Climate Technology, Gender, and Justice

Dr. Tina Sikka is currently a Lecturer in Media and Culture at Newcastle University, UK. Dr. Sikka received her MA in Mass Communication from Carleton University in 2004 and her PhD. in Communication and Culture from York University in 2008. In 2012, she completed a 2-year SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University. In this position, Dr. Sikka worked on an interdisciplinary project applying feminist, critical STS, social justice and risk communication approaches to the study of climate change and climate engineering technologies. She has published extensively on the importance of democratizing technological design as it relates to sustainable energy and climate mitigating technologies in such noted journals as Technology in Society, Communication Review and Critical Discourse Studies.  Dr. Sikka has also published extensively on the subjects of Continental social and political philosophy, political discourse analysis, network neutrality and is currently working on several projects that examine  science and politics of food.

• Introduction.- Chapter One: Geoengineering, Wind Solar Energy, Traditional Environmental Approaches To Gender.- Chapter Two: Feminist Standpoint Theory And Feminist Contextual Empiricism.- Chapter Three: Empirical Adequacy.- Chapter Four: Novelty.- Chapter Five:Ontological Heterogeneity.- Chapter Six: Complexity or Mutuality of Interaction.- Chapter Seven: Applicability to Human Needs.- Conclusion.

“Science, even the physical sciences, is value-laden. This feminist insight epitomizes the approach to examining geoengineering discourse in this brief volume. … Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and professionals.” (S. E. Wiegand, Choice, Vol. 56 (11), July, 2019)