Gender and Precarity at the Energy Frontier

能源前沿的性别与不稳定

• 批准号: EP/Z000661/1
• 负责人: Saska Petrova
• 金额: $ 221.06万
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FZ000661%2F1
• 关键词: Gender; Precarity; Energy; Frontier

This project aims to generate novel insights into the social, spatial and political inequalities that underpin energy-related injustices and struggles, with a geographical focus on the Western Balkans. It does so by uncovering the relationships between gender and energy poverty - a condition characterized by the inability to secure adequate levels of energy services in the home. GENERATE posits that gendered experiences and contestations of energy poverty represent a form of precarity, and as such shape energy frontiers - understood as marginal(ized) sites of encounter between different forms of energy production and consumption. In foregrounding hitherto 'hidden' processes relating to, and emanating from, the domestic domain, the project seeks to transform understandings of energy circulations in society more broadly.To date, work on the gender dimensions of energy poverty has tended to focus on the Global South, alongside treating the home and household in descriptive and monolithic terms. Very little is known how geographically and politically peripheral forms of energy use across the Global North and East both shape, and are shaped by, precarious practice. GENERATE responds to these challenges by developing a conceptual framework that places the homes and communities at the heart of the energy frontier. It analyses statistical data on energy and gender at multiple levels, in addition to developing an in-depth comparative case study approach in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. This includes a combination of household and institutional ethnographies, as well as a social innovation labs approach. Given the highly topical nature of energy poverty alleviation efforts in Europe and the world - not the least due to the rising imperatives of climate change and social inequality - the project is expected to result in policy-relevant insights relevant to the work of multiple global, national and local organizations.

该项目旨在对社会、空间和政治不平等产生新的见解，这些不平等是与能源有关的不公正和斗争的基础，其地理重点是西巴尔干地区。它通过揭示性别与能源贫困之间的关系来做到这一点-能源贫困的特点是无法在家庭中获得足够水平的能源服务。GENERATE认为，能源贫困的性别经历和挑战是一种不稳定的形式，因此形成了能源边界-被理解为不同形式的能源生产和消费之间的边缘化相遇点。该项目突出了迄今为止与家庭领域有关并源于家庭领域的“隐藏”过程，力求更广泛地改变对社会能源流通的理解。迄今为止，关于能源贫困的性别层面的工作往往侧重于全球南方，同时以描述性和整体性的方式对待家庭和住户。很少有人知道全球北部和东部的地理和政治边缘形式的能源使用如何塑造不稳定的实践，以及如何被不稳定的实践所塑造。GENERATE通过开发一个概念框架来应对这些挑战，该框架将家庭和社区置于能源前沿的核心。它分析了多个层面的能源和性别统计数据，并在阿尔巴尼亚、波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那、科索沃、北马其顿、黑山和塞尔维亚制定了深入的比较案例研究方法。这包括家庭和机构民族志的结合，以及社会创新实验室的方法。鉴于欧洲和全世界能源扶贫工作的高度专题性-尤其是由于气候变化和社会不平等日益紧迫-预计该项目将产生与多个全球、国家和地方组织的工作相关的政策性见解。