Silver, J. and Marvin, S. (2017) Powering sub-Saharan Africa’s urban revolution: An energy transitions approach. Urban Studies, 54 (4). pp. 847-861. ISSN 0042-0980
Abstract
This paper develops a geographic understanding of urban energy transitions in subSaharan African towns and cities. In doing so this paper seeks to critically reflect on the value and limits of urban transitions analysis as a framework for understanding energy networks beyond the largely integrated systems across the Global North. We explore how these potentials and deficits can be addressed by examining promising developments across a series of debates in urban studies that can help sensitise this approach to energyscapes in the African context. By reviewing urban transi- tions analysis through these debates the paper offers four important contributions to expand existing ways of understanding energy transition. These include the particular urbanisation dynamics of African towns ands cities, the need to locate the urban across energy regimes, the agencies of various intermediaries and urban actors and the contested politics inherent in the governing of energy networks. In the conclusion we reflect on the specific directions that have emerged from the paper in relation to our contributions, offering a geographically informed framework that allows us to better examine the challenges and specificities of transition across these rapidly growing urban regions.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 SAGE Publications. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Urban Studies. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Sheffield Urban Institute |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 16 Feb 2017 16:43 |
Last Modified: | 03 Apr 2019 12:01 |
Published Version: | http://doi.org/10.1177/0042098016668105 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0042098016668105 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:112421 |