[CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #168] Charging Towards Equality: Exploring the Intersection of Electric Mobility and Gender (A. Khodke)
The Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH) & Centre for Policy Research (CPR)
are pleased to invite you to an Urban Workshop (n°168)
by
Aditi Khodke
(DPhil (PhD) candidate, Sustainable Urban Development, University of Oxford )
on
Charging Towards Equality:
Exploring the Intersection of Electric Mobility and Gender
on
Tuesday, 27 FEBRUARY 2024, at 3:45 pm IST onwards
The session will be online over ZOOM, to register kindly fill out THIS FORM
The session will also be live-streamed on the CPR Facebook page.
In case of any issues and for queries, please email: urbanization@cprindia.org
About talk: More than sixty-eight national governments consider vehicle electrification a plausible future to decarbonise transport and lower air pollution. National governments use policies to accelerate the pace of electric vehicle adoption. For example, India has set a goal to have electric vehicles account for 30% of the total vehicles sold by 2030.
At the centre of this accelerated and policy-driven transition to low-carbon technologies arises the question of ‘who benefits from a technological transition?’ A handful of studies examining electric mobility and gender suggest that the transition will unlikely benefit women unless gender inclusion is prioritised. This ongoing doctoral research project draws on empirical data from Delhi, India, to examine ‘how a policy-driven and accelerated transition to electric vehicles (EVs) can be leveraged to promote gender mainstreaming in urban transport’.
The research contributes to the ongoing discussions in sustainability transitions research (STR) on reconfiguring socio-technical regimes to be gender inclusive.
Speaker:
Aditi Khodke is a DPhil (PhD) candidate at the University of Oxford’s Sustainable Urban Development programme and a member of Kellogg College. She has over 12 years of work experience as a policy researcher and in advisory roles on climate change and urban sustainability. She holds two master’s degrees in Sustainability Science and Sustainable Urban Development from the United Nations University and the University of Oxford and a bachelor’s in architecture from the University of Pune.
This is the hundred and sixty-eight(168) in a series of Urban Workshops planned by the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), New Delhi and Centre for Policy Research (CPR). These workshops seek to provoke public discussion on issues relating to the development of the city and try to address all its facets including its administration, culture, economy, society and politics. For further information, please contact: Stéphanie Tawa Lama of CSH at tawalama@ehess.fr, Mukta Naik at mukta@cprindia.org or Marie-Hélène Zerah at marie-helene.zerah@ird.fr
