Tournament: NJDDT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Baylor CW | Judge: Ziegler
The affirmative’s conception of energy for the purposes of economic calculation is gendered – assuming that resources that humans use are forms of energy, and not human work itself, contributes to women’s exclusion from the energy policy debate. This assumption precludes effective policymaking and reproduces gender bias within the political sphere.
Cecelski 95 (Elizabeth, worked for more than twenty-five years in problems of energy and developing countries, specializing in energy, poverty and gender issues, energy economist at Resources for the Future, founding member of ENERGIA, the International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy, “From Rio to Beijing: Engendering the energy debate,” Energy Policy, 23(6)
The absence of…more accurately evaluated.
Patriarchy protects the ideological basis for all exploitative relationships – belief in its inevitability will cause extinction.
Nhanenge 7 (Jytte, Masters at University of South Africa, “Ecofeminism: Towards Integrating the Concerns of Women, Poor People and Nature into Development,” paper submitted in part fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of master of arts in the subject Development Studies, http://uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10500/570/dissertation.pdf?sequence=1)
The androcentric premises…126, 128, 130).
The alternative is an ecofeminist embrace of metabolic energy as the starting point for examining energy policy.
We must break free from the dominant energy paradigm which constrains social experience within an instrumental and scientific approach. Embracing ecofeminism means challenging energy production as a social relationship, activating everyday experience and embodied agency as the starting point for change.
Annecke 99 (Wendy Jill, Energy and Development Research Centre (EDRC), University of Cape Town, South Africa, “From the Kitchen to the Boardroom: reflections on power relations in gender and energy practice and policy,” Paper presented at the ‘Workshop on Improving Women’s Access to Energy: Policy, Projects, or the Market?’, held at the University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands on 2-3 November 1999, http://www.energia.org/fileadmin/files/media/reports/DropBox/anneckenov.pdf)
I want to…an energy specialist.