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In this chapter, the relationship between gender, violence and the law is used as a feminist tool to interrogate environmental insecurity in the context of the climate emergency. The chapter juxtaposes the environmental degradation in Ukraine, caused by ongoing Russian aggression, with the legacy of nuclear testing in Oceania. A plural feminist analysis shifts the analysis away from a focus on gendered bodies to gendered laws and legal relations. The shift in feminist legal methodologies illuminates a need for an encounter with everyday and enduring violence to address environmental insecurity with attentiveness to extractive, military and colonial violence. As such, the chapter demonstrates the enduring complexities of harm that extend from the destruction of the environment, in peace time and war, as well as the destruction of livelihoods, and the impact on the everyday and on knowledge systems.
Author(s): Heathcote G
Editor(s): Nikki Godden-Rasul; Sidonia Lucia Kula
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: In Press
Book Title: Research Handbook on Gender, Violence and Law
Year: 2025
Acceptance date: 22/09/2025
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
