Feminist legal methods and environmental chronic emergencies: challenging the anthropocentric and androcentric international legal system

The scope of the chapter is to provide the theoretical and methodological foundation of the project. The concept of ECEs derives from the innovative idea of slow violence (Rob Nixon) and elaborates further the concept of slow-onset events to appreciate situational vulnerabilities and the disproportionate impact of these emergencies on women and girls. The project adopts a feminist method of analysis to challenge international law as it stands, highlight patterns of discrimination and address inequalities. This chapter also contributes to revitalizing ecofeminism, seeing in it its disruptive effect on monolithic categories of international law.