Gender and Precarity at the Energy Frontier

该项目旨在对社会、空间和政治不平等产生新的见解，这些不平等支撑着与能源相关的不公正和斗争，地理重点是西巴尔干地区。它通过揭示性别与能源贫穷之间的关系来做到这一点，能源贫穷的特点是无法在家中获得足够水平的能源服务。GENERATE认为，能源贫困的性别经验和争论代表了一种不稳定的形式，并因此形成了能源前沿——被理解为不同形式的能源生产和消费之间相遇的边缘（化）地点。为了突出迄今为止与国内领域相关的“隐藏”过程，该项目试图更广泛地改变对社会能源循环的理解。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，同时以描述性和单一的术语处理家庭和家庭。很少有人知道，在地理上和政治上，全球北部和东部的能源使用形式是如何形成和被不稳定的实践所塑造的。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。除了在阿尔巴尼亚、波斯尼亚-黑塞哥维那、科索沃、北马其顿、黑山和塞尔维亚制订深入的比较个案研究方法外，还分析了多个级别的能源和性别统计数据。这包括家庭和机构人种学的结合，以及社会创新实验室的方法。考虑到欧洲和世界能源扶贫工作的高度话题性——尤其是由于气候变化和社会不平等日益紧迫——该项目预计将产生与多个全球、国家和地方组织的工作相关的政策相关见解。

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.