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

Preface
Contents
Women´s Agency in a World of Flux: On Silesian Energy Transition
	Women and Energy Transition in Upper Silesia: An Introduction
	About Silesia: A ``Black Gold´´ Region
	Industrial Silesia and the Green Deal
	A Gender Gap in the Energy Transition Process
	More Theoretical Inspirations
	Women in Silesia: The Structure of the Volume
	Conclusion
	References
Part I
	Ecofeminism and Social Reproduction: Towards Subsistence Economies
		Introduction: Ecofeminism of Subsistence
		Ecofeminist Genealogies
		The Myth of Mother Earth and Catch-Up Development
		Conclusions: Towards Ecofeminist Reproduction of Life
		References
	A Morphogenetic Approach to Social Aspects of Energy: The Case of Coal
		Energy Research and Social Theory
		Distinctive Features of the Morphogenetic Approach
		Coal as a Precondition of Industrial Modernity
		Semi-Social Structures: Material, Technology, Environment
		Morphogenetic Elaboration in the European Coal Heartlands
		Social Structure Conditions: Explicit, Implicit, Latent
		Steps Towards a Comprehensive Research Strategy
		References
	Women Engendering the Just Energy Transition
		Introduction
		The Gender-Energy Nexus: A Policy Perspective
			The Gender-Energy Nexus
			Enabling Conditions to Engender Energy Transition
		Women as Change Agents in the Energy Transition
		Gender Just Energy Transition
		Conclusion
		References
Part II
	Cultural Identity of Upper Silesia. The Difficult Relationship Between National and Regional Culture
		Why the Upper Silesians Could Be Considered as Cultural Minority?
		Historical Background of the Relations Between Regional and National (German and Polish) Culture in Upper Silesia
		Institutional Aspects of Cultural Domination in Upper Silesia
		The Process of Institutionalisation of Regional Consciousness and Its Impact on Inter-Ethnic Relations in the Contemporary Upp...
		Between the ``Open´´ and ``Closed´´ Vision of Regional Culture. Unsolved Dilemmas?
		References
	Restructuring of the Mining Sector in Silesian Voivodship from the Gender Perspective
		Restructuring in the Gender Perspective
		On the Specifics of the Restructuring of Silesian Voivodship
		The Restructuring Policy Towards the Coal Mining Industry and Gender
		On the Effects of Restructuring in the Experience of Women Dismissed from Mining Companies
		Women in the Mine After the Restructuring of Mining
		In Conclusion
		References
	Place of Professional Work in the Life of Silesian Women
		Introduction
		The Concept of Changes in Ronald Inglehart´s Value System: Application to Empirical Research
		The Value of Work and Employee Roles of Silesian Women: Socio-historical Analysis
		Contemporary Silesian Women and Their Professional Work
			Methodological Grounding of Research
			Female Professions: Male Professions. Are They Still Stereotypically Perceived?
			Professional Work of Silesian Women and Income Contributed to the Household
			Work Motivation and Satisfaction
			Socio-occupational Mobility
		Conclusions
		References
	Transformations of Female and Male Models in Post-mining Communities
		Introduction
		Comments on Methodology and Theory
		Reconstructed Femininity
		Modified Traditional Femininity
		Modern Femininity
		Reconstructed Masculinity
		Traditional Masculinity
		Modified Traditional Masculinity
		Modern Masculinity
		Summary
		References
Part III
	Silesian Women´s Situated Identity and the Question of Subjectivity: The Power of the Past and Promise of the Future
		Introduction
		The Historical and Cultural Landscape
		``Situated´´ Subjectivity: Between Tradition and Modernization
		To Be or Not to Be a Silesian
		Time-Pattern of Subjectivity: Positioning Toward the Change
			Position A. The Past: Full Rootedness in the Local (Family) Tradition Grants a Strong Sense of Agency
			Position B. The Present: A Lack of Rootedness in the Local Tradition Limits Access to Many Dimensions of the Social Reality
			Position C. The Future: A Lack of Rootedness in the Local Tradition Lends the Possibility of a Supra-regional Identity
		Conclusion: The Re-imagined Female Community
		References
	Green and Black Silesia: Environmental Awareness of Women in a Coal Mining Region
		Introduction
		Environmental Protection and the Perception of Change
		Green Silesia: Discursive and Practical Environmental Awareness
		Black Silesia: Coal as a Polish Taboo
		Polish Energy Strategy and a (Just) Energy Transition
		Our House Is on Fire: Ecological Feminism Revisited?
		Conclusion
		References
	Heated Attachments to Coal: Everyday Industrial Breadwinning Petro-Masculinity and Domestic Heating in the Silesian Home
		Introduction
		Industrial Breadwinning Petro-Masculinity: Coal´s Historic Enrolment in Patriarchal Domestic Authorities and Affections
		Industrial Breadwinning Petro-Masculinity´s Instability and Decline
		Labours of Dignity and Care: Coal, Coal Stoves, and Protecting Industrial Breadwinning Petro-Masculine Self-Worth
		Conclusion: Anti-Ecological, Industrial Petro-Masculinist Populism to the Rescue
		References
Index