Misrecognition and global socio-ecological injustices: Is a flat social ontology useful to understand energy poverty?
(2018) Workshop on Socio-Ecological Justice and Cities — Location: Erfurt (GE) (21.September.2018)
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- This paper draws on a mixed-method research on energy poverty conducted in Belgium during 5 years (2014-2018), and on a quantitative and relational analysis that has shown how energy-poor households are deprived of many capabilities (Nussbaum, 2005) as compared to other households with a better access to affordable warmth. For households living in energy poverty, defined here as households facing difficulties in their access to affordable warmth, this deprivation of capabilities generates emotions such as feeling of injustice, and/or sadness, depression, sense of emptiness, and/or shame and guilt. Their incidence is significantly higher for energy-poor people than for those who have no problem in accessing affordable warmth. This paper intends to explore conceptually how to relate these negative emotions with global socio-ecological injustices, that is how to relate the so-called ‘intimate life’ to global phaenomena by referring to Schatzki (2015)’s “flat social ontology”, instead of the multi-level perspective (niche, regime, landscape) of Rip and Kemp (1998). The empirical material is made of 20 in-depth interviews with energy-poor households in the Brussels Region and of a large-scale quantitative survey that was realised in Belgium in 2009 under the Generation and Gender Programme (GGP).
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Bartiaux, F. (2018). Misrecognition and global socio-ecological injustices: Is a flat social ontology useful to understand energy poverty? Workshop on Socio-Ecological Justice and Cities, Erfurt (GE). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/127314