Martina Angela Caretta (She/Her)

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"I am a feminist geographer based in the Global North doing mostly research in the Global South on water, climate change adaptation, gender"

"My lived experience is multilanguage, international and gendered"

"I am committed to gender equality and allyship with like-minded women to lift each other up"

Water Experience

I am a feminist geographer researching climate change induced water scarcity. I study differentiated vulnerabilities among women and minorities and how these groups adapt to climate change based on their local knowledge and Indigenous knowledge. I have also researched the role that migration and conflict play in (mal)adapting to water insecurity. Climate change mitigation has and will have a considerable water footprint, which in itself is gendered. Thus, my interest in extractivism, which many technological fixes to climate change rely upon, and particularly on its unpaid care and resistance dimensions. I have conducted research in Kenya, Tanzania, Ecuador,Venezuela and Appalachia in the USA. In 2023 I am starting projects in Skåne and Ecuador. My ethical standpoint as a feminist geographer is grounded on the importance of participatory and decolonizing research methodologies, which demand the sharing of research results with participating communities. Accordingly, I have disseminated my research in different formats e.g. workshops with research participants and booklets in local languages. I served as Coordinating Lead Author of the 2022 6th United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report. I led the chapter on Water in the 2nd Working Group on Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation. I am also interested in the neoliberal turn of academia and its consequences for early- career female faculty and researchers. I am a member of the International Geographical Union Gender Commission Steering Committee. https://www.keg.lu.se/en/martina-angela-caretta

Opportunities of Interest

• Speaking engagements (e.g., conference panels, keynote addresses)
• Public outreach (e.g., media interviews, podcasts)
• Consulting (e.g., government, industry, not-for-profit sector)
• Research (e.g., academic, not-for-profit, government)