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Sustainable energy for all or sustainable energy for men? Gender and the construction of identity within climate technology entrepreneurship in Kenya

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  • Mipsie Marshall

    (SPRU (Science Policy Research Unit), School of Business, Management and Economics, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9SL, UK)

  • David Ockwell

    (STEPS Centre (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability), Department of Geography, School of Global Studies, and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QJ, UK)

  • Rob Byrne

    (STEPS Centre, SPRU, School of Business, Management and Economics, and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9SL, UK)

Abstract

As international climate and development policy and funding efforts accelerate, this article articulates an urgent new research agenda aimed at redressing the existing failure of policy and research to attend to gender in relation to climate mitigation (as opposed to adaptation). Focusing on the transfer and uptake of low carbon energy technologies, including a review of the literature on women and entrepreneurship and critical discourse analysis of the treatment of climate technology entrepreneurs by infoDev (World Bank) in Kenya, the prevalence of private sector entrepreneurial approaches to climate and development policy and practice in this field is demonstrated to be reinforcing gendered power imbalances.

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  • Mipsie Marshall & David Ockwell & Rob Byrne, 2017. "Sustainable energy for all or sustainable energy for men? Gender and the construction of identity within climate technology entrepreneurship in Kenya," Progress in Development Studies, , vol. 17(2), pages 148-172, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:prodev:v:17:y:2017:i:2:p:148-172
    DOI: 10.1177/1464993416688830
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