Spatializing women's everyday access to energy : an intra-urban comparison of the gender-energy nexus in Lahore, Pakistan
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article Jan 2025 ; 22 pages
Aut. Rihab Khalid & Hadia Majid & Charlotte Lemanski & Rabia Saeed & Alaiba Faheem
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This article contributes to the limited literature on low- income urban women’s lived experiences and everyday energy practices. Using a mixed- methods approach that combines 424 questionnaire surveys and 21 semi- structured interviews with low- income women across five case study sites in Lahore, it investigates women’s energy access and use in domestic and open/public spaces, and workplaces. It demonstrates how women’s peripheralized energy access is both spatially defined (e.g. in the heterogeneity of infrastructure available in peripheral neighbourhoods and in relation to their spatial proximity to urban cores) and socially contingent on their intersectional identities. The intra- urban comparison reveals the complex gendered energy practices and women’s subjective experiences of socio- material exclusion, underscoring the importance of moving beyond simplistic private/ public dichotomies and instead adopting an intersectional lens in spatializing the gender energy nexus when studying urban peripheries.
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