Women’s experiences of environmental harm in Colombia: learning from black, decolonial and indigenous communitarian feminisms

This chapter interrogates the gendered impacts of environmental harm in Colombia. Following intersectional theory as developed by Crenshaw(1989), we focus on Colombia’s Indigenous and Afro-descendent communities, who are placed in a particularly disadvantaged position due to both gendered and ethnoracialised systems of oppression (Tovar-Restrepo and Irazábal,2014). To do so, we bring green criminology into conversation with the decolonial, Black and Indigenous feminism that has emerged from across the Americas as a way of exposing the connections between gendered harms and structural violence. In doing so, we wish to highlight how platforming and learning from this feminist scholarship and activism can lead to a more nuanced understanding of environmental harm and its legacies in Colombia.