Energy Saving and Gender

Dr David Kreps from the University of Salford recently presented a  paper where he examines the concept of eco-masculinities as a philosophical and critical project to understand the links between gendered and pro-environmental behaviour.  The paper looks at the sociology of masculinity, and the post-gendered world to which they both aspire, alongside a brief history of ecofeminism. The last section of the paper considers how these philosophical approaches might impact upon analysis of the DEHEMS project.

For more information see: Kreps, David, “Introducing Eco-Masculinities: How a masculine discursive subject approach to the Individual Differences Theory of Gender and IT impacts an environmental informatics project” (2010). AMCIS 2010 Proceedings. Paper 277. http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2010/277/