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Gender Justice in the Energy Transition Era:
Exploring Gender and Technology
in the Extractives Sector
Alaka Lugonzo and Kennedy Chege
Video interview by the author discussing this book chapter can be accessed at,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcIIxucbDOg&t=851s. Last accessed on 1st
September 2020.
12.1 Introduction
Although the energy industry is predominantly thought to refer to the
electrical power sector (i.e. sources of electricity, electricity generation,
distribution, etc.), it is an all-encompassing term that comprises different
other industries, including the extractives sectors, being the mining and
minerals sectors. Oil and gas resources, for example, are components of
A. Lugonzo (B)
University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
K. Chege
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
e-mail: Kennedy.chege@uct.ac.za
© The Author(s) 2021
V. R. Nalule (ed.), Energy Transitions and the Future
of the African Energy Sector,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56849-8_12
371
Gender Justice in the Energy Transition Era:
Exploring Gender and Technology
in the Extractives Sector
Alaka Lugonzo and Kennedy Chege
Video interview by the author discussing this book chapter can be accessed at,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcIIxucbDOg&t=851s. Last accessed on 1st
September 2020.
12.1 Introduction
Although the energy industry is predominantly thought to refer to the
electrical power sector (i.e. sources of electricity, electricity generation,
distribution, etc.), it is an all-encompassing term that comprises different
other industries, including the extractives sectors, being the mining and
minerals sectors. Oil and gas resources, for example, are components of
A. Lugonzo (B)
University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
K. Chege
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
e-mail: Kennedy.chege@uct.ac.za
© The Author(s) 2021
V. R. Nalule (ed.), Energy Transitions and the Future
of the African Energy Sector,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56849-8_12
371