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author: Stock, R. (2021).
year: 2021
title: "Bright as night: Illuminating the antinomies of `gender positive solar development"
publisher: World Development
uri: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105196
discipline: development
country: India
period: 2018
maxlength: 1
targeting: implicit
group: women
data: baseline survey, interviews
design: observational
method: quantitative survey and in-depth interviews; discourse analysis
sample: 200
unit: household
representativeness: subnational, rural
causal: 0 # 0 correlation / 1 causal
theory: authoritative knowledge power framework (Laclau&Mouffe)
limitations: no causal research
observation:
- intervention: infrastructure
institutional: 0
structural: 1
agency: 0
inequality: gender; class; spatial
type: 1 # 0 vertical / 1 horizontal
indicator: 1 # 0 absolute / 1 relative
measures: employment; empowerment
findings: insignificant increased employment probability; advantaged women predominantly belong to dominant castes
channels: project capture by village female elites; women of disadvantaged castes further excluded from training and work opportunities
direction: 1 # 0 neg / 1 pos
significance: 0 # 0 nsg / 1 msg / 2 sg
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An observational study looking at the inclusionary or exclusionary effects of the infrastructure development of a solar park in India which specifically aims to work towards micro-scale equality through regional upliftment.
The project included a training and temporary employment to local unskilled/semi-skilled labor.
It finds that the development instead impacted equality negatively, creating socio-economic exclusion and disproportionately negatively affected women of lower castes.
While acquiring basic additional skills, none of the women participating in training remained connected to the operators of the solar park and none were hired.
An insignificant amount of women from local villages were working at the solar park, of which most belonged to the the dominant caste, and the redistributive potential was stymied through capture by village female elites.
The author suggests this is an example of institutional design neglecting individual agency and structural power relations, especially intersectional inequalities between gender and caste.
The study is limited in explanatory power through its observational design, not being able to make causal inferences.