Caring for energy, energy to care: Exploring the energy-care nexus through examples from Sweden and India
Other text in scientific journal, 2023

As the climate crisis continues to grow, there is an increasing focus both in research and policy spaces on the need and urgency of energy transitions. In this perspective, we urge scholars, policymakers and social movements to recognize the ways that care work and practices of care are intersecting with everyday experiences of energy use. Through case studies from India and Sweden, we depict how care activities and energy use intertwine in people's daily lives in ways that are often deeply gendered. These two settings serve to illustrate our argument that energy and care are and must be deeply interlinked, in two main directions: energy as enabler or disabler of care work, and care work as shaping demands on energy access. To ensure a just energy transition where care is enabled and fairly shared, care must be an inherent part of energy transition analyses.

Gender

Energy transition

Energy

Sufficiency

Social practice

Care

Author

Angelica Wågström

Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Science, Technology and Society

Kavya Michael

Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Environmental Systems Analysis

Energy Research and Social Science

22146296 (ISSN)

Vol. 99 103042

Subject Categories

Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy

Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified

Social Work

DOI

10.1016/j.erss.2023.103042

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4/13/2023