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Gender, Race, and Class in the Comanche County Appliance School - Gender, Race & Class in the Comanche County Appliance School Victoria Plutshack, Ashton Merck, Jonathon Free As part of the educational campaigns of the Rural Electrification Administration in the 1930s and 1940s, home economists trained groups of farm women on the uses of electricity. We analyze one of these training schools in Comanche County, Texas, to understand how race, class, and gender influenced the REA’s educational campaigns. https://www.victoriaplutshack.com/work daily 1.0 2024-07-21 https://www.victoriaplutshack.com/work/gender monthly 0.5 2023-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffceff9486e4572e3826f85/5d7eca3f-52a7-44d9-b4a2-a75bd13286d9/mediocre-studio-vpAS89PyGYI-unsplash.jpg Work - Gender - Issue Paper: Gender, climate finance and inclusive low-carbon transitions $632 billion in climate finance flows into countries, projects and people across the globe. What climate activities it supports and what form it takes will shift the impacts that it has on different genders. This issue paper begins to unpack what we know (and what we don’t) about how climate finance impacts men and women. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffceff9486e4572e3826f85/855f18bc-166f-434c-9eb4-df7dec9f36f1/dibakar-roy-qOMAiez9Tpw-unsplash.jpg Work - Gender - Research agenda for low carbon transitions and gender equity in the Global South: Gender equality and women’s economic empowerment Report on the gendered impacts of LCTs, how gendered decision-making impacts LCT policy, and the role of finance in supporting LCTs alongside gender equality. Part of the Research Agenda for Low Carbon Transition and Gender Equity in the Global South series of papers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffceff9486e4572e3826f85/1611002568541-C7URNCKVKOL0UX4OQWH8/White+Paper+Thumbnail.png Work - Gender - Tired of reading? Rather simply watch our findings? Check out this presentation of “A Virtuous Cycle? Reviewing the evidence on women’s empowerment and energy access, frameworks, metrics and methods.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffceff9486e4572e3826f85/ffa81d0e-e63b-4aed-bb88-9d230d0697ff/Linkages+copy.jpg Work - Gender - Paper: Frameworks, methods and evidence connecting modern domestic energy services and gender empowerment Updated research on the potential synergies and trade-offs between gender equality and access to sustainable energy published in Nature Energy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffceff9486e4572e3826f85/1610998730534-2WE2YR48989ZJJC271PZ/Untitled%2Bdesign.jpg Work - Gender - Project: Political Economy of Gender Mainstreaming in West Africa Ongoing project exploring the implementation of the Policy for Gender Mainstreaming in Energy Access in the Economic Community of West African States. To learn more, please reach out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffceff9486e4572e3826f85/1611002543866-3GKNLD74BFKO9KGMO6O1/SDG57.jpg Work - Gender - Report: A Virtuous Cycle? Reviewing the evidence on women’s empowerment and energy access, frameworks, metrics and methods Summarizing research on the potential synergies and trade-offs between gender equality and access to sustainable energy. https://www.victoriaplutshack.com/work/energy monthly 0.5 2023-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffceff9486e4572e3826f85/1610987466828-GODNC8AEG6GUC2CU9F2A/Minigrid.jpg Work - Energy & Climate - Lessons for Modernizing Energy Access Finance II – Balancing Competition and Subsidy: Assessing Mini-Grid Incentive Programs in sub-Saharan Africa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffceff9486e4572e3826f85/1610416598694-7QGE0WCPOH6W9QN0924A/Microgrid.jpg Work - Energy & Climate - Lessons for Modernizing Energy Access Finance I - What the Electrification Experiences of Seven Countries Tell Us about the Future of Connection Costs, Subsidies, and Integrated Planning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffceff9486e4572e3826f85/99d6c082-a5cb-4f17-9515-cba7f4fbba50/nilotpal-kalita-pJHaHQJ0PPk-unsplash-scaled-e1634933474192-980x551.jpg Work - Energy & Climate - Climate Finance for Just Transitions This paper investigates challenges throughout the international climate finance landscape and recommends pathways for how investments into low- and middle-income countries can more effectively drive low-carbon development. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffceff9486e4572e3826f85/4c57bc17-7446-42a0-902c-6a915392cb52/Shell+report.jpg Work - Energy & Climate - Catalyzing Climate Finance for Low-Carbon Agriculture Enterprises The report gauges the potential contribution to climate adaptation and mitigation of low-carbon agriculture value chains and idenitifies finance vehicles and policy reforms needed to scale interventions in those value chains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffceff9486e4572e3826f85/1610417456118-N3OTIEY42NYXEZSK8VIM/nathana-reboucas-PI-mFu8pDMQ-unsplash.jpg Work - Energy & Climate - Positioned for consensus: Market-based approaches, civil society and the role of the state in Chile's coal phase-out How did the private sector, civil society groups, academics and government actors come together in the lead up to Chile’s voluntary coal retirement plan? This study, part of book led by the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, offers some answers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffceff9486e4572e3826f85/1611001450365-HYFU5E8QNRH99ZU3J3L4/SHS%2BScale.jpg Work - Energy & Climate - New and renewable energy social enterprises accessing government support: Findings from India Exploring the strategies that small and medium scale off-grid solar enterprises in India take towards government programs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffceff9486e4572e3826f85/1611001486924-99TPF0F3YLVXRXA4V3GT/SHS.jpg Work - Energy & Climate - Rural Electrification Policy and Off Grid Solar: Sector Engagement Strategies in India and Beyond Centering the responses of off grid solar businesses to India’s Decentralized Distributed Generation Scheme and the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission. https://www.victoriaplutshack.com/work/history monthly 0.5 2023-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffceff9486e4572e3826f85/1611002618864-4EB4AHTMH5NNWR7NW9VF/Mamer_SI-Image-1.jpg Work - History Project: Learning from the Electric Circus Exploring how REA administrators in the US imagined women would participate in its cooperative-led electrification efforts in the 1930s and 30s. Looking into women's engagement with and resistance to the REA's programming and how technology adoption was ultimately mediated through women's priorities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffceff9486e4572e3826f85/f727e44c-589c-4f1b-b4be-7f39ca492d36/IMG_7559_edit.jpg Work - History Project: Gendering the Electric with The Electrical Age Tracing the changing gender norms in the flagship publication of the British Electrical Association for Women, which ran from 1926 to 1986