Following a preparatory workshop at Radio Freirad in July 2024, UniNEtZ representatives explored, across four episodes of 25 minutes each, the question of what gender equality has to do with sustainable development — as researchers at the intersection of Sustainability Studies and Gender Studies. The aim was to explore the analytical added value that a feminist engagement with sustainability topics offers. The project was developed under the leadership of UniNEtZ SDG 5 (Gender Equality).

Episode 1, "Leave no one behind!", shows that the practice, common in feminist contexts, of raising awareness of one's own position within societal power structures helps to move away from generalising assumptions and to meet the complex problems of our time with appropriate complexity. Episode 2, "Who cares? Climate, care and gender in capitalism", which was created in collaboration between UniNEtZ SDG 13 (Climate Action) and SDG 5, works out the role that gender plays in the climate and care crisis, and how this so-called gendering is connected to the currently dominant capitalist economic system. Episode 3, "Undone science", deals with education for sustainable development (ESD) and uses the example of menstruation to show how ignoring the factor of gender in science leads to the gender data gap and, ultimately, endangers health. Episode 4, "Dreaming big", encourages listeners in a hopeful way to imagine feminist sustainability utopias — in an ecological, economic and social sense — and concludes deliberately multilingually: through the global lingua franca of English in its various varieties, and Slovenian, which is one of the protected minority languages in Austria.

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