Energy, Power and Protest on the Urban Grid Energy, Power and Protest on the Urban Grid

Energy, Power and Protest on the Urban Grid

Geographies of the Electric City

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Politics & Current Events
RELEASED
2016
April 28
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
238
Pages
PUBLISHER
Taylor & Francis
SELLER
Taylor & Francis Group
SIZE
4.5
MB
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