Energy Poverty Among Women in Jamaica's Low-Income Communities
暫譯: 牙買加低收入社區女性的能源貧困
Walters, Shinique
- 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
- 出版日期: 2025-06-01
- 售價: $2,040
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,938
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 151
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 3031890787
- ISBN-13: 9783031890789
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This Palgrave Pivot investigates energy poverty in Jamaica, which is a growing problem that affects the mental, physical, and financial health of individuals, families, and communities, and its specific impact on women. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, this study demonstrates the shared relationship between energy development and economic development. It argues that the development of the energy sector has not been a gender-neutral process and has evolved and transitioned within the context of the global political economy, which has been irrevocably shaped and impacted by the lack of government regulation, an increase in efforts at privatization, and the effects of liberalization in terms of the development. Specifically, it shows that more often than not women bear the burden of sourcing, collecting, and using energy for household activities, agriculture, and income-generating tasks. As such, women are affected by energy poverty in many ways, including but not limited to time burdens and drudgery, health issues and physical burdens, as well as the issues that arise due to restrictions on information. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in gender studies, global development, economics, and politics, as well as policymakers and activists dedicated to gender equality and energy justice.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本 Palgrave Pivot 探討了牙買加的能源貧困問題，這是一個日益嚴重的問題，影響著個人、家庭和社區的心理、身體及財務健康，特別是對女性的影響。通過定量和定性的方法，本研究展示了能源發展與經濟發展之間的共同關係。它主張能源部門的發展並非一個性別中立的過程，而是在全球政治經濟的背景下演變和過渡，這一過程不可逆轉地受到政府監管缺失、私有化努力增加以及自由化對發展影響的塑造。具體而言，研究顯示，女性往往承擔著為家庭活動、農業和創收任務尋找、收集和使用能源的負擔。因此，女性在多方面受到能源貧困的影響，包括但不限於時間負擔和繁重的勞作、健康問題和身體負擔，以及因信息限制而產生的問題。本書將吸引性別研究、全球發展、經濟學和政治學的學生和學者，以及致力於性別平等和能源正義的政策制定者和活動家。
作者簡介
Shinique Walters has a PhD from the Department of Government, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. She obtained a Masters in Gender and Development Studies and a BSC degree in International Relations (major) Culture Studies and Political Science (minors). She has worked in the areas of Project Management, Institutional Research, Monitoring and Evaluation, Gender Studies and Community Development. She is a Lecturer with the Department of Government, Research Fellow at the Centre for Leadership and Governance, at the University of the West Indies, Mona. She has worked on a number of International, Regional and Local projects that have contributed to both local and regional development. She has also published a book, several reports and academic papers.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Shinique Walters 擁有西印度大學摩納校區社會科學院政府系的博士學位。她獲得了性別與發展研究的碩士學位，以及國際關係（主修）文化研究和政治學（副修）的學士學位。她在專案管理、機構研究、監測與評估、性別研究和社區發展等領域工作過。她是西印度大學摩納校區政府系的講師，並擔任領導與治理中心的研究員。她參與了多個國際、區域和地方專案，對當地和區域發展做出了貢獻。她還出版了一本書、幾份報告和學術論文。
