Ensuring justice through good practice: Establishing the context for change across organisational scales

The chapter examines how Swedish policymaking has addressed gender and power in environmental and climate initiatives in relation to criteria for justice considered vital by feminist research addressing structural inequalities, such as ownership of land, collective organising as well as attention to intersecting dimensions of power, such as ethnicity, race, residence, age. I do so by studying ‘good practices on gender-equality’ by focusing on organisations in Sweden that have sought to work towards gender-equality in relation to the environment and climate various ways. Given those cases, I argue that such projects on gender mainstreaming (albeit depoliticised) can contribute to making a space for, although not necessarily bring about, change. By making dissonances apparent as well as providing a platform, gender mainstreaming projects can be a vital piece of the puzzle for establishing a context for change.