Gender and Energy Transition

Case Studies from the Upper Silesia Coal-mining Region

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Av Katarzyna Iwińska, Xymena Bukowska, Katarzyna Iwinska, Katarzyna Iwińska, Katarzyna Iwi¿ska

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This volume takes an ecofeminist perspective in analysing societal changes related to energy transition, with a focus on Upper Silesia in Europe, following the closure of coal-mining industries in the region.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-11-03
Mått155 x 235 x 13 mm
Vikt365 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor226
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030784188

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Katarzyna Iwińska is sociologist and Vice-rector for Scientific Research at Collegium Civitas, Warsaw. She worked as expert and research coordinator in international and national projects concerning public participation and energy transition. Her research focuses on environmental sociology, civil society, public perception of energy transition, and decision making processes. She also has broad academic teaching experience – she has published a book “Widening Interdisciplinary Sustainable Education” built on the sustainability case- and project-based teaching methods (Eds. Iwinska, Jones, Kraszewska 2018). Xymena Bukowska is a sociologist and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology, Collegium Civitas, Warsaw. Her research interests include: civil society, democracy and citizenship theory, as well as cultural sociology, political culture and identity in the (late) modern societies – both at national andat local level. Her recently published work is Women’s Silesia: tradition, activity and ecology [Śląsk kobiet: tradycja, aktywność i ekologia], (Eds. Iwińska, Bukowska, 2018).

1. Introduction.- 2. Environment as a feminist issue.- 3. Silesian coal: history of Silesian industrialisation, the emergence of industrial society and its present restructuring.- 4. Silesian modernizations: analysis of the discourses of change.- 5. Coal perception in the region.- 6. Silesian narratives about the energy and ecology.- 7. The changing roles and values of Silesian women.- 8. Silesian women’s identity: the might of myth.- 9. Women's activity: "I" towards the change.- 10. Post-coal Silesia – the emergence of new regional identity.- 11. Upper Silesia: towards a sustainable future?.