Energy transition and extractive governance remain largely ungendered domains of analysis, despite the fact that national oil companies, energy ministries, sovereign wealth funds, and the corporate-state hybrids that govern petrostates produce durable patterns of gendered exclusion, authority, and legitimation. Feminist scholarship has extensively theorized gendered discourse, affect, and hegemony in political institutions more broadly, but has rarely turned this lens on the specific governance architecture of extraction and transition.
This panel aims to bring feminist theory into conversation with petroculture and energy transition scholarship. We invite papers examining the following and related topics:
- gendered discourses of technical expertise, stewardship, and authority in energy governance;
- the gendered affective economies (e.g., pride, gratitude, loyalty) that legitimate extractive dependence and petrostate power;
- and feminist critiques of how "transition" itself is narrated, and by whom, in petrostate and post-petrostate contexts.
The panel welcomes empirical case studies and theoretical interventions drawing on feminist IR, discourse analysis, and affect theory to interrogate how gender structures both the extractive present and the imagined transition future.
