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Recordings of EnGRG Conferences, Workshops and Seminars

Toward Feminist Energy Systems: Why Adding Women and Solar Panels Isn't Enough

01:23:20

Energy Geographies Research Group

Toward Feminist Energy Systems: Why Adding Women and Solar Panels Isn't Enough

Speakers: Shannon Elizabeth Bell (Virginia Tech), Christine Labuski (Virginia Tech), Cara Daggett (Virginia Tech) Part of the EnGRG's 'Energy, Gender, Space' webinar series 2021/22.

Feminist Digital Natures and Energy Relations - Prof. Ingrid Nelson

01:18:52

Energy Geographies Research Group

Feminist Digital Natures and Energy Relations - Prof. Ingrid Nelson

Webinar with Professor Ingrid Nelson (University of Vermont), as part of our 2022 Energy, Gender, Space series. Recorded 18th March 2022. In this talk, Ingrid introduces an emerging feminist digital natures (FDN) approach (in collaboration with Roberta Hawkins and Leah Govia), connecting feminist digital geographies, feminist political ecology and digital natures research. Drawing from multi-sited event ethnography and automethods, she examines energy transition politics in university campus sustainability contexts, and the kinds of questions regarding embodiment, labour and emotion that come out of thinking with FDN. Please note, this webinar was recorded during the Coronavirus pandemic, whilst colleagues were working from home. Part of the video has been edited to protect the identities of participants' children.

The Nexus of Gendered Practices, Energy, and Space Use

01:28:04

Energy Geographies Research Group

The Nexus of Gendered Practices, Energy, and Space Use

Talk by Rihab Khalid and Maiss Razem (Cambridge University) as part of the 2021-22 Energy, Gender, Space webinar series - a collaboration between the Energy Geographies Research Group and the Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group. The nexus of gendered domestic practices, energy and space use remains under-researched in energy studies, particularly in the Global South. Our study addresses this gap by taking a gendered practice-theoretical approach to investigate women’s differential energy and space use in domestic practices. Through a qualitative comparative analysis of middleclass housing in Lahore, Pakistan and Amman, Jordan, we show that energy and space use are implicated in the gendering of domestic practices in different ways. The study highlights the limitations of current gender-neutral and gender-binary approaches in housing and energy and calls for greater socio-cultural understanding of gender relations and intersectional agencies for improved equity and sustainability.

Fighting for the River: Women's Resistance against Hydroelectric Power Plants in Turkey

01:21:23

Energy Geographies Research Group

Fighting for the River: Women's Resistance against Hydroelectric Power Plants in Turkey

Talk by Özge Yaka (Potsdam University) as part of the 2021-22 Energy, Gender, Space webinar series - a collaboration between the Energy Geographies Research Group and the Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group. Building on ethnographic work on local community movements against private, small-scale, run-of-the-river hydropower plants in three different regions of Turkey, this paper introduces a body-centered approach to explore the dynamics of women’s committed activism in the context of anti-hydropower movement. The paper shifts the focus to the lived bodies of women and their connection to the living environments, without falling back into essentialist conceptions of gender. In doing so, it employs in-depth ethnographic data to discuss the centrality of corporeal connections with river waters in shaping women’s political agency against hydropower.

The Infrastructural Politics of Energy and Gender Injustices: Norms, Expectations and Ruptures

01:30:16

Energy Geographies Research Group

The Infrastructural Politics of Energy and Gender Injustices: Norms, Expectations and Ruptures

Webinar from Saska Petrova (University of Manchester) and Neil Simcock (Liverpool John Moores University). This is part of the 2021-22 Energy, Gender and Space webinar series, a collaboration between the Energy Geographies Research Group and the Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group.

Reframing Power and Gender Struggles in Energy Projects as Territoriality and Place-Making

01:10:48

Energy Geographies Research Group

Reframing Power and Gender Struggles in Energy Projects as Territoriality and Place-Making

This webinar provides theoretical and empirical contributions on how the territoriality of small-scale renewable electricity systems (RES) can orchestrate gendered land struggles as well as opportunities for entrepreneurship in local spaces. Drawing on empirical insights from East Africa and using a feminist geography approach Helene Ahlborg (Chalmers University) and Olufalahan Osunmuyiwa (Chalmers University) demonstrate how energy projects create new territories around rivers and power lines, and how local businesses develop or change their production processes through access to RES.

Nostalgic Masculinities in the Decline of Coal and Queer Futures in the Appalachian Coalfield

01:09:26

Energy Geographies Research Group

Nostalgic Masculinities in the Decline of Coal and Queer Futures in the Appalachian Coalfield

Webinar from Gabe Schwarzman (University of California) as part of the 'Energy, Gender and Space' series - a collaboration between the RGS Energy Geographies Research Group and the Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group.

UK Energy Research and the Gendered Institution

01:16:40

Energy Geographies Research Group

UK Energy Research and the Gendered Institution

Meeting the challenge of decarbonising energy systems will require the potential and expertise of all energy researchers to be mobilised, but, despite various initiatives to improve diversity, women remain significantly under-represented. In this webinar Jess Britton (University of Edinburgh) presents qualitative and quantitative analysis of gender balance in the UK energy research community, explore some of the structural and cultural drivers to the under-representation of women and reflect on opportunities for change.

Energy, Technology and Gendered Household Practices

01:24:51

Energy Geographies Research Group

Energy, Technology and Gendered Household Practices

Webinar with Kirsten Gram-Hanssen (Aalborg University), Line Valdorff Madsen (Aalborg University), Line Kryger Aagard (Aalborg University) and Aggeliki Aggeli (Aalborg University). In this talk we will present perspectives and results from ongoing research in our research group Sustainable Cities and Everyday Practices. We take the starting point that household practices are gendered in fluid ways. Thus, to make effective energy policy targeted households, as well as to avoid unintended consequences for gender equality following from energy policy, gender needs to be understood and included. With the transitions towards renewable fluctuating energy, the timing and control of energy consumption becomes still more important and smart home technology is often promoted as a solution for this. Our research is thus especially interested in how emerging technologies take part in transforming gender and everyday practices.

Conference Papers

Downloads of keynotes and papers from our conferences and events.

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Postgraduate & Early Career Researcher Conference
2015

Keynote

From Academia to Operations

Jacqui Cotton

Research Scientist, Policy, Strategy and Investment R&D Theme Manager

The Environment Agency

Keynote

Beyond Academia: Researching for Impact

A Third Sector Perspective

Helen Stockton

Senior Research and Policy Officer

National Energy Action

Keynote

Energy Geographies: Agendas for the 21st Century

Stewart Barr

Professor of Human Geography

University of Exeter

Conference Paper

Enacting Energy Justice? Community Energy and the (Re)-Distribution of Power: Evidence from a Welsh Case Study

Alister Forman

Cardiff University

Conference Paper

Low Carbon Transition and the Role of Social Enterprise

Joanne Hillman

Liverpool John Moores University

Conference Paper

Foucault’s Archaeology of Knowledge as a Framework to Explore the EU’s Arctic Policy:

“Geographies of Carbon” as a Construction of Arctic Space?

Michael Laiho

Durham University

Conference Paper

The Sociotechnical Transition to Renewable Energy:

A Case Study of the Coire Glas Pumped Hydro Scheme

Fiona Munro

University of Glasgow

Conference Paper

Investigating the Potential of Technically Optimising the Interregional Spatial Allocation of Wind and Solar PV Capacity in the EU

Marit Marsh Stromberg

Birkbeck College

Conference Paper

Whose Community is it Anyway?

Bregje van Veelen

University of Edinburgh