ABSTRACT

This chapter offers a new apparent decolonial feminist (ADF) rhetoric of risk that promotes a deeper understanding of the interdependencies between local, global, and international risks and across economic, environmental, geopolitical, cultural, and technological risks, makes connections between historical, contemporary, and future risks, and requires responsible and ethical engagement of underrepresented rhetorics and realities of risk. Bringing feminist and decolonial approaches to risk communication allows us to study the nexuses between risk communication and power, global and local systems of oppression, and institutions. The chapter presents an ADF methodology to demonstrate how particular spaces and bodies have been colonized and re-colonized by the management of common topics related to environmental risks. An ADF approach to risk communication recognizes and works to identify and redress how some stakeholders in networks of risk who attempt to navigate systems of institutions and organizations of environmental power have historically been silenced, ignored, put disproportionately at risk.