Anthropologist, IRPPS Researcher
She collaborates on the European project gEneSys – Transforming Gendered Interrelations of Power and Inequalities in Transition Pathways to Sustainable Energy Systems, focusing on the social and gender aspects of the energy transition.
Rome
cloe.mirenda@irpps.cnr.it
She previously earned a PhD in Sustainability Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), focusing on climate change vulnerability and gender inequalities. At this university, she was a member of the research project “Threats and vulnerability in the Mexican rural world: loss of agrobiodiversity and seeds, youth migration, and climate change.”
As a member of the Italian Ethnological Mission in Mexico, she specialized in medical anthropology, working on the relationship between domestic violence and health services in the State of Chiapas. She currently conducts research on the gender dimension of sustainability, particularly regarding climate change and energy transition.
She has collaborated with and provided consultancy for various foundations, associations, and cooperatives in Italy and several Latin American countries.
Mirenda C. and Lazos Chavero E., “Gender Inequity Related to Climate Risks: cultural vulnerabilities as obstacles to sustainability in rural communities of Mexico”, in Skjerven A. and Fordham M. (eds.), Gender and Sustainable Development Goals: Infrastructure, Empowerment and Education, ISDRS International Sustainable Development Research Society series, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, London, 2023.
Mirenda C., “De la vulnerabilidad a la creación de capacidades frente a la crisis climática. Experiencias participativas en clave de gender en la Costa Sur de Jalisco”, in Poma A. and Gravante T., Generando Conciencia sobre el cambio climático. Nuevas miradas desde México, Institute for Social Research, UNAM, Mexico, 2022.
Mirenda C. and Lazos Chavero E., “Cultural vulnerability, risk reduction and gender equity: two coastal communities of Jalisco, Mexico”, Environmental Hazards, 2021. doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2021.1945996
Lazos Chavero E. and Mirenda C., “La seguridad alimentaria en la política mexicana de cambio climático. Desigualdades desde la perspectiva de género e indígena”, in Solorio I. (ed.), México ante la encrucijada de la gobernanza climática, UNAM, Mexico, 2021.
Mirenda C., “Percepciones del cambio climático en perspectiva de género en Jalisco, Mexico”, Letras Verdes. Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Socioambientales, 28, pp. 31-48, 2020. doi.org/10.17141/letrasverdes.28.2020.4307
Mirenda C., “La atmósfera como bien común global: herramientas analíticas para la justicia climática en América Latina”, in Lazos Chavero E. (ed.), Retos Latinoamericanos en la lucha por los comunes. Historias a compartir, CLACSO, Buenos Aires, pp. 185-206, 2020.
Mirenda C., Lazos Chavero E., “Miradas críticas de los paradigmas normativos de adaptación y resiliencia en los discursos de cambio climático”, in Avzaradel P. C. S., Parola G. (eds.), Cambios Climáticos, Tratados Ambientales, Constituciones y Derechos Humanos, Multifoco, Brazil, 2018.
