Why is Carbon Free Island Jeju not so carbon-free?: Exploring masculinities in discourse and material reality of a decarbonisation experiment in South Korea
(2024) In Master Thesis Series in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science MESM02 20241LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
- Abstract
- Despite almost 9 years of pushing for sustainable development in the global environmental politics sphere, societies worldwide remain stuck in unsustainable energy cultures. Critical feminist analyses of gendered norms in energy systems offer a path to bring to light the structures of power that keep us stuck. Carbon Free Island Jeju 2030 was a policy experiment announced in 2012 aiming to transition to carbon-free energy and transport sectors by 2030, however, the island has not been able to reach its goals. Through a critical policy ethnography of the CFI 2030 policy, I examine masculinities embedded in it and how they have emerged in the implementation. Although both ecological and ecomodern masculinities were present, ecomodern... (More)
- Despite almost 9 years of pushing for sustainable development in the global environmental politics sphere, societies worldwide remain stuck in unsustainable energy cultures. Critical feminist analyses of gendered norms in energy systems offer a path to bring to light the structures of power that keep us stuck. Carbon Free Island Jeju 2030 was a policy experiment announced in 2012 aiming to transition to carbon-free energy and transport sectors by 2030, however, the island has not been able to reach its goals. Through a critical policy ethnography of the CFI 2030 policy, I examine masculinities embedded in it and how they have emerged in the implementation. Although both ecological and ecomodern masculinities were present, ecomodern dominated. It seems a focus towards green industry growth and reliance on technological solutions has not been enough to overcome the existing dominant structures based on fossil fuels and centralised governance. (Less)
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- author
- Savoy, Brooke Aurora LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- MESM02 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Sustainability Science, energy, ecomodernism, feminism, East Asia
- publication/series
- Master Thesis Series in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science
- report number
- 2024:036
- language
- English
- additional info
- The fieldwork for this thesis was funded by the Right Livelihood Foundation and the Crafoord Foundation.
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- 9155985
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- 2024-05-31 14:35:54
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