ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses gender scholarship in relation to the field of global environmental politics. It briefly outlines Foucault's concept of governmentality. The chapter explores how governmentality has been utilized as a framework for analysing gender and environmental politics. It discusses how gender is constructed in the context of the Rio Earth Summit and Rio+20 respectively. The field of global environmental politics has far from embraced gender and feminist analyses. The handful of feminist scholars who have considered global environmental politics through the application of 'analytical gender' have made a series of important contributions. Governmentality, a term coined by Michel Foucault during his lectures at College de France in 1978 and 1979, has been of interest to feminist and gender studies scholars in part because the concept relates to government beyond but including the state. The environmental governmentality informing and proliferated through discourses of sustainable development set the parameters of what it means to be a good eco-citizen.
