Gender and Energy Transition: Case Studies from the Upper Silesia Coal-mining Region

Table of Contents:

1.    Women's agency in a world of flux: On Silesian energy transition

Katarzyna Iwinska, Xymena Bukowska, Collegium Civitas, Poland

PART I

2.      Ecofeminism and Social Reproduction: Towards Subsistence Economies

Katarzyna Szopa, Silesian University, Poland

1. A morphogenetic approach to social aspects of energy: the case of coal

Martin Durdovic, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia

1. Women engendering the just energy transition

Mariëlle Feenstra, University of Twente, The Netherlands

PART II

5.      Cultural Identity of Upper Silesians. The Difficult Relationship Between National and Regional Culture

Kazimiera Wódz and Jacek Wódz, Silesian University, Poland

6.      Restructuring of the mining sector in the Silesian Province from a gender perspective

Jolanta Klimczak, Kazimiera Wódz, Silesian University, Poland

7.      Place of professional work in the life of Silesian women

Urszula Swadzba, Silesian University, Poland

8.      Transformations of female and male patterns in post-mining communities

Jolanta Klimczak, Silesian University, Poland

PART III

9.      Silesian women's situated identity: the power of the past and a promise of the future

Barbara Markowska, Collegium Civitas, Poland

10.  Silesian women's narratives on the environment and coal

Katarzyna Iwinska, Collegium Civitas, Poland

1. Heated attachments to coal: Everyday breadwinning petro-masculinities and domestic heating in the Silesian home

Irma Allen, KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden