The global climate crisis calls for transitioning away from fossil fuels towards sustainable energy sources. However, research on energy transitions highlights their disruptive nature and potential to reinforce preexisting injustices, such as gender inequality. Despite recognising gendered impacts, scholarly discussions on the intersection between gender, justice, and energy transitions are still scarce. This thesis contributes to bridging this gap by examining gender justice within energy transitions through an intersectional feminist lens. Drawing upon feminist and sustainability transformations scholarship, I propose a gender-just energy transitions analytical framework and apply it to the Brazilian context. I examine the national level through government documents and women’s perspectives at the civil society level through in-depth interviews. Findings reveal that the energy transition in Brazil lacks significant efforts to foster transformative change in terms of gender equality. There are significant gaps between national strategies and women’s experiences, resulting in disproportionate burdens and limited participation for women, whose marginalisation is further exacerbated based on their intersectional identities. This study highlights the need to integrate recognitional, procedural, and distributional justice principles into energy transition policies to address underlying power asymmetries and advance gender equality instead of deepening gender-based injustices.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-226773 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | Madureira Teles, Lilian |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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