Abstract
India is undergoing a rapid transition to renewable energy; the Gujarat Solar Park typifies this transition... drawing on literature from feminist political ecology, this paper demonstrates how the modalities of solar park development represent an antinomy of a nature-society relation.
New configurations of labor under the political economy of solar have produced a gendered surplus population of landless peasants ...
despite mandates of ‘gender positive’ outcomes... one such scheme for female empowerment was reserved for only women of middle-to-high class status and those of dominant castes, thereby reproducing class and caste-based social power asymmetries.
Female (dis)empowerment eclipses ‘gender positive’ guarantees of the solar park...
