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.

该项目旨在为基于能源相关的不公正和斗争的社会，空间和政治不平等而产生新颖的见解，并以地理位置着眼于西巴尔干。它通过发现性别和能源贫困之间的关系来做到这一点 - 这种条件是无法确保家庭中足够水平的能源服务。产生的假设是，性别贫困的性别经验和竞争代表了一种不稳定的形式，因此形成了能量前沿 - 被理解为不同形式的能源生产和消费之间的边际（IZED）地点。在迄今与国内领域有关的“隐藏”过程中，该项目试图更广泛地改变对社会能量循环的理解。到目前为止，在能源贫困的性别方面的工作倾向于将重点放在全球南方，并以描述性和单声道的描述性和家庭对待。鲜为人知的是，在整个全球北部和东方的地理和政治外围的能源使用形式如何形成，并且是由不稳定的实践所塑造的。通过开发一个概念框架来应对这些挑战，从而将房屋和社区置于能源边界的核心。除了在阿尔巴尼亚，波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那，科索沃，北马其顿，马其顿，黑山和塞尔维亚开发深入的比较案例研究方法外，还分析了多个级别的能量和性别的统计数据。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。鉴于能源贫困在欧洲和世界的高度主题性质 - 尤其是由于气候变化和社会不平等的不断增长，预计该项目将导致与多个全球，国家和地方组织的工作有关的政策相关的见解。