The prize committee is pleased to announce that Elliot Dolan-Evans’ article, titled ‘Pipes, profits and peace: toward a feminist political economy of gas during war’, published in the Review of International Political Economy, has won the 2024 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize.
The committee awarded the prize to this article for its exploration of urgent questions surrounding the reform of international financial institutions during conflict, energy provisioning, and its impact on women and households.
The article provides a pathway for integrating feminist political economy with energy security studies, and in doing so offers an important and valuable contribution to IPE. Building on existing theories and research, the article presents a novel perspective, supported by new empirical details from the case of gas reform in Ukraine and its adverse effects on women and households during wartime.
Dolan-Evans provides a compelling observation of a macro bias in IPE, and adopts a grounded approach to addressing this bias by integrating interview data, providing an analysis of the implications for ‘everyday’ social reproduction. The committee commends the author for their work synthesising existing empirical data and first-hand interviews, to provide strong qualitative evidence of the impacts of energy poverty on vulnerable populations.
It is for these reasons, the committee concludes that Elliot Dolan-Evans’ article deserves recognition, and we invite the broader AIPEN community to engage with the intellectual contributions of this work. Congratulations once again to Elliot!
The prize will be awarded at the AIPEN workshop in Adelaide in 2025, and the author will be invited to write a post on their winning article for the Progress in Political Economy blog.
Additionally, the prize committee would like to congratulate the authors of the three other shortlisted articles; the committee was very impressed by their work. All three articles addressed urgent and important questions in IPE. Engel and Pederson responding to urgent and substantive questions related to the IPE of public health, neoliberal restructuring, and the pandemic. Frank, Arthur, and Friel in their analysis of the interconnecting issues of planetary health, equity, and economic growth, and the growth model’s harm inducing nature. And, Morton’s juxtaposition of historical theorists, highlighting the silences of mainstream IPE/IR.
The selection committee consisted of Ainsley Elbra (USyd), Tim DiMuzio (UoW), Claire Parfitt (USyd), Annabel Dulhunty (ANU), Wenting He (ANU).
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