This paper is concerned with how engineers working in renewable energies in Germany and Austria position themselves and their professional activity within this relatively new field of engineering occupation by mobilizing a specific androcentric construction of engineering as a symbolic resource. Drawing on qualitative interviews, the argument unfolds in three steps: First, the paper reconstructs how engineers draft an image of their professional activity by symbolically aligning it with established understandings of engineering in traditional areas of engineering occupation and by simultaneously distancing it from allegedly ‘other’ notions of engineering practice that are framed as ‘alternative’. The discursive distinction between professional engineering and its alleged ‘alternative’ counterpart constitutes the former as hard, sincere, structured, and reliable activity based on an instrumental rationality. Second, it is shown how the professional/alternative distinction is gendered with ‘the alternative’ being devaluated and feminized. Consequently, it is argued that there is an implicit association between the discursively constituted idea of professional engineering and masculinity. Third, this discursive construction of engineering is interpreted as a symbolic resource in the engineers’ claim to be recognized as professional actors within renewable energies and, thus, in their struggle for favourable positions within this social field of power.

本文关注的是德国和奥地利从事可再生能源的工程师如何通过动员特定的雄心勃勃的工程学作为一种象征性资源，在这个相对较新的工程职业领域中定位自己及其专业活动。通过定性访谈，论证分三步展开：首先，本文通过象征性地将其与传统工程职业领域对工程学的既定理解进行符号化匹配，同时使其与所谓的“其他”相距遥远，从而重构了工程师如何绘制其专业活动的图像被称为“替代”的工程实践概念。专业工程与其所谓的“替代”对应物之间的区别对待将前者视为坚硬，真诚，结构化，基于工具理性的可靠活动。其次，它说明了如何通过“替代”贬值和女性化来区分专业/替代区分。因此，有人认为，以话语构成的专业工程思想与男子气概之间存在隐含的联系。第三，这种分散的工程结构被解释为工程师声称是可再生能源中的专业角色，并因此而为在该社会动力领域中争取有利地位而奋斗的一种象征性资源。有人认为，以话语构成的专业工程思想与男子气概之间存在隐含的联系。第三，这种分散的工程结构被解释为工程师声称是可再生能源中的专业角色，并因此而为在该社会动力领域中争取有利地位而奋斗的一种象征性资源。有人认为，以话语构成的专业工程思想与男子气概之间存在隐含的联系。第三，这种分散的工程结构被解释为工程师声称是可再生能源中的专业角色，并因此而为在该社会动力领域中争取有利地位而奋斗的一种象征性资源。