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Energy, Power and Protest on
the Urban Grid

Providing a global overview of experiments around the transformation of cities electricity networks and the social struggles associated with this change, this book explores the centrality of electricity infrastructures in the urban configuration of social control, segregation, integration, resource access and poverty alleviation. Through multiple accounts from a range of global cities, this edited collection establishes an agenda that recognises the uneven, and often historical, geographies of urban electricity networks, prompting attempts to re-wire the infrastructure configurations of cities and predicating protest and resistance from residents and social movements alike. Through a robust theoretical engagement with established work around the politics of urban infrastructures, the book frames the transformation of electricity systems in the context of power and resistance across urban life, drawing links between environmental and social forms of sustainability. Such an agenda can provide both insight and inspiration in seeking to build fairer and more sustainable urban futures that bring electricity infrastructures to the fore of academic and policy attention.

Andrs Luque-Ayala is a postdoctoral research associate at Durham Universitys Geography Department. His research examines the emergence of a local governance of energy and the interface between urban energy systems, climate change and development modes in the global South.

Jonathan Silver is a postdoctoral research associate at Durham Universitys Geography Department. His research works at the intersection of urban infrastructure, politics and socio-environmental inequality.

Energy, Power and Protest on the Urban Grid

Geographies of the Electric City

Edited by
Andrs Luque-Ayala andM
Jonathan Silver

First published 2016
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Names: Luque-Ayala, Andrs editor.
Title: Energy, power and protest on the urban grid: geographies of the
electric city / [edited] by Andrs Luque-Ayala and Jonathan Silver.
Description: Farnham, Surrey, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, [2016] |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015034301| ISBN 9781472449009 (hardback: alk.
paper) | ISBN 9781472449016 (ebook) | ISBN 9781472449023 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Electric utilitiesPolitical aspects. | Energy
consumptionPolitical aspects. | Discrimination. | Social movements.
Classification: LCC HD9685.A2 E5757 2016 | DDC 333.793/2dc23

ISBN: 9781472449009 (hbk)
IS BN: 9781315579597 (ebk)

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Contents

by Gavin Bridge

ANDRS LUQUE-AYALA AND JONATHAN SILVER

PART I
The Uneven Geographies of Urban Energy Networks

CONOR HARRISON

ROSALINA BABOURKOVA

PART II
Rewiring the Urban Grid

FRANCESCA PILO

LAURE CRIQUI

IDALINA BAPTISTA

PART III
Social Movements and Protest in the Electric City

ARWEN COLELL AND LUISE NEUMANN-COSEL

ERIC VERDEIL

ANNE MAASSEN

GEORGIA ALEXANDRI AND VENETIA CHATZI

Editors

Andrs Luque-Ayala is a lecturer at Durham Universitys Geography Department. His research focuses on the socio-political dimensions of emerging infrastructural narratives and configurations in cities in the global South, including the emergence of a local governance of energy and the interface between digital technologies, ecological security and development modes. He holds a PhD in Geography (Durham), as well as an MSc in City Design (LSE), a Masters in Environmental Management (Yale) and first degrees in Anthropology and Political Science (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia).

Jonathan Silver is a research fellow at Durham Universitys Geography Department. His research works at the intersection of urban infrastructure, politics and socio-environmental inequality. He holds a PhD in Geography (Durham), together with an MA in Geography (University of Manchester).

Chapter Contributors

Georgia Alexandri is a postdoctoral researcher at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). She holds a PhD in Human Geography from the Department of Geography of Harokopio University (Athens) and an MSc in Sustainability and Planning (Cardiff University). Her research interests focus on gentrification, socio-spatial restructuring, financialisation of housing markets, fear of the other and social movements.

Rosalina Babourkova is a researcher with the Urban Management Program at Berlin Institute of Technology. She holds a PhD in Planning Studies and a Masters in Environment and Sustainable Development (University College London). Her research experience lies in urban infrastructures, space and subjectivities, while her current research interests relate to the imbrication of urban space, motherhood and transgression.

Idalina Baptista is Associate Professor in Urban Anthropology at the University of Oxford. Her current research focuses on the colonial and post-colonial geographies of urban energy infrastructure and urbanisation in African cities, with a special focus on Maputo, Mozambique. She holds a PhD in City and Regional Planning (UC Berkeley), a Masters in Landscape Architecture (UC Berkeley) and a BEng in Environmental Engineering (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal).

Venetia Chatzi is a PhD student of human geography at Harokopio University in Athens, Greece. Her research interests centre around urban governance, management and public space use. She has an MSc in Human Geography (Harokopio University) and a BA in International Relations and Politics (University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki). Venetia works as an executive administrator for the Green Institute in Athens and collaborates with NGOs on projects working towards the protection of the environment and promotion of intercultural dialogue.

Arwen Colell is a guest lecturer at CIEE Berlin. She studied politics in Germany, Japan and the US. Her PhD dissertation at the Environmental Policy Research Center in Berlin, supported by a Heinrich Bll Foundation scholarship, focuses on community energy projects. In the past Arwen worked for the Berlin-based energy start-up Ubitricity where she focused on the smart grid integration of electric vehicles and for the German Federal Ministry of the Environment.

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