@article{jpe 2276, author = {Dalena Tran, Joan Martinez-Alier, Grettel Navas, Sara Mingorria}, title = {Gendered geographies of violence: a multiple case study analysis of murdered women environmental defenders}, volume = {27}, year = {2020}, url = {http://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/id/2276/}, issue = {1}, doi = {10.2458/v27i1.23760}, abstract = {<p>This study illustrates how, despite the diversity of women environmental defenders and their movements around the world, there are near-universal patterns of violence threatening their survival. Violence against women environmental defenders, often perpetrated by government-backed corporations, remains overlooked. Research on this issue importantly contributes to discussions about environmental justice because women defenders make up a large proportion of those at the front lines of ecological distribution conflicts. Through comparative political ecology, this research analyzes cases from the Environmental Justice Atlas, an online open-access inventory of environmental distribution conflicts, in which one or more women were assassinated while fighting a diverse array of extractive and polluting projects. Although the stories showcase a breadth of places, conflicts, social-class backgrounds, and other circumstances between women defenders, most cases featured multinational large-scale extractive companies supported by governments violently targeting women defenders with impunity.</p>}, month = {1}, pages = {1189-1212}, keywords = {comparative political ecology,EJAtlas,women environmental defenders,murder,violence}, issn = {1073-0451}, publisher={University of Arizona Libraries}, journal = {Journal of Political Ecology} }