Introducing eco-masculinities: How a masculine discursive subject approach to the individual differences theory of gender and IT impacts an environmental informatics project

Kreps, DGP

Abstract

In this paper I introduce the concept of eco-masculinities as a philosophical and critical project to understand the links between gendered and pro-environmental behaviour. The background of the feminist project, the sociology of masculinity, and the post-gendered world to which they both aspire, alongside a brief history of the project of ecofeminism, occupy the bulk of the paper. In the last section I briefly consider how these philosophical approaches might impact upon analysis of an EU Project entitled Digital Environment Home Energy Management System.

Citation

Kreps, D. (2010, August). Introducing eco-masculinities: How a masculine discursive subject approach to the individual differences theory of gender and IT impacts an environmental informatics project. Presented at Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2010, Lima, Peru

• Presentation Conference Type: Other
• Conference Name: Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2010
• Conference Location: Lima, Peru
• Start Date: Aug 12, 2010
• End Date: Aug 16, 2010
• Publication Date: Aug 1, 2010
• Deposit Date: Oct 4, 2010
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 5, 2016
• Publisher: Association for Information Systems
• Publisher URL: http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2010/277
• Additional Information: Additional Information : Nominated for Best Paper at Conference (22 nominations out of 558 papers); Event Type : Conference; Projects : Digital Environment Home Energy Management System