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Gender just energy policy : engendering the energy transition in Europe

“…Environmental justice is concerned with the distribution of environmental hazards and access to natural resources, representing distributive and procedural justice concerns (Jenkins 2018). More recently, environmental justice has been complemented with climate justice, in which the connections between climate change and human rights are seen as being central (Willow and Keefer 2015;Fuller and McCauley 2016;Martiskainen et al 2020;Thoyre 2020). Out of these two justice approaches, energy was separated from the wider range of topics concerning the environment and climate change, creating the concept of energy justice in the 2010s (Fuller and McCauley 2016;Jenkins 2018).…”

Energy for empowerment: the role of energy in women’s organising and empowerment in urban and peri-urban South Africa

“…More recently, studies have demonstrated how energy usage and the division of labour are linked in Sweden, through timeuse data (Palm and Ellegård 2011), as well as with emotional labour (feelings of shame, fear and guilt) arising from energy poverty across Europe (Petrova and Simcock 2019). Other studies have highlighted the intersectional and gendered nature of vulnerability to energy poverty in the UK (Robinson 2019), and that environmentally-friendly behaviour can create additional reproductive work for women in the US (Thoyre 2020).…”

“…Indeed, gender is complex and contextual, and several studies complicate this myth by highlighting the role of men in leading fuel collection in Papua New Guinea (Nuberg 2015), Mexico (Troncoso et al 2007), Argentina (Cardoso, Ladio, and Lozada 2012) and Kyrgyzstan (Kim and Standal 2019). From a global North perspective, men have been shown to be more likely to do the time-burdensome labour of researching energy provision options in the US (Thoyre 2020). Writing from a GAD framework, Munien and Ahmed (2012, 121) argue that "a gendered analysis of energy poverty is less about pursuing women and energy strategies as it is about addressing the underlying gender aspects in current household energy practices".…”

“…Daggett (2018) argues that fossil fuels are discursively masculinised in the context of the US, and are linked to, produce and reproduce, hegemonic power. Other studies have indicated that energy infrastructure and technology are attributed masculine identity in European energy cooperatives (Łapniewska 2019), exclude women from the power gained from such structures, and that modern environmentally-friendly technologies, such as solar panels and CFL lightbulbs are considered a masculine domain of knowledge in the UK and Norway, and US respectively (Standal, Talevi, and Westskog 2020;Thoyre 2020). Sovacool et al (2019) document masculinised discourses promoting electric vehicles in several Scandinavian countries, finding that all cars are attributed masculine identities, and linked to qualities such as power and speed (rather than safety).…”

“…Nonetheless, energy as theory was significant for its gendered nature and the status it was afforded and the power gained from it. Indeed, other scholars have explored how energy technologies are masculinised in ways which reproduce gendered power relations (Kim and Standal 2019;Standal, Talevi, and Westskog 2020;Johnson, Gerber, and Muhoza 2019;Thoyre 2020;Sovacool et al 2019). While practices such as cooking and managing household energy were feminised, energy theory and knowledge of technologies was masculinised and held status, whether it was insulation in Hillview 2 or knowledge of nuclear energy as Cindy described above.…”