exploring energy poverty and environmental racism
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2018
- Magazine Number
- 5
- Creator
- Fakier, Khayaat
- Thesaurus
- duurzame ontwikkeling, alternatieve technologie, energie, armoede, milieu, racisme, ecofeminisme, Zuid-Afrika
- Description
- This paper argues that the rights of women to be included in decisions about energy use and their experiences with energy use are ignored. Using an eco-feminist perspective this article explores how the rhetoric of ‘renewable energy for the poor’ which bypasses women’s voices and experience in domestic uses of renewable energy result in reverse outcomes of pro-environmental policy for the poor, as well as, for society in general.