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This book is based on the Symposium ‘Engendering the Energy Transition’ which was held in November 2016 organised by the Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability (CSTM) of the University of Twente, the Netherlands. The participants of the symposium represented the multidisciplinarity of the gender-energy nexus and included researchers, policymakers and practitioners, not all of whom had backgrounds in either energy or gender. This multidisciplinary approach is reflected in the contributions of the nine chapters in this book which examine the issue of gender in a range of different contexts, not all of which are directly related to energy. Each chapter is accompanied by a reflection from a discussant from a different field. The book finishes with four reflections from the perspectives of practice, policy and academia about the research presented which help embeding the book in political, societal, economic and scientific debates.
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We use the concepts of ‘Global South and Global North’ in preference to developing and developed countries. All countries are developing since all are subject to process of change. Nevertheless in academic discourses a universal definition of Global South and Global North is elusive, evolving and contested (for an overview see Clarke 2018). Here we use the concepts not used in a strict geographic sense but in a political economy sense of large disparities in wealth and political instability. There are pockets of the Global North in the South and vice versa.
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Clancy, J., Özerol, G., Mohlakoana, N., Feenstra, M., Sol Cueva, L. (2020). Engendering the Energy Transition: Setting the Scene. In: Clancy, J., Özerol, G., Mohlakoana, N., Feenstra, M., Sol Cueva, L. (eds) Engendering the Energy Transition. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43513-4_1
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