship between climate emergency and intersectionality is deepened. Then, mobility is presented as the social sphere in which conflicts and assemblages interfere in collective life, the car being the symbol of a certain masculinity. In the final part, the new activisms of mobility, especially those using the arts, are portrayed as political strategies that question contemporary ways of life, questioning the certainty we had about the future and pointing to ways to build the future. ordinary.