II Seminar Geography and Gender Group course 2023-24

Next Friday, December 15, the second Seminar of the Geography and Gender Group of the academic year 2023-2024 will take place.

The following researchers will speak:

Amalia Calderon Argelich, researcher at the Barcelona Laboratory for Urban and Environmental Justice and Sustainability and the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB).

"The green city from an environmental justice and gender perspective: case study of Barcelona".

While global initiatives promote urban greening as part of sustainable city agendas, there is a lack of critical analysis on how Urban Green Infrastructure planning relates to environmental, social and gender inequalities. Through two different studies, this research aims to contribute to a more inclusive and fair approach to urban green to create more equitable and sustainable urban environments with a gender perspective.

In the first study, gender inequalities have been a specific dimension particularly overlooked in urban greenery planning. Through an evaluation of urban greening plans and projects at the local level, we identified how gender and social equity issues are being taken into account in the design and implementation of green spaces in the city of Barcelona. In the second study, the COVID-19 pandemic has generated changes on the use of public space, intersectionally affecting female neighbors in Barcelona neighborhoods. It will show the changes related to the use and perception of public green and blue spaces by women and non-binary people throughout the pandemic in the neighborhoods of Sant Antoni and La Barceloneta, within the context of gentrification and touristification processes.

Nicole Chávez González, doctoral candidate of the PhD in Gender Studies at UAB and the PhD in Sociology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She will present the objectives and approach of her research.

The organized activity is linked to the PhD in Geography.