Projects in progress

Lead Research Organisation: The University of Manchester

The UKRI/ERC consolidator grant ‘GENERATE: Gender and Precarity at the Energy Frontier’ is a 5 year project led by the University of Manchester, UK. The project aims to generate novel insights into the social, spatial and political inequalities that underpin energy-related injustices and struggles, with a geographical focus on the Western Balkans. GENERATE posits that gendered experiences and contestations of energy precarity, and as such shape energy frontiers – understood as marginal(ised) sites of encounter between different forms of energy production and consumption. In foregrounding hitherto ‘hidden’ processes relating to, and emanating from, the domestic domain, the project seeks to transform understandings of energy circulations in society more broadly.

The project will be realised in collaboration with 6 partner organisations including Epoka University in Tirana (Albania), Democracy Plus in Pristina (Kosovo), the Environment Improvement Centre in Belgrade (Serbia), the Centre for Environmental Research and Information Eko-Svest Skopje (North Macedonia), the Centre for Sustainable Energy Transitions in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Eco Team in Podgorica (Montenegro).

More information: https://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/geography/research/projects/generate/