ABSTRACT
In the concluding chapter, the editors write about the critical juncture at which this book was published. They reflect on the period of optimism in which a number of feminist politicians and practitioners have been influential in the industrialised world regarding measures to address the climate crisis and social injustice, and which inspired the book in its early stages. However, they also note that the current shift to autocratic and right-wing leaders and policies – appealing to popular fears and concerns (hence frequently termed ‘populist’), is threatening some of the modest gains by which feminist approaches have begun to address the climate crisis, as part of a wider polycrisis of environmental destruction and social injustice. The chapter reviews the achievements documented in the chapters and interviews, within the broader global governance of climate change, and concludes that nurturing the smaller-scale approaches and opportunities to insert what can collectively be termed feminist approaches to dealing with the climate crisis is an important antidote, and alternative-in-waiting, to the current petro-masculinist dominance.
