Gender and Climate Justice

Authors

  • Lori Lee Oates
  • Sritama Chatterjee

Author Biographies

  • Lori Lee Oates

    Lori Lee Oates is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her PhD is in global and imperial history from the University of Exeter. Lori Lee holds a SSHRC Insight Development Grant to pursue a project entitled Cursed: How the Resource Curse Manifests in Newfoundland and Labrador. She has been a contributor to the CBC, The Globe and Mail, Canada’s National Observer, and The Hill Times. Lori Lee has also advised national environmental groups on the political economy of climate change and a just transition off fossil fuels.

  • Sritama Chatterjee

    Sritama Chatterjee is a literary and cultural theorist of the Indian Ocean World. She works at the intersections of Postcolonial Studies, Indian Ocean Studies, Environmental Humanities, and Feminist Studies. Her dissertation project titled “Ordinary Environments and Aesthetics in Contemporary Indian Ocean Archipelagic Writing” has been awarded an Andrew Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from the graduate school for outstanding research and scholarly excellence.

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2025-06-13

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Vol. 46 (2025): Early View: Gender and Climate Justice

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