9 research outputs found
Embroidered stories, remembered lives: the Mogalakwena Craft Art Development Foundation storybook project
Selective harmonic elimination method for wide range of modulation indexes in multilevel inverters using ICA
Decentralised Energy Systems in Africa: Coordination and Integration of Off-Grid and Grid Power Systems—Review of Planning Tools to Identify Renewable Energy Deployment Options for Rural Electrification in Africa
Analytical Frameworks and an Integrated Approach for Mini-grid based Electrification
Although rural electrification using mini-grids has attracted recent
global attention, the concept has been there for quite some time. Consequently, a
number of analytical approaches exist to support the decision-making process.
This chapter first provides a review of literature dealing with analytical frameworks
for off-grid and mini-grid based electrification projects. The range of analytical
options includes simple worksheet-based tools to more sophisticated
optimisation tools for technology selection as well as assessments based on multicriteria
analysis. This is followed by an evaluation of mini-grid based off-grid
electrification projects in India that allows the identification of critical factors for
the success of such projects. Finally, the chapter proposes an integrated approach
for analysing decentralised mini-grid projects in a holistic manner
Misogyny posing as measurement: disrupting the feminisation crisis discourse
Feminisation discourses appear to represent nostalgia for patriarchal patterns of participation and exclusion in higher education. It is curious why this particular melancholic formulation has gained currency in the context of higher education today, raising questions about the misogynistic impulse seeking to set a ceiling on women's current success by assuming it must have come about by disadvantaging men. This paper will raise questions about the norms, values and assumptions that underpin the binaried conceptualisation, or 'mystic boundaries' between women and men. This essentialised division situates women's achievements in relation to men's putative underperformance. I wish to suggest that feminisation discourses are unsatisfactory as they work with monodimensional, stable concepts of identity, ignore intersectionality, and are parochial in so far as they fail to examine gender globally, reduce gender inequalities to quantification, and treat gender as a noun, rather than as a verb or adjective. Higher education is gendered in terms of its values, norms, processes and employment regimes, even when women are in the majority as undergraduate students