Mobilising political intersectionality in Czechia’s climate movement: Opportunities and pitfalls of coalition building in a post-socialist semi-periphery

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0966369X.2025.2513070" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0966369X.2025.2513070</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2025.2513070" target="_blank" >10.1080/0966369X.2025.2513070</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Mobilising political intersectionality in Czechia’s climate movement: Opportunities and pitfalls of coalition building in a post-socialist semi-periphery

Original language description

Political intersectionality is now increasingly mobilised by social movements and their coalitions advocating for climate justice in different contexts around the world. Employing feminist action research, we explore (1) individual, (2) organisational and (3) societal levels of political intersectionality in the Czech climate movement. Our focus on spatiotemporal factors reveals the opportunities and pitfalls of intersectional coalition building in a post-socialist semi-periphery. In a societal context distorted by a long history of climate scepticism, depoliticised interpretations of socioeconomic grievances and persistently large gender inequalities, recent experiments with political intersectionality in the Czech climate movement have the potential to influence public debates and climate action. We show that coalition building in the movement is currently complicated by internal inequalities between grassroots movements and mainstream NGOs. Their different approaches to intersectionality have led to the reproduction of techno-managerial approaches to climate change that obscure a systemic critique of oppressive hegemonic forces while decreasing the visibility and interests of women and other marginalised groups of people.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2026

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Gender Place and Culture

ISSN

0966-369X

e-ISSN

1360-0524

Volume of the periodical

33

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

332-352

UT code for WoS article

001507329400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105007683500