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Despite sharing common interests in being advocates for social change, feminist and environmental geographers have yet to acknowledge interests they share in common. Environmental geographers, particularly those focused on policy and institutional analysis, have not embraced feminist theories or methodologies, while few feminist geographers have engaged issues associated with environmental policy-making. Our purpose is to initiate a dialogue about how linkages might be forged between feminist and environmental geography, particularly among Canadian environmental geographers working on institutional and policy analysis. We begin by illustrating that environmental geographers working on Canadian problems have neglected to introduce gender as an analytical category or feminist conceptual frameworks to guide their research. Second, we identify four feminist research approaches that should also be pursued in environmental geography. Third, we consider examples of how feminist perspectives might be incorporated in three themes of environmental geography: institutional and policy analysis, participatory environmental and management systems and alternative knowledge systems. Fourth, we consider two research frameworks-political ecology and environmental justice-and suggest that these may be useful starting points for integrating feminist analysis into environmental geography. Last, we summarise our suggestions for how future research of feminist and environmental geographers could benefit from a closer association.
Malgre les interets qu'ils partagent en tant que defenseurs du changement social, les geographes feministes et les geographes environnementaux doivent encore admettre qu'ils ont des interets commun. Les geographes environnementaux, en particulier ceux specialises dans l'analyse politique et institutionnelle, n'ont pas integre les theories ou methodologies feministes et peu de geographes feministes ont aborde des questions liees a l'elaboration des politiques environnementales. Notre objectif est d'initier un dialogue sur la maniere dont des liens pourraient etre etablis entre la geographie feministe et la geographie environnementale, plus particulierement parmi les geographes environnementaux canadiens travaillant sur l'analyse des politiques et des institutions. Dans un premier temps, nous illustrons que les geographes environnementaux attaches aux questions canadiennes ont generalement neglige de tenir compte du sexe comme categorie analytique ou cadre conceptuel feministe pour guider leur recherches. Dans un deuxieme temps, nous identifions quatre axes de la recherche feministe qui devraient egalement avoir une place dans la geographie environnementale. Dans une troisieme partie, nous nous interessons a des exemples demontrant comment integrer des approches feministes a trois themes de...